{"id":35256,"date":"2018-06-19T08:01:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T13:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35256"},"modified":"2018-06-19T08:01:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T13:01:59","slug":"what-to-do-with-bad-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35256","title":{"rendered":"What to do With Bad Soil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"post-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_4594-690x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"690\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/2018\/06\/08\/what-to-do-with-bad-soil\/\">WHAT TO DO WITH BAD SOIL<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>After watching the sun set and the full moon rise atop my neighbour Sergey\u2019s hill which overlooks the entire eco-village, he walks me back to my tent hidden in the midst of young pine trees upon the insistence of his mother (\u201cYou need to walk the young lady all the way to the door of her tent, you hear me?\u201d). His cat Murka (Moor-kah, meaning purr-cat) follows her human grandma\u2019s instructions too, inspecting my tent before heading back home. She spends her summers in the village roaming free and overwinters in a Kiev apartment. When it\u2019s time for her to ride to the village every spring, she stands on the car seat and looks out the window, getting extremely animated for the last 30 minutes of the trip.<\/p>\n<p>Sergey and I walk in the moonlight trying to find where I pitched my tent on my newly purchased 5-acre (2-hectare) plot located about an hour-and-a-half ride west of Kiev, Ukraine\u2019s capital. Our feet sink into the soft sand, dry plant stalks crunch under our feet. Sergey sighs: \u201cThere\u2019s so much work that needs to be done here\u201d. I cringe at the sound of that, but I don\u2019t know yet why. It takes me another day to understand why I don\u2019t agree with him.<\/p>\n<div class=\"g g-1\">\n<div class=\"g-single a-34\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-43476 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_4446-300x178.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_4446-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_4446-1024x606.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_4446.jpg 1200w\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"274\" \/><em>Before our cabin arrived, I slept in a tent, hidden in the emerging pine forest. None of these trees were here 9 years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-43477 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_4593-300x225.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_4593-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_4593-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_4593.jpg 1200w\" alt=\"\" width=\"383\" height=\"287\" \/><em>The abundance of herbs and insects in the midst of pine trees<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The phrase \u201cgreen thumb\u201d doesn\u2019t even begin to describe Sergey\u2019s talent when it comes to plants.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT TO DO WITH BAD SOIL After watching the sun set and the full moon rise atop my neighbour Sergey\u2019s hill which overlooks the entire eco-village, he walks me back to my tent hidden in the midst of young pine trees upon the insistence of his mother (\u201cYou need to walk the young lady all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[20571,622,8748,1091,1536],"class_list":["post-35256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-anya-zelinska","tag-permaculture","tag-permaculture-news","tag-soil","tag-soil-fertility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35257,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35256\/revisions\/35257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}