Fall 2011 Food Not Lawns Class Resources
Living Planet Report
No-Till Pioneers:
THE ONE-STRAW REVOLUTION
Over a period of thirty-five years, Masanobu Fukuoka developed a rotation of successive crops of summer and winter grains sown into a permanent bed of clover. With this method, which Fukuoka san described in The One-Straw Revolution, he was able to achieve yields of rice, wheat and barley equal to or surpassing the highest in Japan without ever tilling the ground and without adding either chemical fertilizers or prepared
Ruth Stout ‘No-Work Garden Book: Secrets of the Famous Year-Round Mulch Method’
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organic-Gardening/2004-02-01/Ruth-Stouts-System.aspx
Lee Reich ‘Weedless Gardening’ http://leereich.com/
Patricia Lanza ‘Lasagna Gardening’ http://www.lasagnagardening.com/
Cover Crop Chart
http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=20323
Sources:
http://www.greencoverseed.com/
http://www.groworganic.com/seeds/cover-crop.html
http://www.territorialseed.com/prod_detail_list/cover_crops
Compost/Mulch
http://www.missouriorganic.com/products.html
Mulch from leaves, limbs and brush
Kansas City Mo Solid Waste Division has mixed wood mulch (processed from our leaves and brush collection ) available free of charge to the public. During scheduled times, the City also will load mulch into pickup trucks at no cost to residents.
The City operates two sites where mulch is available on scheduled Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.:
1815 N. Chouteau Trafficway and I-470 / Raytown Road Site (on the southeast corner of Raytown Road and I-470).
These sites are open to the public, residents, businesses and institutions of Kansas City, Mo. For further questions, please call (816) 513-1313.
Olathe residents can pick up free mulch and compost from the City’s Composting Facility, located at 127th & Hedge Lane (old city landfill), Mon-Sat, 8 am – 4 pm. The compost and mulch are made from the processing of materials collected and managed through the City’s residential yard waste collection program, and they are offered back to residents, free of charge, for use in their home landscapes. Please call beforehand (913) 971-9311 to confirm the availability of materials, and remember to bring a shovel and a container to load it yourself!
CITY OF LAWRENCE WOOD CHIP SALE
Thursday-Saturday, 8:00am-3:00pm (til 4:00 on Sat.)
1420 E 11th Street, Lawrence KS (east of 11th and Haskell, over the tracks)
The material is chipped from trees cut down by the City. Cost is $10 per standard pick-up load, more for larger trucks or trailers. For more info, contact the Waste Reduction and Recycling Division at 832-3030 or visit www.LawrenceRecycles.org.
CITY OF LAWRENCE COMPOST SALE
Thursday-Saturday, 20-22 October 2011, 8:00am-3:00pm (til 4:00 on Sat.)
1420 E 11th Street, Lawrence KS (east of 11th and Haskell, over the tracks)
The material is composted from leaves, grass clippings, and prunings collected by the City. Quantities are restricted to pick-ups and small trailers for residential use, not commercial use. Cost is $10 per load if loaded by tractor, or free if self-loaded by hand. For more info, contact the Waste Reduction and Recycling Division at 832-3030 or visit www.LawrenceRecycles.org. The City certifies that the material has been tested for the herbicide, chlorpyralid.
1 cubic yard will cover 100 sq ft 3” thick
Fertilizers from organic sources
Soybean meal
Alfalfa meal
Blood, bone meal
Fish emulsion
Wood ash, granite dust
Manure
Compost
Rule of thumb for 5% nitrogen
#cups = area X .04 ~ .06
4 To 6 lb 100 sqft
Get a soil test
http://www.agronomy.ksu.edu/soiltesting/p.aspx?tabid=20
http://soilplantlab.missouri.edu/soil/testfees.aspx
soil test including heavy metals
http://www.umass.edu/soiltest/soil_test_intro.htm