Future Feeders

Future Feeders Blog

Thoughts, insights and experiences from the FF team

Share your insights on our soil!

14/11/2014

1 Comment

 
“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.”  ― Wendell Berry.
Picture
We recently engaged the Environmental Analysis Laboratory (EAL) at Lismore to test two soil samples from the east and west wing of our 1.5 acre market garden site at the Mullumbimby Community Gardens. 

Firstly, we'd like to offer a massive thank you to the EAL for supporting Future Feeders and sponsoring the cost of the tests. After hearing Laboratory manager Graham Lancaster speak  about the importance of understanding your soil we thought it was high time we got to know our soils and little better. EAL offer an innovative service that aims to enable producers to reduce their dependence on inorganic fertiliser. They recognise that maintaining healthy soil is the key to sustaining biological diversity. 

Now our test results are in and we'd love to hear your insights for how we might best remediate our soils. Soil samples offer a neat snapshot of what soil is made up of but there is no magic formula for how to correct those deficiencies. Check out our results below and let us know what you think here or by shooting us an email at farm@futurefeeders.org. 



1 Comment
tim poole
8/12/2014 05:14:39 am

Would like to see the soil test results

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Future Feeders Team

    Archives

    August 2016
    June 2016
    April 2016
    March 2015
    January 2015
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014

    Categories

    All
    Banana
    Beyond Farm To Table
    Chuffed
    CSA
    Dan Barber
    Fair Food Week
    First Harvest
    Fundraising
    Heenandoherty
    Joel Salatin
    Macadamia
    Mentors
    #myfoodstory
    Paw Paw
    Seed Saving
    Soil
    SpeedSeed Dating
    The Goodness Inc
    The Third Plate: Field Notes On The Future Of Food
    Worm

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.