The Biodynamic Consultancy Society (Inc)

Compost making

Cropping

Soil Tests

Dairy Farming

Field Days

Compost


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Compost heap ingredients - a free draining twiggy layer is being shaped for the base of the heap.

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Putting together a tree crop compost heap, rich in woody materials. Sawdust, seaweed, pine litter, organic chicken dung, light shelter trimmings.

compost_preps.jpg (44071 bytes) Biodynamic compost preps rolled within balls of mature compost

 

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Compost balls are inserted into holes probed towards the middle of the heap

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Coarse woody mulch under an avocado tree, regularly replenished to replicate the fungal rain forest soil environment

P1010095.jpg (79629 bytes) A 15 year old avocado tree cut to a stump showing two years of re-growth

 




Secretary: Marion Koppenol, RD 1, Hastings
Ph: (06) 874 9064 -
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