Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@charlesdowding Here, I'm dry-farming potatoes in sawdust mulch. The mulch from a local mill: I'm in logging country. Our climate hereabouts 'Mediterranean' - we have entirely dry summers. No supplemental irrigation whatsoever. Worth watching for the results. youtu.be/SiK6IeMZEQU

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Quoted by11/ All told? Using an untested, fiercely original approach, we got lucky. Very lucky. Later, we were invited to describe our technique at the best-attended track of the following year's OSU Small Farms Conference. Here, my first youtube video, on any subject, to go ‘viral’.Quoted by@AndrewMillison 4/ Standing at the avant-garde edgeline of visionary approaches to water-use strategies in droughty conditions, the DFI has assembled an unorthodox, co-creative partnership of growers, extension educators, plant breeders, agricultural professionals, horticulturalists and others.