Ffydd yn y pridd is a social enterprise working with biochar, rock dust, compost and field scale microbial amendments. We are passionate about soil health. Our aims are to produce soil care products from locally sourced materials, to provide education and research in natural soil health for farmers, small holders and gardeners.
Biochar has a highly porous structure which retains water, improves soil structure and can act as a fertiliser once inoculated.
Rockdust can be applied directly to soil to increase the availability of nutrients and micronutrients to plants
We create naturally microbially rich inoculated composts from the by-products of farming, providing fertility from waste materials.
Biochar has a highly porous structure which retains water, improves soil structure and can act as a fertiliser once inoculated.
This film documents our work with Pantirion Farm, a 400 acre farm in St Dogmaels, West Wales, which grows a mixture of herbal lays and fodder crops for livestock. It is an exposed coastal site with clay soil. Lyn Evans has been working the land for 50 or more years. Up until recently he used conventional fertilisers to replace nutrients in the soil, but in recent years rising costs have made natural alternatives more appealing. Biofertilisers are non- chemically synthesised fertilisers which contain living micro-organisms to help stimulate plant growth and soil health. Used correctly they have the potential to replace, or partly replace chemical fertilisers.
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