Tag Archives: soil preparation

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, ...

Community Gardens Update – April 2021

Garden soil preparation begins in Stages 1-2 I’m happy to say that initial preparation on the exclusive use areas (EUAs) and community gardens is underway. This is where the soil testing and methodologies that we have been successfully undertaking in the Ecovillage demonstration garden come together to (eventually) bear fruit ...