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DIY Soil Fertility – Part 3: Compost Tea
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Continue Reading: DIY Soil Fertility – Part 3: Compost TeaWhat Is Compost Tea? Compost tea is nutrient and microbe rich liquid that is aerobically brewed to maximize the number of beneficial microbes, fungi and bio-available nutrients for the soil food web and plants. Basically it’s an immune-boosting, growth-enhancing, nutrifying power drink for your garden! Why Brew Your Own Compost Tea? The benefits of regular…
DIY Soil Fertility – Part 2: Bokashi Composting System
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Continue Reading: DIY Soil Fertility – Part 2: Bokashi Composting SystemWhat Is Bokashi Composting? Bokashi is an anaerobic method of fermenting organic wastes (i.e. pickling them) – as opposed to typical aerobic thermophilic composting that decomposes organic material. Bokashi systems in this sense are more a pre-composting method, as they do not yield finished soil, but instead microbially-rich fermented food wastes that are primed for…
DIY Soil Fertility – Part 1: Vermicompost
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Continue Reading: DIY Soil Fertility – Part 1: VermicompostWhat is vermicomposting? Vermicompost systems employ compost worms (Eisenia fetida) – a.k.a. red wigglers – to transform a wide variety of organic wastes into nutrient-rich worm castings. The worms don’t actually eat the organic material – they eat the microbes that are breaking down the organic material. Why do vermicompost? The worm castings (worm poop)…
5 Tenets Of Carnivore Homesteading ~ Epi-062
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Continue Reading: 5 Tenets Of Carnivore Homesteading ~ Epi-062In today’s show we discuss the idea of the Carnivore Homestead. For those of us that eat a mostly animal-based diet, we want to produce mostly animal-based calories from our homestead production systems. I got news – just because we like to eat steak doesn’t mean we aren’t going to grow plants – in fact,…
061 – Up-Leveling Calorie Production Per Square Foot With Azolla
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Continue Reading: 061 – Up-Leveling Calorie Production Per Square Foot With AzollaToday’s episode came out of a Permies.com thread on Carnivore Homesteading. The seed questions for the thread was, for those of us enjoying the benefits of a carnivore lifestyle, how can we produce more high-quality animal-based calories for our own consumption from well designed and integrated systems at the homestead scale. Basically, there are three…
Air Pruning Beds For Healthy Tree Propagation
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Continue Reading: Air Pruning Beds For Healthy Tree PropagationDIY Air Pruning Beds – Grow Hundreds Of Trees With Well-Formed Root Structures In A Tiny Footprint What Is Air Pruning? Air pruning is a technique for developing healthy, fibrous, non-circling and non-girdling root structures in trees and and plants raised in a nursery setting that uses air to prune and shape root systems. Trees…
Autumn Equinox Break ~ Epi-60
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Continue Reading: Autumn Equinox Break ~ Epi-60Just a quick update on recent events here and announcement for taking a break until Novemeber 1st to visit family and dive into some design projects here in Tennessee and North Carolina. You can also follow Sovereign Homestead Design on YouTube. We’ve been having massive technical issues with our webhosting and emails this past month…
Sovereign Food Systems – Pantry Ponds ~ Epi-59
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Continue Reading: Sovereign Food Systems – Pantry Ponds ~ Epi-59Today we look at another Sovereign Food System – what I’m calling the Pantry Pond. Basically a homestead-scale aquaculture system designed to maximize your food sovereignty via independence from the centralized systems of supply and distribution for any of the inputs required to grow what you want to grow – fish, aquatic vegetables, crawfish, shrimp,…
Sovereign Food Systems – Perennial Protein From Silvopasture Meat Forests ~Epi-58
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Continue Reading: Sovereign Food Systems – Perennial Protein From Silvopasture Meat Forests ~Epi-58In today’s show we are talking about creating Sovereign Food Systems. I think this will be a series, or at least a collection of episodes, each one focused on a different type of sovereign food system that can be applied at a variety of scales across a broad range of contexts. Basically, a sovereign food…
Permaculture Design Principle Deep Dive #12 – Collaborate With Succession ~ Epi-057
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Continue Reading: Permaculture Design Principle Deep Dive #12 – Collaborate With Succession ~ Epi-057Today we discuss permaculture design principle #12 – Collaborate With Succession. The more that we can align our designs, systems and management styles with the inherent successional trends already present in our landscapes, the greater our yields will be with fewer resource inputs required. This is all about energy efficiency, and it starts with OBSERVING…
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