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25.01.2022 Have a Fun holiday season

24.01.2022 The speaker program for the Australian Biological Farming Conference is now available! https://www.australianbiologicalfarmingconference.org/progr

24.01.2022 A Simple Soil Science Test You can help your soil support your plants, flowers, trees, shrubs, and lawns by learning what it is made of. Testing your soil involves a simple do-at-home science experience that you can complete in an afternoon. read more here https://www.groundgrocer.com/blog/how-to-test-your-soil/

23.01.2022 Bee hotels.... great for the bees & for your garden, looks fantastic http://www.offgridworld.com/27-incredibly-beautiful-bee-ho/

22.01.2022 8 weeks until the Australian Biological Farming Conference & Expo 2018 on the Gold Coast. GroundGrocer.com will be exhibiting, so come and meet us in person! www.australianbiologicalfarmingconference.org

22.01.2022 simple & clear, Thanks Avantgardens

20.01.2022 http://www.bbc.com//f/why-soil-is-disappearing-from-farms/

19.01.2022 Get ready for International Composting Awareness Week Australia Better Soil, Better Life, Better Future Monday 5 Sunday 11 May 2014

18.01.2022 We are now selling the wonderful Dr. Elaine Inghams Compost Tea brewing Manual in our store !!! http://www.groundgrocer.com//Compost-Tea-Brewing-Manual-%2

18.01.2022 Im just finishing up at the Australian Waste and Recycling Expo - there is a major focus on how to remove the compostable components such as food waste from land fill. Many speakers and much technology to make this possible, with good government support.

17.01.2022 Approximately 50% of the rubbish Australians put in the everyday mixed-waste garbage bin could be put to better use in the garden as compost and mulch or could be returned to agricultural land to improve soil quality. Based on 25 Council audits conducted by EC Sustainable in 2011, around 33% of the rubbish is food organics (including peelings) and about 10% is garden vegetation. International Composting Awareness Week starts this Monday - what can you do ?? http://www.compostweek.com.au/core/

17.01.2022 We see fire damage above the ground far too often, though unseen, the damage below the ground is equally devastating. Often the soil life is destroyed or seriously damaged with major losses of fungal and bacterial life. The loss of soil fungi is very serious. More details - https://mailchi.mp/7a4/soil-recovery-after-fire-and-drought

14.01.2022 We will be exhibiting at Mudgee Small Farm Field Days 12 + 13 July 2019. Come and see us in the Founders Pavillion https://mudgeefielddays.com.au/

14.01.2022 Recovering Soil after Fire and Drought "Fire recovery: soil impacts and actions" A YouTube video with Nicole Masters, Agroecologist, Integrity Soils Webinar funded by Point Blue Conservation Science. Picture credit wikimedia commons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKAbDbGlV8s... We see fire damage above the ground far too often, though unseen, the damage below the ground is equally devastating. Often the soil life is destroyed or seriously damaged with major losses of fungal and bacterial life. The loss of soil fungi is very serious as it alters the soil fungal to bacterial ratio towards the bacterial end which promotes weed and annual plant growth. Extended droughts can also do the same thing and bacteria can create a waxy, water resistant layer in the soil as a last ditch effort to hold onto the last of the moisture. This results in a soil which is difficult to wet and rehydrate. To repair the damage and quickly return the soil to production or long term stable systems we need to accelerate succession and push through the weed stage by increasing the soil fungal mass and providing food for it to grow. Of course this does require some water to make the soil life happen, but if a water resistant, waxy hydrophobic layer exists, how do we break through? The secret is worms and calcium, thats how nature does it and we can promote worm and fungal life with similar foods and liquid vermicast. The calcium breaks through the waxy layers and the vermicast contains proteins and microbes which activate the soil life required to remove the wax and the bacteria that produce it. Adding long term soil life food like fish hydrolysate, kelp, molasses and humic acid will ensure the rebuilding process continues. Nicole Masters from Integrity Soils has produced the video above which goes into the process in much more detail. It proposes a very good recipe for the recovery brew but its costs may restrict its use. Where costs or area to be covered is prohibitively expensive, then the following brew should be considered as a minimum requirement. 7L Fish Hydrolysate 1kg Molasses or sugar 5L Liquid Vermicast 10L liquid lime 1L humic acid Per hectare with sufficient water to broadcast. Groundgrocer has a new liquid vermicast from Island Biologicals called BioCast+ which we have found to be very effective. It is a two part system with an activator to kick start the biology. This recovery system is also wonderful for stimulating soil biology on non drought or fire effected areas and can be the basis for compost teas, extracts and EM-1 fortified solutions. This message was originally going to promote today as world soil day http://www.fao.org/world-soil-day/en/. I hope this information will be of more value for practical ways to build and repair soil. My thoughts are with all those effected by the current fires. Mark Berndt GroundGrocer.com

