Regenerative BioComplete™ Urban Agriculture For:
Home & Market Gardens, Farmlets, Lawns & Turf, Horticulture, Parks & Reserves
Enhance your soils biology for vibrant health
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Healthy plants produce healthy soils and livestock
Healthy soils produce healthy plants and livestock Healthy plants and livestock, healthy humans
> Lower costs
> Improved quality
> Increased yields
> Higher profits
What is Regenerative BioComplete™ Urban Agriculture?
Traditional gardening and agriculture depends on chemical sprays to control pests and weeds and inorganic fertilisers to grow crops and grasses. This typically leads to a reduction of the organic matter in the soil and significant decreases in the soil microorganisms which provide the macro and micro nutrients plants require to thrive.
Our regenerative approach to gardening and farming reduces the need for fertilisers and chemical pest and weed control by rebuilding the soil microorganisms in the correct proportions of the Soil Food Web to make it biologically complete. Instead of strongly bacterial dominant soils we produce, bacteria, beneficial fungi, protozoa (amoebe and flagellates) and beneficial nematodes in the right proportions and diversity. We do this through specific management practices and growing the missing organisms in specifically cultured composts. Â
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What Is The Soil Food Web?
As plants take energy from the sun and water via their roots and leaves, they photosynthesize to produce oxygen which we breathe and carbohydrates (sugars) which they use to grow. Upto 60% of these carbohydrates can be released into the soil through the roots to feed the bacteria and fungi. In return the bacteria and fungi mine the soil for the nutrients plants need. As their predators (Protozoa, Nematodes and Arthripods) feed on the bacteria and fungi, their excreted waste is high in nitrogen and other nutrients which is released in plant available form, in the plants root zone, leading to a balanced and healthy ecosystem.
What Does A Healthy Soil Look Like Under The Microscope?
A healthy soil
A chemically treated soil
One healthy fungi strand but mostly bacteria with a dearth of Nematodes, Flagellates and Amoebe. Notice the difference in background colour compared with the healthy soil. Bacterially dominant soils are very common and generally indicate compaction; low air and water retention, poor nutrient cycling and minerals in the soil not available to the plants.
What are the benefits of A BioComplete™ Soil Food Web?
Synthetic fertlisers have been engineered as soluble nutrient salts to bypass soil biology and directly feed roots osmotically or by cation exchange.
As a result the biology is no longer required and most soils are deficient in significant parts of the Soil Food Web.
By restoring this web of microorganisms in the soil many of the macro and micro nutrients can be extracted from the sand, silt, clay, organic matter, rocks and pebbles. In exchange for carbohydrates produced by plants during photosynthesis and exuded out through the roots for bacteria and fungi, these organisms then supply the plants with their nutrient requirements in real time. Instead of just focusing on Nitrogen, Phosphate and Potassium (NPK) and maybe a few other nutrients such as Boron and Sulphur, practically all of the periodic table elements can be supplied in real time as the plants require them for growth or to ward off pests and disease.Â
Healthy soils therefore provide the following benefits:
- An increase in yields over time as biology improves
- higher food quality
- A Longer growing season due to greater water holding capacity of the soil. Â Increases profitability
- Healthy waterways from reduced run off
- Lower Pest and Weed control costs
- Reduced fertiliser costs
- Improved work environment without weed and pest control chemicals
- Increased biodiversity means a more resilient operation
- Healthy soils means healthy plants means healthy animals means healthy people and a healthy planet.
Samiran Banerjee in Nature magazine. (Soil microbiomes and one health)
What Does A BioComplete™ Soil Food Web Provide?
Nutrient Cycling
Nutrient cycling is a vital natural process if we have a well developed Soil Food Web. Nature does not waste. This means significantly reduced costs of the grower and farmer.
Good Soil Structure
Bacteria and fungi form glues that hold soil minerals together creating soils that can hold more water and air in the soil, decreasing erosion and increasing root depth for healthier plants and a longer growing season.
Weed Suppression
What we call weeds is natures solution to rebuild unhealthy soils. Healthy soils means our chosen plants outcompete ‘weeds’, saving money.
Pest and Disease Suppression
A healthy Soil Food Web delivers almost all of the 42 elements of the periodic table to plants in real time when required for healthy plants. When roots, leaves and stems are covered with beneficial microorganisms there is limited room for pests and disease-causing organisms which are out competed. Considerably lowering costs.
Fight Climate Change
Each year the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere reduces by around 8ppm during the Northern spring and summer when the deciduous trees in North America and Europe burst into leaf and start photosynthesising demonstrating the benefits of plants. As the microorganism population in the soil increases we grow microbial soil carbon, removing carbon from the atmosphere where it does so much harm and putting it into the soil where it does so much good. Perhaps the biggest contribution to fighting climate change is that by storing more water in the soil and having more living plants, respiration restores the small water cycle and water is by far and away the greatest greenhouse gas and responsible for more than 95% of the earths heat dynamics (CO2 is 4%). Restoring the small water cycle leads to heat being removed as water haze travels from green plants to space leading to cloud formation which leads to additional heat being reflected back into space, cooling the earth.
This Is Why
You Should Choose Us
Certified Experts
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Quality Services
Knowledge and experience to assess soil biology and implement amendments to optimise performance.
Affordable Pricing
Depending on your requirements the investment required can be modest.
Many Years of Experience in Gardening & Training
Many Years of Experience in Gardening & Training
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Recent Projects
Follow this experiment on a neighbours lawn. Â After spending hundreds of dollars on chemicals and fertilisers without getting the results desired, we roped off two test areas on the left which have not had any pest control or fertilisers and only had applications of compost extract and tea to support the biology. Results were evident after only 3 weeks.
