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Part Nakota, part Irish. The Nakota took over long ago but still lives in two worlds, the European world and the first people's world. He lives on a small (15 + acres) piece of mother earth deep in the woods. Was trained in the cooper's arts as a child, since the family owned a cooperage. He has been a carpenter, and timber wright but love all aspects of farming.He holds a BS in Chemistry and Biology and a MS in Horticulture. Worked for the USDA for 16 years. Then PHD in Microbiology defended. Redhawk and his wife Wolf are setting up to be fully self sustaining, growing all their own foods and collecting rain water. "Soon we will be self sustaining and closer to being off the grid" he said when asked about future plans. They continue their own research both in Agriculture and soils with the hope to make the world more like it used to be, before mankind began screwing up the Earth Mother. This is the only way humankind will survive, we must fix what we have broken.
Pollinator Scavenger Hunt
First Scavenger Hunt
Marco Banks wrote:
I wish there were some way to calculate how much N has been kept in the system down through the years by faithfully taking a leak in the orchard. My guess, at this point, is hundreds of pounds of N, with significantly less K and P, although measurable none-the-less. If the NKP of human urine (as it's been reported) is 11-1-2, there are hundreds of dollars worth of free fertility being added to the garden annually.
Jason Hernandez wrote:So, what levels of chlorine residuals are harmful to soil? As with everything, "the poison is in the dose;" a lot of toxic materials occur naturally in trace amounts, and only become problematic when the amounts become too high.
As an example, here are some stats from the City of American Canyon, California:
Substance Units MRDL MRDLG Average Range Contaminant Sources
Chlorine ppm 4.0 4.0 0.68 0.10 – 1.48 Drinking water disinfectant added for treatment
Now, how many of us can translate that into useful information about watering our plants?
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