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How to Grow Ginger for Profit in a Food Forest "Living Permaculture" Episode 3
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2014
- To learn more about How to Grow Ginger for Profit in a Food Forest click here: • How to Grow Ginger for...
Agroforestry has become my greatest passion on our permaculture homestead. It is such an amazing and dynamic system, and in my opinion, is one of the technologies that can help save the planet. Perennial (AKA - Permanent) tree and plant systems offer so much stability to our natural landscapes. In permaculture, one of our biggest goals is to mimic nature. Agroforestry, sometimes called food-forests, is designed to mimic nature while simultaneously provide an amazing abundance for humans and animals. Unlike traditional orchards, agroforestry systems incorporate a large variety of tree and plant species to create a dynamic symbiotic relationship. In this video we will be exploring the idea of inter-planting the open spaces of these systems that exist in the early succession period. There are endless possibilities for plants that you can use and your choices will be determined by your climate and needs. Today we will look at one of the most healing medicinal plants on the planet...Ginger!
Ginger is the underground rhizome of the ginger plant with a firm, striated texture. The flesh of the ginger rhizome can be yellow, white or red in color, depending upon the variety. It is covered with a brownish skin that may either be thick or thin, depending upon whether the plant was harvested when it was mature or young. Growing ginger is very easy if you are in the right climate. It is a very robust plant and will continue to reproduce once it is started. Native to southeastern Asia, a region whose cuisines still feature this wonderfully spicy herb, ginger has been renowned for millennia in many areas throughout the world. Ginger is mentioned in ancient Chinese, Indian and Middle Eastern writings, and has long been prized for its aromatic, culinary and medicinal properties. After the ancient Romans imported ginger from China almost two thousand years ago, its popularity in Europe remained centered in the Mediterranean region until the Middle Ages when its use spread throughout other countries. Although it was a very expensive spice, owing to the fact that it had to be imported from Asia, it was still in great demand. In an attempt to make it more available, Spanish explorers introduced ginger to the West Indies, Mexico and South America, and in the 16th century, these areas began exporting the precious herb back to Europe.
If you want to try this at home, you can start your ginger plant from any fresh ginger root you buy at the store. It loves deep loose soils and will continue to spread and reproduce once you get it started. Thanks for tuning in and please LIKE,SUBSCRIBE and SHARE our channel with your friends.
Brendon McKeon.........................Permaculture Designer
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Soundtrack by Kevin Zacek
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1:44 Medicinal properties of ginger
2:17 Preparing the soil to plant ginger
2:40 Laying out contour beds to plant ginger
2:50 Contour swales for planting ginger
2:57 Planting ginger
3:23 Amending beds for ginger
3:54 How much ginger to plant
4:25 How much ginger you will yield
4:52 How big of pieces of ginger to plant
5:51 Mulching ginger
6:38 When to mound ginger
7:02 Digging out swales of ginger beds
7:15 Chop and drop mulch for ginger beds
8:18 Weeding ginger beds
8:24 Organic foliar spray for ginger
9:28 Digging up ginger rhizomes
9:45 Food forest~agroforestry
To learn more about how to grow ginger click here: • How to Grow Ginger for...
I've watched several of your videos and I think what you are doing is outstanding, especially the segment on planting trees so that people passing by can access them. Exceptional. Definitely worth a subscription and a thumbs up. Best wishes from Pennsylvania.
Randy Chadwick Great to know you are enjoying our videos!(-: That really means a lot to us Randy. If you ever journey to Costa Rica let us know and we would love to give you a tour of the permaculture farm and the new Eco Development we are fixing to begin building. Stay tuned....many more videos to come!
@@naturallivingdesigns2383 G 2:16 Amen Amen
In my Native Americans class, there was a discussion about some Amazonian people "building" the rain forest. They probably did something like this. Really cool!
Corey McCarrick Terra Pretta!
What an amazing way of farming! So inspirational. I hope more farmers will grow food this way, mimicking nature and looking after the land.
Fantastic! Thank you for inviting me to view your farm - we can grow organic ginger and turmeric in Normandie, as you will have seen in my video but this is impressive! All the best from a food forest in France, Pavlovafowl aka Sue
Pavlovafowl Good to know you enjoyed our video!
