PDC LESSON 7.2 COMPOST - ENZYMES NEED MINERALS
PERMACULTURE COURSE AGRO-ECONOMY
PDC LESSON
7.2 COMPOST - ENZYMES
NEED MINERALS
Enzymes need minerals
to
do the job of digesting and breaking down the food we eat. When the right minerals aren’t available for
the enzymes to work with, our digestion will be compromised. If we don’t digest
our food properly, we don’t get the proper nourishment from the food we eat. If
we don’t have proper nourishment we don’t function as well as we should. Get
the picture? No wonder we’re a sick lot!
For
several generations we’ve been eating refined, adulterated, and denatured food
grown in mineral deficient soils with the addition of herbicides, pesticides
and artificial fertilisers.
Our
public health system is groaning yet seeks to rectify our short- comings with
drugs! How absurd! Yet we keep on demanding soft, white, fluffy bread that we
cannot even call the staff of life anymore. Yes, we are abusing our health and
well-being by eating sub-standard food, there’s no doubt about it-there’s
always a price to pay. Our present day statistics tell the
story.
·
One in four will have heart disease,
·
one in three will have cancer
·
and one in five will have diabetes some time in their
life.
The
statistics are alarming.
Are you motivated enough to take your health and well-being
into your own hands?
Let’s go back
now and have a closer look at making good compost so we can succeed in growing
our own healthy organic produce.
Text from the roots, Elisabeth Ferkonia (Aus.) PDC
studied with Bill Mollison,
TEXT IN THE CHART
The process starts with adding fresh mulch and strow under the chicken
roost each week,
Or give this in the stall; of pigs or sheep’s, cows so it mixed with
manure.
Build your pile with the used mulch, manure, food, & weeds.
1/3 m³ Manure of any grazing animal,
1/3 Mulch
1/3 Food scraps & weed
1 m³ as minimum, keep it wet
Or also possible
30 cm green,
5 cm manure,
5 cm soil and so on.
When you make a higher compost like 1.50 m high and 150 m bride, and
cover with soil at last.
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