The Art of Composting – Kay Baxter, Koanga
$18.00
If you’d really like to learn to turn carbon into humus that is capable of growing nutrient-dense food that can be tested using a refractometer then this is the Booklet for you! Kay shares her experiences on making high-quality compost that does actually grow soil and gives step-by-step instructions so that we can all do it easily!
Pages: 26, printed and bound in NZ
So you’re interested in beginning a garden, congratulations! If you have a bit of extra space in your backyard or on your balcony, growing your own food is an awesome idea and will save you some money long term too! Kay Baxter
I believe so strongly in supporting the work Kay and the team have done for Aotearoa, that
I am donating all profits from the sale of Koanga seeds and publications straight back to them, as an acknowledgement of the hard work they have done for our community over the past 30+ years!
Out of stock
Description
Kay has been a gardener for as long as she can remember. She is well known as the founder of the Koanga Institute, a charitable trust dedicated to saving our heirloom food plants and supporting gardeners to use them in their lives again.
Koanga compost heaps are designed to:
- Turn carbonaceous material into highly mineralised biologically active humus, capable of growing nutrient-dense food.
- Be aerobic… essential for it to work as soil food.
- Make the maximum amount of high-quality humus.
- Hold the range of minerals that plants need attatched to carbon, in the form of humus, making super efficient use of the minerals that are not water soluble, so they remain in the topsoil where the plant roots need them for longer. When the minerals are attached (electrically bonded) to carbon they can only be used by plants or microbes and are not water soluble and do not wash away in the rain or when watering the garden like most others.
- Make efficient use of the compost materials we have, especially the carbon.
- Include all 84 minerals our plants need in roughly the right relationships for optimal cell growth.
- Use mineral sources from our own back yards wherever possible in the medium term… it’s a process.
- Make efficient use of our time.
- Be easy enough for everybody to do with no expensive tools or machinery.
26 pages. Koanga Institute Booklet written by Kay Baxter.
KOANGA is the home of New Zealand’s largest heritage food plant collection.
Their goal is to inspire and support your journey in regenerative living. Read our blog post for more information or look at their website for more seeds and heaps of educational material.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.