Category: Methods

  • Growing Mushrooms In The Forest

    Growing Mushrooms In The Forest

    Log-based Mushroom Culture Preparing Logs Mushrooms can be grown on freshly cut, inoculated logs within a natural woodland setting. Logs are recommended to be cut in late winter to early spring and inoculated shortly thereafter. There are many methods to inoculate logs, some of which work better for different types of culinary or medicinal mushrooms.…

  • Constructed Wetlands Primer For Black & Greywater Treatment

    What Are Constructed Wetlands? Constructed wetlands are built to use biology in the purification and clarification of blackwater and greywater effluents generated by human settlement. They are built to mimic the function of actual wetland ecologies, but in a way to prevent premature discharge of effluent waters to the environment. Where Are Constructed Wetlands Appropriate?…

  • Grow Food, Fodder, Fences And Forts For Cheap With Livestaking ~Epi-072

    Today’s episode is a short primer on live staking – what it is, how it works, what its good for, what types of species you can use to do it, and how to harvest, prepare and plant your live stakes. If you have perennially moist soils in need of stabilization, or are able to irrigate…

  • All About Live Staking

    What Is Live Staking? Live staking is a tree establishment method by which small-diameter branches or certain tree or shrub species can be pushed, dug or pounded into wet, perennially moist or irrigated soils prior to bud break, where they will strike root and become an entirely new tree or shrub. How Does Live Staking…

  • Using Duckweed To Grow More Calories Per Square Foot ~ Epi-064

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