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Episode 225. Compost, Is it Really Necessary?

This is the World Organic News for the week ending 3rd of  August 2020.

Jon Moore reporting!

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I’m just going to say it: I think the time and effort required to make compost is wasted.

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Let me explain. Over the past twelve months I’ve been setting up a market garden at work, a disability service. We were fortunate to have been donated some spent mushroom compost and this was great for ten no-dig raised beds. There was enough over for about 200 m2 to put in sweet corn but this still left 800 m2 without compost or any other organic matter to be added to the soil. Continue reading →

Episode 200. First Principles Continued: Soil

This is the World Organic News for the week ending 27th of January 2020.

Jon Moore reporting!

Decarbonise the air, recarbonise the soil!

A little housekeeping: A big shout out the Len, a Londoner living in sunny Spain. Thanks for the feedback man, really appreciated.

As you would have heard, this is episode 200. Next Saturday will be the fourth birthday of World Organic News. If you look on Libsyn you’ll see the 31st of January 2016 as our start date but that’s a time zone thing. The First of Feb it is. A big thank you to everyone who’s listened during those four years. There have been moments when I’ve wondered if I was making any headway and every time I’ve reached that point someone across this beautiful planet has reached out and kept me going, even if they didn’t realise it at the time. So a great big thank you once again for listening and let’s kick on for the next four years! Continue reading →