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Water and living soil

Understand how to hold water, feed the soil and set up fertile cycles.

  1. 01

    Living soil: the invisible network

    Bacteria, fungi, worms: the real farmers.

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  2. 02

    Advanced composting

    Choosing between windrow, vermicompost, Bokashi, compost tea.

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  3. 03

    Biochar: carbon and retention

    When and how to use it without depleting the soil.

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  4. 04

    Water management

    Harvesting, swales, pond, mulching.

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Sources

  • USDA NRCS & Soil and Water Conservation Society (2000). Soil Biology Primer (éd. révisée). Ankeny : SWCS.
  • RHS (Royal Horticultural Society) : Composting (rhs.org.uk/soil-composts-mulches/composting)
  • Lehmann, J. & Joseph, S. (dir.) (2009). Biochar for Environmental Management: Science and Technology. Londres : Earthscan.
  • Allen, R.G., Pereira, L.S., Raes, D. & Smith, M. (1998). Crop evapotranspiration: guidelines for computing crop water requirements. FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56. Rome : FAO.

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