It's been too long since I've written here, and it's been too long since I've written. I want to get back, let's see if I can. That's my intention. Because I'm doing some really cool and bizarre things in the garden, look at the flowers I have there!

So awesome the other day. My daughter comes to visit me and I tell her I want to show her the compost, and I put the thermometer in and it goes up to 60°, 60 of yours, C!! It had that special smell of hot compost. These days my compost is very complete: layers of weeds, a couple of buckets of sawdust, a bucket of bokashi with my homemade inoculant (made of rice water fermented with milk and stored with other sawdust), with a layer of biochar made on the stove and inoculated with pee (!) and also compost, another layer of greens and more sawdust, then some ashes even though the stove's season is already slowing down as the temperatures rise, and more and more piles of weeds since my garden is very, uh, alive, and all in all it is a very cool, very warm, very alive compost pile. Next to it, there is six-month-old compost that already has that earthy smell, even though it wants a couple more months before I will spread it in the garden.

La gran novetat a l'hort ara, a part dels espàrrecs i cebes, és l'adob verd que vaig comprar a les Refardes a la tardor. Ve de Can Pauet de Berga, inspirat per tots els experiments que fa l'Ernest a Verdcamps a Cambrils. Cada any quan ensenya els seus camps ple de verd a aquesta época de l'any tenia una enveja terrible, i ara en lloc d'enveja, tinc adob verd propi, amb una mica extra de facèlia que m'agraden molt les flors que té. Jo no tinc cap roller-crimper com l'Ernest, el seu tractor m'aixafaria tot l'hort sense ni enjegar-se, jo faré servir un tauló d'aquí un parell de setmanes per aixafar l'adobe verd per començar a plantar-hi carabasses i altres coses!

The big news in the garden now, apart from the buckets of asparagus and onions, is the green manure that I bought from Les Refardes in the autumn. It originally comes from Can Pauet de Berga. I am always so inspired by the experiments that Ernest does at Verdcamps in Cambrils. Every year when he shows off his fields full of green at this time of year I have been terribly envious, and now instead of envy, I have my own green manure, with a little extra phacelia that has these purple flowers I really like. I don't have a roller-crimper like Ernest, his tractor would crush my whole garden without having to move an inch. I will use a wood board in a couple of weeks to crush the green manure and then start planting pumpkins and other things!

These days I'm studying Korean natural farming (KNF), and I've started making some of the different concoctions there are: FAA (fish amino acids) and fermented plant juice (FPJ). But what I really want to do is IMO1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 (I think!) that is, indigenous microorganisms. All of this is to nourish the soil and fill it with microorganisms that help the plant take advantage of the nutrients that are there.

This article is a start, but I'm hoping to come back with details and more photos. If you are interested in making a (smallish) regenerative garden using the scraps you have (practically everything, from kitchen scraps, bones, egg and shellfish shells, sawdust, weeds and everything), then I will be here to keep you company.