Primary Palette: Three Powerful Plant-Sourced Pigments Last year, in preparation for my Waste Not Urine blog and workshop I wrote a lot about Japanese Indigo and how regular application of diluted urine can significantly improve growth rate and lead to more frequent harvesting. I talked about the multi-step process of pigment extraction, and the historically […]
This post documents our work using urine as a primary nutrient in hydroponic systems. It is a part of a series of blog posts exploring the historical and modern applications for human urine. Part 1 is available here. Part 2 is available here. Three years ago, in the early spring, I bought two […]
Waste not: Urine – Part 2: The Indigo Sig Vat This post is part of a series exploring the historical and modern applications for human urine. Part 1 is available here. At the end of the previous post I left off with a short anecdote about how last year I set out to grow my […]
In his posthumously published 1911 work Farmers of Forty Centuries, USDA agronomist F. H. King documents his travels studying the intensive agriculture of China, Korea and Japan. Multiple references are made to the efforts of farmers and city-dwellers alike to collect and distribute human waste to nearby farms as a valuable source of ongoing fertility: […]
From last year’s Cooking with Food Waste workshop to the upcoming installment of the developing Waste Not series, Living Web Farms is making a point to not only reduce waste, but help change the perspective on waste all together. There is no waste in nature. As agriculturalists, there is great importance in studying farming practices […]
Like everyone else, Living Web Farms is adapting to the changing circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic. Expanded farm operations and food donations are now top priority. We’ve started a new short-form, rough-edit video series for sharing immediately relevant information and a few weeks ago we offered our first of should be many free webcast workshops. […]
In the fall of last year I led a short workshop covering some homestead applications of common wood stove ashes. It was the first of what I hope will become one of many “Waste Not:” workshops hosted out of the Living Web Farms’ biochar facility. Later this year I’ll discuss the myriad applications – of […]
It’s been over a year since our last blog post, but the Biochar Facility at Living Web Farms is still a busy place. In addition to keeping our batch biochar retort system in production we’re constantly exploring the nexus of all things sustainable technology and regenerative agriculture. Our 2020 workshops are covering a boggling […]
Part One available here The nexus of appropriate technology, circular economy and agriculture is a buffet of challenging, interesting projects. In 2017 and 2018, our continued work in biochar and gasification, and among other esoteric projects, our work with small-scale plastic recycling, – not to mention organizing the WNC Repair Cafe project – have kept […]
Save for our WNC Repair Cafe project, and a handful of appropriate technology workshops, we’ve been pretty quiet over here at the biochar facility for a little while now. Lately, most of our work has centered on upgrading the liquid components of our method of biochar production: we’re going deeper with our research in wood […]
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