14.01.2022 Compost tea is a much misunderstood product that I prefer to refer to it as Soil Pro-Biotic, rich in a high diversity of beneficial plant an soil microorganis...ms that protect your productive plants and build soil fertility. You extract organisms out of Bio-Vital compost into a solution of water and microbe foods, select aerobic organisms by the presence of oxygen and grow hundred of thousands into thousands of millions in just 24 hours ready to spray out onto you productive crops to build fertility and reduce reliance on expensive inputs. See our hands on workshop at Jamberoo Valley Farm just south of Sydney Australia in just a few weeks. contact [email protected] See more

14.01.2022 GroundGrocer.com US$ price review coming - https://mailchi.mp/b/groundgrocercom-us-price-review-coming

13.01.2022 An fantastic workshop packed with useful & hands-on information. dont miss out.

12.01.2022 Thank you everyone, 3000 trees have been planted with your help. GroundGrocer.com donates 1% of sales to Rainforest Rescue https://youtu.be/xgfMca8cZrM imagery in video Martin Stringer

12.01.2022 Reotemp thermometer and Oxytemp ensuring compost quality and safety

11.01.2022 Does Your Soil Sleep Over Winter? - https://mailchi.mp/113fbbf/does-your-soil-sleep-over-winter

11.01.2022 GroundGrocer.com has been sold to Mark Berndt and Clare Coleman from Habitat Vineyard, a boutique organic certified wine producer in Orange NSW. With years of experience in building soil life and composting, Marko said "As an existing customer of GroundGrocer.com, the acquisition was a natural fit into our stable of high quality products. I am looking forward to sharing my knowledge of soil life, composting and organic systems and connecting people with the right solutions to improve their own soil productivity and compost production at any scale. GroundGrocers supply of high quality inputs and equipment makes it easy to build top quality soil and sensational compost. I look forward working with new and existing customers to help them achieve their goals"

11.01.2022 Ground Grocer August Newsletter

10.01.2022 Top 5 composting tips: 1: Get the carbon to nitrogen ratio right. We want 30 part carbon to 1 part nitrogen, or simply 1 third green to 2 thirds brown matter. Dont forget to include manures in the green part. 2: Get the air right. To produce high quality aerobic composts which limit the production of human and plant pathogens, turn the compost often. ... 3: Watch the temperature, if it gets too hot your biological microbes can die and quality compost production will stop. Turn the compost regularly and monitor it with a thermometer probe. 4: Compost is alive and it needs water. There should be enough water to squeeze out of a handful, but not so much as it drips on its own. Top up the water if necessary at each turn and use a moisture meter if you are not sure. 5: Watch your inputs, the pile is alive so limit the inputs of known biocides such as onion, garlic, citrus, ashes and plants treated with fungicides/herbicides/pesticides or other agricultural chemicals. http://www.groundgrocer.com/pa/5-tips-for-good-compost.html

10.01.2022 Ground Grocer invites you to join us on Kiva.org and make loans to help alleviate poverty worldwide. Click on the link below to get started today! http://www.kiva.org/invitedby/uri6445

09.01.2022 EcoEconomy = sustainability & new economics, fantastic movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz2OSye6PMU

09.01.2022 Grow Food Not Lawn

08.01.2022 After experiencing living in India for several years, I can really appreciate this wonderful design idea !!!!

08.01.2022 we have updated our information page on the Foliar Food Web - you can find it in the information section of the GroundGrocer web site or direct link https://groundgrocer.com/the-foliar-food-web/

08.01.2022 What do you call it when worms take over the world? Global Worming! We are now selling COMPOST worms & weexpress post worms Australia-wide with free delivery !

07.01.2022 learn how to make Bio-Vital Compost in this video from Trust Nature

06.01.2022 I'm just finishing up at the Australian Waste and Recycling Expo - there is a major focus on how to remove the compostable components such as food waste from land fill. Many speakers and much technology to make this possible, with good government support.

04.01.2022 Here is some more information on Rainforest Rescue. 1% of GroundGrocer sales goes to replanting rainforest. https://www.abc.net.au//growing-a-rainforest-on-l/11448566

02.01.2022 6,000 lbs of food on 1/10th acre - Backyard Farm" http://youtu.be/NCmTJkZy0rM

01.01.2022 Happy 2014 for all. may you be healthy, happy & organically yummy this year. share your knowledge, your light & your passion with people around you

01.01.2022 Heirloom Vegetables & Flowers - buy seeds, grow food, save seeds & share with your family & neighbours http://www.groundgrocer.com/growing-heirloom/