Broad Beans
Fi Morgan, Bellingen Food Gardening, sourced from I Love Bello Shire, 29th June 2021, with thanks. Vicia faba is known as fava or faba bean. This bean is used as both a human and animal food, and as a green manure crop. “The broad bean plant is suited to regions of >500 mm rainfall to […]
A rationale for applying the biodynamic preparations in the form of Soil Activator
John Hodgkinson According to the late Hugh Courtney, biodynamic guru and founder of the Josephine Porter Institute in the US, the respiritualisation of the Earth is one of the most pressing tasks for humanity. Cosmic energies necessary for life on Earth are being increasingly shielded by human generated electromagnetic radiations (EMRs), for example mobile phone […]
Biodiversity – a short essay
John Hodgkinson The benefits of incorporating or expanding biodiversity on your farm or in your garden include enhancing soil health and structure, establishing or encouraging insect and animal (especially bird) habitat, enabling biological pest control, building more efficient nutrient recycling, increasing resistance to soil erosion, reducing synthetic and fossil fuel based fertilizer use, and slowing […]