What an amazing food forest you have there! Thanks for the informative and well produced video on how you grow ginger in your food forest in Costa Rica.
Thanks for watching OneYardRevolution! I look forward to your next video!(-: Look for our weekly videos posted every Thursday....
Thanks for sharing this Patrick! This was helpful. I visited CR last year and ate the most amazing pineapples, yum. I am growing a bed of galangal this year, which is similar to ginger. I have observed it does amazingly well with a generous side dressing of rich compost. It is a heavy feeder too. I use it young, when it is pink, for Thai cooking. I think I will also give ginger a try next year.
Thanks for sharing this knowledge. You explain growing ginger for profit in a tropical food forest in clear detail. This video will really help the poor rural village in Bali where We are just starting to grow one of the rare medicinal gingers.
The best of luck to you Rhonda. Thanks for your comment.
Finally somebody that is not afraid to lay out numbers in front of our eyes (ears should I say). Hard numbers so anyone can replicate them. The "postre" :...yes you can have a win-win situation where you:
1. respect the nature
2: can become self-sufficiency in terms of food -for you and your family and friends ...why not!
3. and yes...you can make a profit, even a living with it!...if you decide to go at this level
Making money doing permaculture...why not! Making money with permaculture...a duty to Mother Earth!
Roger
Brendon, please go on in this trend: numbers talks!
I can give you some hard numbers re permaculture. My cost of food for my family of five and I. Zero.
There's hope for the future. We can serve ourselves, the environment, and each other all at the same time. In fact, it looks like we can serve all three the best. I'd like to see this become the standard. Wonder if I will.
Well..The term Permaculture was coined the year I was born and I am fourty two years old. If it hasn't caught on yet.
Yes we can serve, nature mankind and ourselves too.
Another great video. The only fertilizer my ginger gets is the continuous decomposing wood chips. Ginger seems to love them and they keep the soil super soft which as you said is what the plant prefers. Thanks for all the tips.
Thanks for watching!(-:
Thank you for the video and spreading permaculture, it's great to see different things from around the world.
Loved your pack back sprayer.
Thanks for your comment and watching our video Daniel!(-:
I just harvested some jungle honey(-: Thanks for watching!
+Eco Oasis post a video on it please! yumm
+keyair123 Thank you for you comment. Great idea! Ok, look for a video in the near future on jungle bees.(-:
Thanks for your quick answer. You have a wonderful food forest
Wow what a wonderful food forest! Funny me neighbor just got back from a trip to Costa Rica! I just infused war honey with fresh ginger! It's so delicious and good for you!
Thanks for sharing! Misilla
Really helpful video. Ginger grows well here in Central Florida. I am not sure why you said that calliandra is not a nitrogen fixer. Many reliable sources list it as a leguminous nitrogen fixer. Calliandra haematocephala has a place in my food forest system, including for that reason.
Folliarfertilizer comes from fermented fruit. Take the juice after one week and mix about half a cup into a gallon of water and spray it on the leaves.
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+Eco Oasis Thanks for the information. Very encouraging to see someone that is willing to share with us their information. Thanks and keep them coming.
+An R Thanks for your comment....it really means a lot to us that you are enjoying our videos.(-:
Eco Oasis sir..i am interested about doing agro forestry as youbare doing.hope you can help.me out for this in the Philippines. i am so blessed i came across your video.i really wanted to try ginger cultivation in my province. i hope you could have time to share your expertise with me. i just don't know how to keep it touch with you. i would be glad to have some tips or guide through email or in any way here is my email for any updates leah_prieto291984@yahoo.com. thanks you in advance and more power!
where are you ? in mindanao?
Dutchy in Davao no I'm from cagayan valley region...
I badly want a small forest all my own! Great video, mate!!
Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment!
I hope you are working on it Nikhil.
Hi Brendon,
Thanks for sending me this link! Permaculture is solo important! I love that your growing in an environmentally friendly way!
This is really interesting. It sure looks hot in Casta Rica!
This is really really informative, I love how you also added a table of contents for this episode in the about section. (I think I am going to start doing that on my show.)
Scarlett
Ps. I subbed and look forward to seeing more of your farm!
Thanks for checking us out Scarlett...looks like you have a great channel going. Keep up the great work!
