Spring Rain

We just had to run down to the farm and put lots of stuff away into the greenhouse, as there were suddenly large rain drops falling from the sky…  It was cloudy all day, but the weather report said no rain until Sunday, and I foolishly trusted some all-knowing meteorologist rather than my own eyes.  I think it’s over now, but it rained enough to make a difference.

As far as fungus goes, I really want to learn how to inoculate our soil with this miracle fungus tea that Billy learned about recently at a local permaculture meeting he went to.  There’s a man who lives in our area who is on the cutting edge of soil biology and compost tea brewing, and he’s discovered that if you collect fungus (particularly from old growth forests) and create a fungal pile (wood chips basically with your fungus added to it) you can make an extract that dramatically improves your soil health.  Apparently Driscoll’s strawberry farm has hired him, and they only use his tea now with no other inputs.  It sounds kind of too good to be true, but I’m looking forward to learning more about this and going to one of his workshops.  It seems that the key to healthy soil is a vibrant fungal community and hopefully we can encourage that.

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