discover the benefits of Biological Farming
Here at Trust Nature we teach, consult and promote an effective groundbreaking science of soil biology that gives you a real understanding of how to revitalize your soils in 5 proven steps on the farm.
Use less water, less fertilizer and fewer chemicals, using biological farming as an effective system of more profitable production. Production can no longer be at the expense of soil health, if we are to remain profitable; we need new answers, answers that empower us as the managers of our productive systems.
BIOLOGICAL FARMING INFORMATION
Find out more about the pinciples of biological soil management...
Put the life back into the soil and the profits back into agriculture
We take what's considered to be an 'on-farm' problem of agricultural waste, analyze this using laboratory and field testing and use the correct proportions of materials to build windrows. Trucks and loaders are used to roughly form the windrows that are typically 100 meters long and contain approximately 100 tonnes of raw material.
We use a turner specifically made for making inoculum compost and over a 6-8 week period create a high quality inoculum compost rich in aerobic soil microbes that re-vitalise degraded soils and reduces the need for water, fertilizer, herbicides etc.
This is a genuine waste to wealth program where we put the life back into the soil and the profits back into agriculture. Not only are we making what ultimately becomes a high quality top soil, we're also enriching the soil with beneficial soil microbes that work 24-7 to ensure production while decreasing inputs.
Featured talk: Paul Stamets on 6 ways mushrooms can save the world
Entrepreneurial mycologist Paul Stamets seeks to rescue the study of mushrooms from forest gourmets and psychedelic warlords. The focus of Stamets' research is the Northwest's native fungal genome, mycelium, but along the way he has filed 22 patents for mushroom-related technologies, including pesticidal fungi that trick insects into eating them, and mushrooms that can break down the neurotoxins used in nerve gas.
There are cosmic implications as well. Stamets believes we could terraform other worlds in our galaxy by sowing a mix of fungal spores and other seeds to create an ecological footprint on a new planet.
"Once you’ve heard 'renaissance mycologist' Paul Stamets talk about mushrooms, you'll never look at the world -- not to mention your backyard -- in the same way again." Linda Baker, Salon.com