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Comment on Episode #122: Inadvertently Organic by Control What You Spend - Agroinnovations.com

Control What You Spend - Agroinnovations.com — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:50:16 +0000

[...] great quote from my interview with Holistic Management practitioner Walt Davis. Another interview with Walt is in the pipeline, so stay tuned. Thanks to the blog dig this / [...]

Comment on Episode #129: Merry Christmas, Monsanto by J Zannoni

J Zannoni — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:41:06 +0000

! So happy to check in on agroinnovations and see the podcasts have returned! Thanks so much for these informative and engaging sessions. You enhance my workday!

Comment on Episode #129: Merry Christmas, Monsanto by Aaron Joslin

Aaron Joslin — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:36:12 +0000

Awesome Frank. Perhaps you can include info about how India is suing Monsanto for stealing eggplant genetics from its homeland.
Monsanto etc.’s antics are quite horrifying and galling, but my hope is that the uprising in consciousness spearheaded by OWS will turn people towards local food rather than corporate food.
peace

Comment on Episode #30: Open Farm Tech with Marcin Jakubowski by The Growing Fabrication of Anarchie Permaculture Research Institute

The Growing Fabrication of Anarchie Permaculture Research Institute — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:19:25 +0000

[...] machines to be able to be produced from a minimal set of self-replicating machines. Listening to Frank Aragona’s interview with Marcin Jakubowski in 2008 was what first interested me in the possibility of low energy, high tech fabrication within [...]

Comment on Episode #128: Biodynamic Agriculture by Roberto

Roberto — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:14:56 +0000

In the interview Hugh is saying that there are not tools for biodynamic preps and compost quality. What about to your chromatography?
And about the preps, I think the biofertilizers are exactly the same thing of the biodynamic concoctions, but the difference is that for those there is nobody willing to “unveil” the chemistry, and instead seems to exist the will to keep the Steiner’s voodoo mystery kida style.

Comment on Episode #16: An Introduction to Mushroom Mycelium with Paul Stamets (Part I) by Mycelium Running | Agroinnovations

Mycelium Running | Agroinnovations — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 01:06:02 +0000

[...] In a recent interview on the Agroinnovations Podcast, Paul Stamets, mycologist and ecological pioneer, had this to say: “There’s a form of biological racism, unfortunately, that I have been confronting all of my life. And, people are prejudiced against mushrooms. You say mushrooms and people think of either portobellos or magic mushrooms. But very few people have any clue that we evolved from fungi, and fungi are our ancestors.” [...]

Comment on Episode #71: The Story of a Bolivian Farmer by The Story of a Bolivian Farmer | Agroinnovations

The Story of a Bolivian Farmer | Agroinnovations — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 01:05:01 +0000

[...] Episode #71 of the Agroinnovations Podcast is reproduced here in the video section of the Agroinnovations Blog. [...]

Comment on Episode #106: The One Straw Revolution by Permaculture Jiu-jitsu

Permaculture Jiu-jitsu — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 06:29:18 +0000

Fukuoka has dozens of successors and followers all over Japan. Some of them worked together with Fukuoka but more are inspired by his books.

Probably most famous guy these days is Akinori Kimura, who grows mainly apples in Aomori, North Japan.

Comment on Episode #84: Red Worm Composting (Part I) by Hala

Hala — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 04:16:39 +0000

some notes on the podcast. Nice practical information! Earthworms require both oxygen and water, which they absorb through their skin. The published optimal moisture level in earthworm medium is 75%.
To make sure the required oxygen can diffuse throughout the medium, earthworms and their medium need to be placed in something that looks like a thick porous cartridge, think milk crates! The porous walls of a milk crate (lined with a 4 mm screen) allow the needed air in. The material needs to be regularly watered since all this air diffusion will dry it. This is achieved through drip irrigation. The porous milk crate would drain any excess water. The paper medium mentioned here is a good balance if you’re adding high nitrogen (food waste), because earthworms have an ideal C:N ratio of 25 in their feed. Research has shown however that pre-composting for 2 weeks then vermicasting achieves the highest mineralization and fast turn over rate.

I have achieved a turn over rate of 3 days per milk crate content in 2 weeks old compost (unfinished compost) by using this system. More importantly it can be build by retrofitting cheap milk crates. I”m fine-tuning the retrofit kit after which I’ll be happy to share it.

Comment on Episode #84: Red Worm Composting (Part I) by Hala

Hala — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 03:42:33 +0000

Nice podscast. This practice was taken over by pseudo scientists for a while, but many real researchers studied it as well.
An Ontario Government Facsheet on vermicasting summarizes the published science of vermicasting (vermicomposting): http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/engineer/facts/10-009.htm

Freeware (free excel applications) at http://www.urbanfarmsorganic.com/applications.html
will help you automatically optimize your vermicasting bin.