Flowers for Sequestration
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Finding a food system which sequesters carbon, builds soil, and provides forage and habitat for insects will be civilizational challenges for us now and into this next decade. Although it's bigger than us, there are solutions in civil society.
Our food systems can do a lot of that work:
I want to bury carbon (scrap wood, fallen trees, leaves) which would have escaped into the atmosphere into beds which will grow cheap food requiring no food, water, or pesticides. These beds will also provide habitat for rapidly disappearing insects.
To achieve this, I need seeds. Lots of seeds, lots of species of seeds! The idea is to make a mix of dozens of species and let them fight it out. Among them will be vegetables, fruits, plants that build soil or compost, medicinal and culinary herbs, flowers, even grains. If you do this with no water, no food, no hard labor and you get robust plants with the qualities you want, those plants become the parents of the next generation of useful plants. The cycle continues, the plants fight and breed, we keep getting better plants and better seeds to share or sell. We can begin to develop community food systems that are regenerative.
I'm in the beginning stages of an agricultural project which will hopefully begin to tackle these issues on a small level. The theat and consequences of ACD require us to tackle it everywhere we meet it, from our individual consumption to defeating capitalism. The small and the large. This is part of the small.
To start my seed-soil experiment, I created a hugulkultur bed. This is a permaculture technique wherein you basically bury wood and other organic matter (leaves, weeds, food or paper waste) in create a bed. The wood slowly breaks down providing water and food for the plantings. I buried several hundred pounds of wood, which is a simple way to sequester carbon. I planted a green manure (wheat, rye, clover) and covered it with straw. For the next few months the bacteria, fungi, and insects will prepare the bed for the next part of the project an the spring seeding.
I'm requesting the money to start a seed mix to populate the hugul bed. I'm going to make a seed mix of 50+ species. This will be a mix of flowers, forage for wildlife and insects, medicinal and culinary herbs, fruits, vegetables, and grain.
I will document this process (probably on medium). I'm also thinking of a take home experiment for interested parties once I get a seed mix created.
This project will be lifelong, and if you fund it on the ground floor I'll be eternally grateful. The genetic progeny of this experiment will always be available to all who participate. I'd also love to make my notes and time available to anyone else wanting to try something similar.
Thank you!
Thomas C.
Our food systems can do a lot of that work:
I want to bury carbon (scrap wood, fallen trees, leaves) which would have escaped into the atmosphere into beds which will grow cheap food requiring no food, water, or pesticides. These beds will also provide habitat for rapidly disappearing insects.
To achieve this, I need seeds. Lots of seeds, lots of species of seeds! The idea is to make a mix of dozens of species and let them fight it out. Among them will be vegetables, fruits, plants that build soil or compost, medicinal and culinary herbs, flowers, even grains. If you do this with no water, no food, no hard labor and you get robust plants with the qualities you want, those plants become the parents of the next generation of useful plants. The cycle continues, the plants fight and breed, we keep getting better plants and better seeds to share or sell. We can begin to develop community food systems that are regenerative.
I'm in the beginning stages of an agricultural project which will hopefully begin to tackle these issues on a small level. The theat and consequences of ACD require us to tackle it everywhere we meet it, from our individual consumption to defeating capitalism. The small and the large. This is part of the small.
To start my seed-soil experiment, I created a hugulkultur bed. This is a permaculture technique wherein you basically bury wood and other organic matter (leaves, weeds, food or paper waste) in create a bed. The wood slowly breaks down providing water and food for the plantings. I buried several hundred pounds of wood, which is a simple way to sequester carbon. I planted a green manure (wheat, rye, clover) and covered it with straw. For the next few months the bacteria, fungi, and insects will prepare the bed for the next part of the project an the spring seeding.
I'm requesting the money to start a seed mix to populate the hugul bed. I'm going to make a seed mix of 50+ species. This will be a mix of flowers, forage for wildlife and insects, medicinal and culinary herbs, fruits, vegetables, and grain.
I will document this process (probably on medium). I'm also thinking of a take home experiment for interested parties once I get a seed mix created.
This project will be lifelong, and if you fund it on the ground floor I'll be eternally grateful. The genetic progeny of this experiment will always be available to all who participate. I'd also love to make my notes and time available to anyone else wanting to try something similar.
Thank you!
Thomas C.
Organizer
Thomas Caudill
Organizer
Louisa, KY
