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Large-scale, no-turn composting for multitudes of microbes

By Pam Gunnell, future Ecovillage resident Those of us at the Friday morning demonstration garden working bee last week were treated to a demonstration by Mark Tupman of how to make a Johnson-Su bioreactor composter. The name comes from the inventors of this method of making compost, Dr David Johnson, ...

Flourishing polycultures at work

Garden Update – February 2021 It’s been a couple of years since we first started on the Kikuyu patch that is now our demonstration garden. Over a steady procession of stages through the seasons it has been transformed into a whole new productive ecosystem showing that you can quite rapidly ...

Making black gold

If you’ve been following the Ecovillage horticultural updates, you’re probably well aware of how much we value good compost. As such, in our demonstration gardens we have been making and trialling a few different systems to test the quality of compost made and ease of use. Firstly, what do we use ...