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Hey Christopher, your growing conditions sound similar to ours in Paso Robles, CA. High pH, calcareous soils in an arid region. I am jealous of your free reign to go wild in your vineyard! Its quite the challenge to incorporate unconventional practices on vineyards that are owned by other people… How have your cover cropping…
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Average pH of soil is 8.2+ (some places it’s 9, not in my vineyard). Average yearly rainfall is ~12″-14″. I’ve now catalogued nearly 40 species of plants across 4 functional groups that have quite literally cropped up out of the soil seed back after applying biology, native and introduced. Of chief interest to me is the 3-4 varieties…
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can’t edit comments anymore? I meant to say “soil seed bank”
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Tucker Robertson replied to the discussion winegrape YAN values and SAP N-Total Nitrogen in the forum Fruit and Nuts a year ago
Reply to winegrape YAN values and SAP N-Total Nitrogen
I would encourage you to look into the work of Graeme Sait. He is an Australian agronomist who own Nutri-Tech Solutions and presents around the world through his Nutrition Farming seminars. He has an absurd mind that stores an immense amount of information, so you will find his material to be very, very dense. He has an excellent podcast…
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New here, Did the soil food web fundamentals a few years ago, but haven’t really been able to dig into it that much. Working through Matt Power’s microscopy course as well. Primary energy has been going into building and setting up my off-grid property, with what was originally intended to be the “shed to library/classroom/microscopy lab”, but…
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David replied to the discussion Electroculture in the forum Regenerative Agriculture a year ago
While I’m not going to discount it out of hand, as many things which were once considered “woo woo” are now generally accepted (remember the “wee beasties” which we now understand to be entire eco-systems of microorganisms?) My experience as a Ham Radio operator and non-professional electrical work across many disciplines, make me quite…
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Regrarians #BeforeTheFire & #AfterTheFire Resources
~ #BeforeTheFire – http://www.regrarians.org/ron/ron-climate/beforethefire-resources/
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~ #AfterTheFire – http://www.regrarians.org/off-the-contour-19-after-the-fire/
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