It does help a lot to add about a cup of molasses during the fermentation period of one week. No exact measurement required!
I will definitely keep watching your videos.
Thank you for your comment Yen Chi Liu!(-:
Wow!fantastic,very informative video.thanks a lot
Wonderful...thank you from Australia
Oh my gosh I’d love to visit!!! 😍
Hi I just came across with your videos and found it very interesting. I am from the northern of Brazil however I live in New Zealand and I have been curious about permaculture since last year when I went back home for holiday and heard a story about my father's friend that lost 20 cows due to the lack of water and fooder. and he said that it was very sad see them die.I have plans to go back there for good and start a permaculture design in my father"land, so I can give some contribution to him and others farmers.I saw your comment somewhere that you have some paddocks for pasture.Do you have videos talking abou this subject?you have done a great job in your farm.Thanks
+joss almeida Thanks for checking in and happy to hear you are wanting to start some permaculture designs. I don't have any videos on my grazing systems but there is lot's of information on the internet. Do a google search on "mob grazing" or "holistic management". Best of luck with your projects, let us know how it goes.
+fit farmer Thanks Iam gonna check it out I'll let you know
Fantastic video content !
You give so much more than one can hope in such a short video, thank u , 👌👍
A lovely video, most informative...I certainly will be planting ginger very soon
Winston
thank you for your videos and I learned more. I would like your assistance because I am making ginger farming in Guinea
Nice video-- looking to growing mirco-greens in Fla.--Use to live in Costa Rica beautiful place. Still have friends in Cuidad Colon.
Por a Vida !!
Dennis Gilbride Glad you enjoyed our video Dennis. Make sure and check out more!(-:
Very informative video, keep it up. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, GREETINGS FROM ACCRA, GHANA, WEST AFRICA
I would like to start doing my own food farm and ginger is a really good crop.👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏
very informative i will follow it in my farm here in philippines
Amazing video, thank you! You mentioned you plant ginger pieces with 2-3 eyes on it. Why not only one? Don't they overcrowd if all three comes out or do you thin them out? Also, how did you determine/find the contours to plant along? Thanks so much!
Wow! Very detailed and extremely useful. Thank you for making this : )
Christina Zawerucha Thank you for your comment and watching our video Christina!(-:
very cool stuff thanks for sharing.
Thank you for your comment Steve! Spread the word.....
Great video. Thanks for sharing and keep up the good work. Hope you continue sharing more videos.
Thanks for your comment hailstorm711. Good to know that you enjoyed our video!
God bless you for sharing this, great job.
Thank you for your comment Permaculture Prepper!(-:
Great guy
video was really informative..In my country (India) small formers follows the same method from centuries. yet they don't see big profit in that.. is agriculture always profitable? if we take ginger also the market price fluctuates heavily. how to be always in profit irrespective of market condition?
+subramanya s As you know,farming has many variables and there is definitely risk involved. Weather conditions and market price fluctuation are big factors in the Ginger business. Organic ginger has a much more stable market than conventional and generally a much higher demand. I will be obtaining my exporting license this year in order to sell my product more directly to end users and eliminate many of the middle men. If I obtain positive results from this I will then start a co-op of local farmers which will have many benefits. Having a larger amount of product helps to attract buyers as they generally don't want to do all the work involved to import small amounts, usually a full 40' container (18,000 kilos +/-) is the minimum they want to purchase. Creating a co-op can also benefit the small farmer by being able to share cost's like transportation and bulk purchasing of inputs for the farm. Hope this information helps!
@ fit farmer. Thanks a ton for your valuable information!! Creating Co-op is really a great idea.. We do have Co-op having 5-8 small farmers.. But most of them are limited only to get loan from the government.. Defenetly I share this idea with my co-op..
Diversity.
I LOVE ginger!
would love to see how you guys make the biochar.
Ginger.great
(-:
hi, great video.. please can you tell me if you just directly plant the ginger or you dip them in any sort of fungicide or anything else.thanks
+M Dastur I'm happy you enjoyed the video! We did not do any treatment to the Ginger before planting, but did spray the fields with 3 different Mycelium complexes in order to mitigate nematodes and any soil disease. During growth we used a product we make with Sulfur and Calcium as a anti-fungus treatment. We are certified organic, so never use any chemical fungicides, pesticides or fertilizers.
