Bio
PSI provides regenerative and bio solutions to farms and any other entity that is in the business of growing things....
Breaking the roundup grip, planting cover crops, mulching and the application of microbes, are just many of our approaches. However it requires a paradigm shift for the grower. Knowing what you are doing is right, not only for your budget, but for your crop, everyone's health and years to come.
SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT
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Compost turners and chippers
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Mulching systems
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Compost Tea brewing
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Microbes - initially to get mycorrhizal fungi back and well established for many reasons.
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Liquid Vermi Extract (this is not "worm tea" rather it is the liquid form of entire worm casting)
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Bio Char will be appearing soon in commercial volumes.
Lamego South, Mozambique
Using compost and compost teas made from bush cleared to treat sugar cane and rehabilitate soil
Planted Sugar Cane would not grow in ant hill levelled soil as can be seen. Treatments of compost and compost teas got that same cane to germinate in the treated centre and the periphery never took. All we did was add soil life
Bio Structures
Vetiver as a bio structure is probably the most widely used silt and water harvesting tool.
This is truly a wonder grass and non-invasive with root systems growing up to 2m deep. It is not known as "biological nails" for nothing. Here it is planted in a water way that is eroding to firstly slow water down and secondly form a silt trap to ensure our top soil is not carried of to the sea.
Bio Structures
Here Invasive Alien Plants (IAP's) have been used at the erosion source.
It doesn't help just forming silt traps...we need to slow water down and ensure it reduces its erosive energy right from the source. Africa's biggest export is its topsoil and we are running out. Here IAP's in slats are used to hold pockets of planted grass as well as a topsoil and compost mix to ensure the grass has an anchor. These sites often have high ground temperatures and moisture loss is high for planted grasses to establish. These pockets harvest small amounts of water but just enough for grasses to establish. These areas are often too remote for machines and implements to reach.
