Earth | Mutant Action

27 mar/10 0

Become a Keeper of Seeds with Farming

Custode di Semi con Civiltà Contadina For centuries our ancestors have cultivated the fruits of the earth keeping the seeds from one season to the next harvest. Fruits, vegetables, cereals and legumes were able to interbreed and, through natural selection, modified to fit various environments. This has generated a rich variety of plants and, consequently, the food that comes with it.
Unfortunately, the rural biodiversity, heritage of the past of our Italian agricultural tradition is threatened by neglect, by poor eating habits and techniques of industrial cultivation increasingly marked by high profitability, heedless of Exploitation over the territory.

The Seed Keepers (internationally known as Seed Savers) are a group of people who have the goal of conservation and sharing of seeds of vegetables and plants otherwise doomed to extinction, so that the richness and variety of products and flavors is preserved and transmitted to future generations.

3 feb/09 7

Building a terrarium for carnivorous plants 2 - land and flora

After realizing the 'water recirculation system is the time to fill my mini terrarium with soil and carnivorous plants.

Figure 1 - Layers of soil

Here are the details of the soil layers (see figure 1):

a - expanded clay (~ 4 cm)
b - perlite (~ 3 cm)
c - a mixture of peat and perlite (~ 6 cm)
d - peat (~ 1 cm)
and - live sphagnum moss and carnivorous plants (5 different species) + a few pieces of bark