Kōanga Booklet | Art of Composting

$15.40

If you’d really like to learn to turn carbon into humus that is capable of growing nutrient dense food that can be tested using a refractometer then this is the Booklet for you! Kay shares her experiences on making high quality compost that does actually grow soil and gives step by step instructions so that we can all do it easily!

Description

Our compost heaps are designed to:

  • Turn carbonaceous material into highly mineralised biologically active humus, capable of growing nutrient dense food.
  • Be aerobic. Essential for it to work as soil food.
  •  Make the maximum amount of high quality humus.
  • Hold the range of minerals that plants need attached to carbon, in the form of humus, making a super efficient use of the minerals that are not water soluble, so they remain in the top soil where the plant roots need them for longer. When the minerals are attached (electrically bonded) to carbon they can only be used by plants or microbes and are not water soluble and do not wash away in the rain or when watering the garden like most others.
  •  Make efficient use of the compost materials we have, especially the carbon.
  •  Include all 84 minerals our plants need in roughly the right relationships for optimal cell growth.
  •  Use mineral sources from our own back yards wherever possible in the medium term. It’s a process.
  •  Make efficient use of our time.
  •  Be easy enough for everybody to do with no expensive tools or machinery.

26 pages. Kōanga Institute Booklet, written by Kay Baxter.

E-booklet available

CONTENTS

Composting at Kōanga

Some Principles And Patterns We Are Basing Our Method On

More Patterns To Understand Before We Get To Action Time

Making Compost – Action Time

Compost Thermometers and Covers

Things To Look For As Your Heap Ages

Some Ideas For Management Guidelines

A Step By Step Process – For designing our gardens so that they produce all the high quality carbon we need to make enough compost to be growing soil and high quality plants

Process to ensure you are designing your garden and compost crops so that you have enough enough carbon to make enough compost to be building soil, and growing high quality vegetables

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