Barry nice
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Awesome project!
Thanks for your comment Ben. It is good to know that you liked our video.(-:
I would appreciate your tips in making organic fertilizers for ginger that was mentioned in your video
thanks for the tips in the video :)
just got an interest in planting ginger..thanks really
apollo suan Good to know you enjoyed our video Apollo! Good luck on your ginger harvest. Make sure and check out our other ginger videos on our channel.
Eco Oasis
sure i will :) gracias!
Are you guys going to post any new updated videos?
Hey I need a little info. How old do ginger need to be to use as planting material?
I will be planting some Ginger soon!
Great! Let us know how it turns out.
can you talk about harvest solutions for food forest. and how to layout for best harvest?
Hi MsTokies
Great question. One of the distinctions I usually use for the difference between a "food forest" system and an "agroforestry system" is the organization of the crops. We do both types of systems here on the farm. The food forest's have a much greater quantity of differen trees and plants and are less organized in the placement. This is where we might have 40 types of fruit trees but only plant 1-3 of each. We are also ok filling the space with much tighter inter-planting and variety as we are not trying to run this as a commercial type system. The food forest is the place we will take daily walks with the food basket and clippers...filling the basket with whatever seasonal food is producing and snipping a bit here and there for maintenance. Our agro-forestry systems are much more organized and are more planted in rows or blocks. We plant on contour with a double hedgerow...one hedge being vetivere and the other a nitrogen fixer about 1 meter apart. We then put our fruit trees about 2 meters up from the vetivere which is our top hedge. The hedgerows act as a wall to stop soil that is washing down slope and over time will build natural terraces for us up onto our fruit trees, depositing the soil where we want it. The hedgerows are also our mulch and green manure and are very easy to chop and toss 2 meters onto our trees. The rest of the space between the trees and the next hedgerow is then filled in with understory trees, medicinals, pollinators, dynamic accumulators, inter-plants like ginger and root crops and ground cover. Generally we will have 1-3 rows of the same fruit tree so they are easier to manage for pruning, harvesting, fertilizer cycles, etc. We also manage these systems more on a schedule as compared to the ongoing type of management in the food forests. One more thing to add is the idea of zonation that we always pay attention to in permaculture design. The more care or harvest a system will require, the closer you want it to where you spend more time. This insures being able to observe your systems and give them the appropriate care. Thanks for checking us out and I hope this information helped.
One of the best permaculture video ive ever come across. After how long the ginger are ready for harvest?
Thank You Kim Kims! Ginger takes 8-9 months to be fully mature. You know plant is ready when all the leaves dry and die.
You are wlcm sir. Am searching the other video you spoke about.
Does the flower on the ginger make the ginger smaller or take energy from the ginger?
Good job....
Thank you for stopping by Charitha.
Thanks for your video...I would love to get details regarding your organic spray fertilizer.
I live in the tropics where 80% of the population depends on farming- substance in nature and the people have remained poor. i think this method of farming would change my local village.
WOW! LOVE THIS! GOD BLESS!
what's in your foliar spray?
I've grown ginger successfully in Canada a few years ago and am planning to grow it aga in next year.. helps to start them quite early in a warm greenhouse and transplant outside with the corn and beans, also helps to start with rhizomes that are already sprouting.. Hugh Lovel says ginger is a good silica accumulator and also a great mycorrhyizal host..
We are spraying our homemade Organic fertilizer mixed with our liquid microrganism formula.
We also spray liquid mycelium formulas to combat nematodes which can be an issue for ginger.
informative video, inspirational too
Awesome work! One question, what species is that nitrogen fixer you called "pero"? Thanks, inspiring stuff!
Poro (Erythrina poeppigiana) Thanks for watching!
WOW, fantastic, thank you for inviting me to watch your video, I love your passion, I have a silly question, have you seen any human bot flies? I see people who go to Costa Rica for camping & hiking trips go home with one or two or even 3 bot fly larvae living under their skin. Getting back to the ginger, I'm planting again next month. I think I'm addicted to it. I guess it's not a bad addiction to have. Good luck with your crop, cheers.
