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What percentage sugar would you have to add to tie your all the nitrogen? You say “ it would be incredibly powerful to do that”.. I have a lot of sugarcane I’m going to juice and I want to use it to frigate. Roughly what ratio of sugar to nitrogen would one need? 1:1? 10:1 sugar to nitrogen? Thanks.
This is so interesting. I just found out about John Kempf by listening to his interview with Kennedy and decided to check him out. I just substitute the word PLANT OR CROP for Human and regeneration farming could apply to both at t his stage of the game. I shall listen to all the other podcasts and learn what I can. Thank you both so much. I am not a farmer but I have a tiny Housing Association triangle of land with terrible sandy soil yet still I attempt to grow roses and herbs. It's hard work so am hoping to learn something on this channel. Amen to that!
Blue cornflower is centaurea cyanus is a common weed in cereal crops (hence its name). I use it a lot in cover crop mixes. Here in north German it is also winter hard. It's not small though. It's a tall deep rooted herb.
Hey Kieth, casually mention to your neighbor that anhydrous ammonia was used in WWII to harden dirt runways so bombers could land on them without sinking in! Why transport a dangerous material thousands of miles past submarines and dive bombers in the teeth of a world wide transport shortage? It hardens dirt better than anything else.
I’ve had the same thought on flooding with the Umatilla River. We’ve lost the water infiltration in the Blue mountains and foothills and now we have this
For anyone wondering the seed saving presentation mentioned can be found as "How and why we save seeds - John Kempf" on the channel Sustainable Development Solutions. I'm one of those people who follows John into the far corners of the internet. 😂
You may also figure out that what you've done/are doing is better than what everyone else has told you to do. Every context is different and maybe they don't know everything - even the experts - even the regen experts. Keep trying things that make sense in your context, you'll be surprised what you'll come up with. Also, nature/weather is not static from year to year. What worked last year may not work this year. I am constantly surprised that every year some (different) plants yield spectacular results and others (with previous success) just fail. Often, I had made some minor (laziness) or major (experimental) tweak and that was all it took. The smallest details matter sometimes.
Kieth, would you be interested in someone grazing a cover crop? My thought is to work with Green Cover Seeds to create a diverse cover suited to our area
This got me going as a manager that worries about invasive perennials such as smooth brome, cedars/junipers, old world bluestem. They seem to be a giant highly tuned and trained network to mitigate something we've done on a landscape level. We fight these increasers back with grazing, fire, and mechanical disturbance to try and develop more "diverse and resilient habitats" we never get them all though. So those neurological links we missed that remain below ground will continue to learn around our "management" and migrate wherever they see themselves needed? Maybe we need to let the invasion happen?!
"intention" = listening to our MICROBES & then doing what they tell us to do because the microbes build us each for a reason & we all POPPED up in this garden like our plants do :-) "intention" = We hear the microbes & we do what the microbes ask us to do = intuition = instinct 🙂
"As long as we're growing from seed we'll be Ok" - Nick Mahmood (because we'll be Growing food as medicine & Growing plants as medicine "chemical free" = our EXISTENTIAL Activities & one reason we are here in this mortal life) 🙂
"spiritual" spoken can mean "microbial" :-) Yeshua, for example, was a "chemical free" Natural Farmer 🙂 The greater the variety of plants in our gardens, the greater the variety of MICROBES :-) Animism & Shintoism: a microbe behind every molecule 🙂
In other words, connect to the MICROBIAL INTERNET with botanical medicines grown by MICROBES because the MICROBES are God/Allah/The Buddha/Mother Nature/Mother Earth 🙂
Very interesting. We have lots of changes in the wild plants growing here this year. Lots of chicory and lots of purslane, fennel, dandelions we usually always get these but more this year, and red fescue and some other grasses. Lots of onion grass. We have less nettles, lambs quater etc but they are still present too but the amount of purslane is off the scale this year. Its delicious so not a problem and it grows low so is covering the soil from the baking UV. This podcast goes someway to helping me understand why we have these changes. Its.been a drought year so makes sense there are more deep rooting plants
Reminds me of 'Fertility Farming - Newman Turner -- 1951'. Which introduced the idea of weeds as a cover crop, now there's a topic for John Kempf "Weeds The Ideal Cover Crop" 🙂
Plant consciousness & intelligence like with humans is MICROBIAL 🙂 "intention" is listening to what the microbes tell us what to do 🙂 "What a plant knows" explains how plants are SENTIENT BEINGS if we do NOT use chemicals to grow them: chemicals turn plants into drugged addicted slaves 😞
So nice to see this subject get more airing. I discovered plants were intelligent - far more intelligent than humans - as a small child more years ago than I care to count and as a result have always gone to them for advice instead of people. It’s perfectly possible to engage in telepathic conversations with them. I have learned infinitely more about the workings of Life, the Universe and Everything from trees than anything I learned studying biology at university, most of which doesn’t even examine the fundamental question of what Life IS. It really is astounding what a stupid blinkered and hubristic species we are!
I saw the movie Avatar. I was so excited to realise that somebody else could see that everything is connected. Here is further knowledge of this. If only we could communicate better with all other life forms. I see in my garden that plants respond positively to my good intentions toward them, versus no thought given at all.
Many don’t realize that humans contain the same mycorrhizal fungal network that trees contain (see the work of Paul Stamets). It’s truly incredible the feeling of connectivity I feel when walking my property when I send the energy and intention and receive it in turn.
Every time I listen to these podcasts, I learn something new. Every day, I grow closer to my garden as I witness the subtle changes. The things mentioned in this podcast were things I already knew in my gut. Perhaps it was my gut biome that was speaking to me.
