Workshops on Kumbartcho Farm
It all starts with the water.
One of the new workshops we have created is working with the laser level learning how to create the swales for maximum water retention.
Looks easy, but can be quite tricky until you understand the way to move the soil so that you get water retention on both sides of the swale. Easy when you know how.
Biodynamics and BD500
Once you have sorted out the water, learning about Biodynamics and how to regenerate the landscape is beneficial to the state of the soils. Increase the soil carbon content, microbial activity and worm population.
Get you cowhorns ready.
Increasing Grass and Tree Diversity
Wrap your head around Syntropic Gardening, chop and drop. The tried and true way of increasing your ground cover. Remove those bare patches in the landscape. Not by doing more work, but working with the land the way Nature looked after the place before we got seduced by Big Ag and chemicals.
The S.T.U.N. Principal.
This one was pinched from Mark Shepard. It was that good I had to repeat it a number of times, to make sure I remembered it. Shear Total Utter Neglect.
It is a principal that he uses to develop the best trees, cattle, grasses and vegetables for his location. He oversows or overgrows, and whatever survives even though neglected becomes the source for next generation.
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The Ultimate Composting Course$220.00 -
Farm and Garden Regeneration 1$340.00
Farmer’s Best Friend – the Earth Worm
I guess you were thinking that a dog is man’s best friend. But this is a farmer’s best friend. It is an extract from a book that was written back in 1945 and is now out of copyright. It can be found as a pdf and this is a link to it. Friend Sykes When…
Walter Jehne | The Australian Einstein of the Soil Carbon Sponge
Soil carbon sponge (or soil sponge) is porous, well-aggregated soil in good health, better able to absorb and retain water. Australian microbiologist and climatologist, Walter Jehne, articulated the concept of the soil carbon sponge in his 2017 paper, Regenerate Earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQGpLctpFLA The video is shot in what looks like a local hall and the acoustics…