Thanks for watching Jeff. Yes, I have seen human bot flies but very rarely. In my 10 years here I have only had one. We see them a lot more in the animals. I agree, ginger is a great addiction...glad to hear you are planting. Take Care Bro
Thank you Brendon, How I use my ginger is I make ginger syrup & what I call finely grated crystallized ginger in the one process, I use the ginger syrup to sweeten my coffee, that's addictive & use the other in all our cooking & desserts. Plus it goes in any jam I make. I've always got thinly sliced ginger in the freezer so I'm able to use that in chutneys or anywhere I want to use thin strips. I guess getting only one bot fly larvae was enough, at least you had the experience. A couple of years ago I watched every bot fly video u-tube had to offer. The one with the lady squeezing one out of her cat is a beauty. The lady screams when it comes out, so I tell people for the first time to watch the screen closely to watch what happens. The ladies scream gets them every time:):) I'll ttyl, bye
*****
Wow...super creative, I will have to try some of those ideas. I'm wondering if you saw my bot fly video a few years back. It's called "Botfly Dog" on you tube. Kind of a sad thing to watch, but one of the realities of living in the tropics. Take Care Bro
*****
It's the video that says "10 bot lies removed from a dogs nose"...FYI
No, I saw that one, it's "bot fly removal from our cat". Watch very closely towards the 37 second mark, with your volume turned up. Get your kids to watch & concentrate:):) Now I see a heap of bot fly compilation videos since last time I watched any.
I took many ginger in the past. I got a pain when urine .even doctor dont know the problem.eventually I stop taking ginger and the pain stop. Now I seldom take ginger drink only in cooking,
can you plz tell me for how long will it to harvest the ginger and will it be ok to replant after the harvest..
Hi Mizu,
Thank you for your question. The Ginger stays in the ground for approximately 9 months to be finished. Here in Costa Rica, we plant in May and harvest around January/February when the plants dry out. You can plant in the same place if you don't have any disease in your crop but it is most ideal to let an area rest for 1 year before replanting in the same area. We use some of the ginger we harvest as the seed for the next years planting. Hope that helps!
how did you set your export
Nice farm! Good info. Pretty sure Calliandra sp. fix nitrogen though.
Yes, you are correct on the Caliandra.
Do you grow guanabana and if it so, how do you take care of it?
i liked the video, thanks it was great.
Thank you for watching our How to Grow Ginger for Profit video! Good to know you enjoyed it.
Gardening in the Hillside, how often you encounter a snake?
Thanks for sharing this video
Thank you for your comment Bobby!
Ive been looking for a nice video and this really gived a good view on how much u can fit in to
one space
Good to know you enjoyed the video Bobby!(-:
Also, which species of calliandra are you using that doesn't fix nitrogen? I thought most of them were nodulating nitrogen fixers?
You are totally right...sweet. I learn something new everyday. Thanks for the correction.
@@brendonmckeon3219 good day Brendo, I live in Jamaica and in the process of planting ginger for export, I have completed about an acre so far. But I love your caring process and think i will employ some of your steps.☺
How to we save seeds form next year
Good effert.Thank u,
james pv thanks for watching!
Love the video! I buy Ginger in the local market here in Chiangmai Thailand for US $ 1.25 per Kilo or .75 cents a lb. I was wondering if that sounds inexpensive to you? I dont want your prices or anything just wondering what the retail price is in Costa Rico?
walkertongdee That seems like a good price. I honestly don't know what it sells for at the local markets because we grow it so I don't buy it. I sell it at around $2.00 a Kilo and that is selling all of my harvest at once. This is for export and is certified Organic. The conventional ginger is sold to local exporters at around $1.00 per kilo but I'm sure it is more at the local markets.
I pay $27 a kilo for fresh organic ginger here in Northern NSW in Australia! If I grew some commercially on my 5 acres it would be very lucrative.
Nathan Cooper Please let us know if you have any questions Nathan. Our ginger is almost ready to harvest...we will be posting a video when they are ready. Thank you for your comment!
Very informative. Thank you. What variety of ginger are you using?
Thanks Sidney! The variety is called Grand Caymen.
What/how was the land used before you bought the farm?
