Step two in the hedgerow plan:
Turning waste unprocessed brush and limb on the Oasis Farm in to valuable soil. Interested in helping build one of these. There is no better time than the end of winter to build a bunch of these. Over a short time this biomass will become the forest floor for the hedge. By placing them down hill of our plantings we can actually build forest floor as our hedgerow grows overhead using all of our woody and brush waste in the future thus storing the nutrient in the soil. This is one of those long haul projects as we have 4 years of brush piled up. That's a lot of soil!
This link below goes to a wonderful step by step methodology. Very impressive presentation showing installations. Ours will be a modified one of these because of the type of material.
Hugelkultur: Composting Whole Trees With Ease - The Permaculture Research Institute:
"Hugelkultur is a composting method that uses large pieces of rotting wood as the centerpiece for long term humus building decomposition. The decomposition process takes place below the ground, while at the same time allowing you to cultivate the raised, or sunken, hugelkultur bed. This allows the plants to take advantage of nutrients released during decomposition. Hugelkultur, in its infinite variations, has been developed and practiced by key permaculture proponents such as Sepp Holzer and Masanobu Fukuoka for decades."
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