Compost Farming Hestel Tellus: "Miracle Needed To End Drought"

From The Portugal News.
BY BRENDAN DE BEER, IN NEWS · 02-11-2017

"The current rainfall across much of mainland Portugal, which is due to stop from Sunday, will not be sufficient to end the current drought, Portugal’s Environment Minister has warned. This was followed by the chairman of the Portuguese Met Office, saying that a “November miracle” was required to end the drought."

And on IPMA...

Bad news...

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Stella.

Our soil is fertile!

compost is not a fertilizer. It is a precondition for soil activity.

The relationship between soil and fertility is always linked to the available supply of organic matter. Organic matter brings both oxygen and soil fertility to the soil. 'Soil fertility' actually is 'soil activity', is 'soil organisms'. Soil organisms 'consume' the stone dust content of the soil and make the minerals in the soil available to plant life. In this, organic matter is an intermediate. Soil, in fact, is a mutable interplay between stone dust, organic matter, oxygen and water... Where the work is done by microbes (by bacteria)...

To start with...

Why immerse materials before composting? "What I want is to wet the material in such way, that the bacteria are able to get a 'grip' on the hay. Good grip on both the waxy layer of the plant as well on the pile itself..."

The great immersion barrel picture show! ...in images.

How a blade of grass gave birth to a been... A fairy tale that tells us what is going on in a compost pile.

Microbiology for dummies. About cellulose, C/N numbers and digestibility.

This hay is great stuff for composting!
About volume, organic matter and manure.

Method and Technique...

Opinion and facts...

Bacterium in the soil: It looks like war

Stone Dust, Stardust. We have to change our mindset about the nature of the fertility of our topsoil.

Old knowledge. New insights.

Microbiologists Gerretsen and

Elaine Ingham.

Dr. Elaine Ingham versus the Beccari Cells:
When it comes to composting she is not talking about composting grasses...

The volcano which should erupt. In fact, we can better skip this time of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, as a catastrophic mistake.

Soil for brains. About dirty hands and clean soil.

Practice makes perfect...

Finally a good solution for the composting of garden and kitchen waste. September 2016. January and July 2017.

Mowing Season 2016. As this mowing season had just begun, it had already ended. This year it all went very quickly, thanks to this mechanization Hendrik had included...

Our compost storage. February 2016. About structure and mixing.

Rich in oxygen and oxygen poor September 2015.

Air helps the ripening proces. December 2014. Composting is like making cheese...

Summer. August 2014... the nutrients the fungi have captured come but difficult at the disposal of the soil.

A new Season. June 2014. About grasses and hay.

Water and Soil Activity. June 2014.
Experiences with compost in raised beds and pots.

Numbers and what is behind it. March 2014. About simplicity and how to get there. And more news from 2017.

Compost Farming Hestel Tellus

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vrijdag 3 november 2017

"Miracle Needed To End Drought"

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