L Stern When we purchased the property it was half pasture and the other half was shade grown coffee, oranges, pejibaye and Rambutan. Because this was all being grown with by conventional methods..chemical fertilizers, etc, we let the land take over and re grow in these areas for four years. This was our method to rehabilitate the land and let early succession plants do there work of healing the soil. After four years, we cleared the land and started to implement our food forest systems, leaving and utilizing all the Nitrogen trees they had used for the shade grown coffee. We now have more than 60 varieties of fruits, a handful of nut varieties and many inter-cropping systems (roots, tubers, pineapple, etc). We have also planted around 5000 additional Nitrogen fixing plants and 3000 Banana plants. The animal diversity that now exists is amazing and has changed drastically since we first started. We have split the pasture into 16 paddocks and utilize the Rotational Grazing method for our animals. Thanks for checking in!
G 2:16 Amen Amen
How do I get for ginger? Kindly assist
How about snakes working in such a dense forest floor ?
8:28 what is that sprayer? Very cool
Its a gas powered backpack sprayer...there are many brands. The one we are using is a Stihl. It saves a lot of time on a big farm and gives you much better coverage. Thanks for your comment David!
Dudeee this is my dream
+Will Lee Thanks for stopping by and watching our video. Make your dream come true Will....
+Eco Oasis NOOO thank you seriously for spreading knowledge that can heal the planet and benefit the human collective I salute you sir ✊🏾
+Will Lee Thank you for your comment my friend...that really means a lot to us!(-: Infinite Blessings to you....
Hey thankyou for sharing this video. Q: Can I plant ginger in banana farm? 😆
Yes you can Shubham.
Eco Oasis This week I will plant 300 T.C. banana sucker and after one month I will plant ginger between the rows of banana plant. I will try your four tips "How to grow organic healthy banana" ☺ I will share a link to you after plantation. Thank you for your time for sharing this tutorial.
Permaculture is no till..
Awesome farm! That's my dream! Way to heal the earth! I'm trying to get ginger established before I start harvesting. I'm in semi trop florida and they are dying back a bit for winter but I split them and hopefully they will be ok I am chopping and dropping everything and they could get buried a bit but I feel they will be ok.. They really started taking off this year now with the partial shade from my moringas and dichondra ground cover instead of grass.. Check out my garden of liberty and peace and love Bradenton Florida Awesome info!
Nik Lyons of
Of Bradentucky
wow... he sure know how to talks
Call me an idealist, but shouldn’t food forestry be about fixing the planet, not running a commercial operation for individualistic gains... in Costa Rica?
Hi Paul
Permaculture principal # 3 is "Obtain a Yield". To quote David Holmgren, one of the fathers of permaculture..." A yield, profit or income functions as a reward that encourages, maintains and/or replicates the system that generated the yield. In this way, successful systems spread."
***** So a "yield" as it is being defined here sounds more like a surplus of production, which is then sold for profit...sounds more like more of the same system that's given birth to modern agribusiness to me. Thanks for the reply, although I have to say I find Holmgren's definition won't produce the kind of replication he was hoping for.
Paul D you are an idealist. :) The world needs people like you.
I appreciate growers like these. They work toward respecting the planet, provide employment and ethical food choices for those who do not have the land or ability to grow ethically themselves.
Stephanie Whittle Thank you for you comment Stephanie!(-:
Eco Oasis I apologize if my comments were perceived as a personal attack on your system and ethics, as I know nothing regarding your business practices. With that said, my hope was to---in a small way---open some eyes to the fact that although permaculture is extremely progressive (environmentally) once larger capital views it as profitable business venture, it could become exploitative in areas of the world where the politico-economic systems are overrun with corruption and labor protections are almost absent. Even if my perspective is incorrect, it’s worth a discussion and could perhaps raise awareness. Thanks for your patience.
you need to show it not by just talking sir
it's pronounced hec-tear
tear as in rip. not cry :)
Bigbeard Trotzen-Skege (-:
This is actually the way it is pronounced here in Costa Rica...a Spanish speaking country
Please don't rotor till you could just have put soil on top like having a raised bed without the bed. Because you're killing the reasons your doing the food forest because you're destroying all the beneficial bacteria and fungus and all the worms and beneficial nematode.
Why are you swallowing after each time u speak
very informative i will follow it in my farm here in philippines
Great to hear that Frank. The best of luck to you!