We are growing plants and animals without chemicals or pesticides!
We have an organic farm project we use to teach indigent families low cost productivity solutions to agricutural problems. It includes all the fundementals of sustainable agriculture: crop rotation, mulching, composting, green manures, etc. There is even a worm farm for our potting soil. We've been using indigenous micro organisms to improve the soil. It has now come to be the foundation in our techniques. We also use these beneficial microbes to ferment the feeds for our chickens and pigs and goat. We are selling this commercial product called Effective Micro-organisms, it is one of the building blocks for sustainable agriculture.
Professor Archie. stands by a row of ampalaya for a compost trial to see how it performs. It's actually more exciting than it looks...
Compost test. Performance is easily seen with various potting mediums utilizing our on farm vermicaste and compost mixes.
The herb rack.
Sweet Monster Papaya. We ferment our kitchen garbage with the beneficial microbes for only two weeks. Then we can plant papaya on 20 liters of it. It grows up to 9 lbs. (4 Kilos) fruits that are sweet.
Inner Garden. We are gardening in raised beds using compost, fermented organic matter and a consortium of microbes that work to build up the soil and grow healthy plants without chemicals.
Plant Nursery. We use bokashi and worm castes in our potting medium as well as bokashi, a natural fertilizer that is loaded with beneficial microbes.
Carrots. The key to sweetening our carrots is mulching with rice straw. With the soil improving structurally from rice hull charcoal the roots and tubers can grow deep and straight.
