Lorraine Campbell

I partnered up with Julia Massey Stuart from Mango Lab for a Soil talk at the Bosvean Community garden end of Summer annual Fayre. It worked really well. We showed some slides throughout the talk and invited the audience to answer questions throughout. Soil is a very complex subject and the drawings help to show how soil structure is created, the various roles of fungi, bacteria, protozoa and nematodes the interactions between plants and their microbial partners as well as how photosynthesis...

http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/pedal-powered-wood-chipper The aim of the project is to bring awareness about the need for soil health by way of education and compost workshops throughout Cornwall, bringing people and nature together. With a particular focus on communities creating green spaces. Aswell as home gardeners. If you would like to get involved please Contact me. You may want to learn how to make biologically rich compost and we can let you know when/where the next compost workshop...

Last year I created 6 vegetable beds using a method of 'no-till method combined with a permaculture method of lasagna layering. Essentially a thick cardboard layer, followed by farm manure, then a layer of straw, some greens, leaves and seaweed. I then added a layer of quite dry sandy loam, typical of Cornwall. On the top I added 5% of shop bought concentrated farmyard manure. These beds were used for a trials project. I grew Sweetcorn very successfully here. They were inter-planted with...