Sam Baker from Wrigglebrew and I talk about soil health, and what does nitrogen poisoning look like?

• My leaves turned brown, despite enough watering. Maybe I gave them too much nitrogen?
• Overuse of phosphorus causes plants to not be able to uptake zinc, magnesium, calcium. That's another reason why our food is mineral deficient.
• Wrigglebrew is even used by soy farmers to reduce their nitrogen load and move a little more toward regenerative farming methods.
• Compost tea only has a shelf life of 24-48 hours. How does Wrigglebrew maintain the flora and be shelf stable?
• Sam also shares about Wrigglebrew's research - a scientific gov't grant to use worms to digest plastic.

Wrigglebrew is a fertilizer made from worm castings, but it goes farther by adding helpful soil bacteria, mycorrhizae, and mycelium. The mycelium is a species that will not grow into mushrooms, if that is a concern. You can use it as soil fertilizer or foliar feed spray. Wrigglebrew started as a project at the University of Central Florida (UCF) to offer a solution to combat the nitrogen runoff that causes red tide - algae bloom in the Gulf (of America).

Episode show notes: Ep. 162 - Talking Soil Health with Sam Baker from Wrigglebrew

Times are tough. You want to be more self sufficient and grow more food, with enough to share with family and friends or even sell some of that surplus.

You've heard of this "food forest" thing, but it's so overwhelming to get started. I can help.

My Thriving Food Forest Design can help you realize your dreams of an edible foodscape or perennial paradise that will come back every year so you can grow more food and be more self sufficient. Schedule your FREE Discovery call with me at Thriving Food Forest.

Grow Nut Trees still has chestnuts, hazelnuts, comfrey. Get them planted before Summer!

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How I turned my pasture of thorny Callery pears into an Asian pear orchard by bark grafting and cleft grating.

Do a Google search on Callery pears and feel the hatred.

Bradford pears, planted nearly everywhere, are usually grafted onto Callery pear rootstock. Callery pears are thorny pears that I have never seen growing any fruit. On my land they spread by suckers - literally everwhere.

In this episode I share about How I turned my pasture of thorny Callery pears into an Asian pear orchard by bark grafting and cleft grating.

Check out the show notes for the pictures of how I did this.

Times are tough. You want to be more self sufficient and grow more food, with enough to share with family and friends or even sell some of that surplus.

You've heard of this "food forest" thing, but it's so overwhelming to get started. I can help.

My Thriving Food Forest Design can help you realize your dreams of an edible foodscape or perennial paradise that will come back every year so you can grow more food and be more self sufficient. Schedule your FREE Discovery call with me at Thriving Food Forest.

Grow Nut Trees still has chestnuts, hazelnuts, comfrey. Get them planted before Summer!

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Jamon Mysliwiec joins me to share about TIAG - The Independent American Gardener, an online to in-real-life community, teaching permaculture and self-sufficiency through regenerative community.

The goal is to move to a closed-loop economy, with communities producing surplus, leveraging home based small businesses, and creating a barter and trade network for the surplus.

Jamon started Lulu's Garden, the first Demonstration Hub in Trenton, MO, and has bought a commercial property which will have a rooftop garden, greenhouse, a food forest, and to trade surplus through a farmers market type model.

He also shares about his new off grid property and soon-to-be-Demonstration Hub in SW Missouri.

Show notes for this episode: Ep. 160 - Creating Community with Jamon - The Independent American Gardener

Grow Nut Trees is now taking orders for Spring shipping or local pickup.

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NEW for this year are more types of chestnuts, including Qing Chinese hybrid chestnut seedlings. The Qing tree is a heavy producer with sweet flavored extra large nuts. These seedlings were grown locally and are adapted to the Midwest.

Thriving Food Forest Design:

We can create an edible foodscape, an orchard, or perennial kitchen garden so you can grow more food and be more self sufficient. We use fruit and nut trees and perennial plants adapted to the Midwest to create a low maintenance food forest.

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