Carbon and Compost Crops Archives

Carbon and Compost Crops

We are very excited to be able to offer these carbon / compost crops that we have sourced that are either organic or being grown by farmers shifting to regenerative methods.

We have trialled different varieties and have come up with mixes suitable for use in home garden situations where no machinery is being used. A very different situation to large farms where huge machinery turns the crops back into the ground.

Please note that at this point it is the vetch, and the black oats that are from NZ farms switching to Regen Ag, and the wheat and rye is certified Biogro, the rest of these carbon crop seeds are not organically grown. All other seeds in our catalog are organically and regeneratively grown.

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Classic Biointensive Mix
$17.80
A mix of wheat, rye, vetch and tic (faba) beans. The mix that John Jeavons of Biointensive (Ecology Action) fame said gave the fastest soil building results.

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Common Vetch
$13.10
FAMILY: Fabaceae

GENUS: Vicia

SPECIES: villosa

An annual pasture, forage and grain legume, great in a vege garden as a compost crop, alone or in a mix

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Peas & Oats
$13.10
A mix of Black Oats and peas – a great combination as a grass with a legume creates soil building synergy!

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Perennial patch
$24.00
A mix of Sainfoin, Alfalfa, Sweet Yellow Clover, Crimson Clover and Vetch. Colourful biennial, perennial, or self seeding legumes and herbs that could make up a perennial border around your vege garden, to harvest throughout the Summer to mulch your veges, or to leave to flower to attract and feed the insects or both.

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Wild and free
$16.30
Wild and Free for the earth, the insects, our senses, all soils and all seasons. A mix of oats, rye, vetch, blue lupins and crimson clover. Ideal as a compost/carbon crop that will build soil for the following crop, and support wider ecological health as well as bee and insect food

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