We visited the patch of land that we have access to in Springston today and started to plan the regenerative agriculture trial, plant out about 100 sunflowers in two different areas and to review the soil.

One discovery was that in the untreated grass area that we are hoping to plant and transform into a market garden is that this area appeared to be thistle free, while the area just to its right where a weedkiller has been used by the farmer, thistles are coming back with vengeance. Check out the video.

Here are photos of the in the two areas, and our other findings were generally disappointing:

  1. Our untreated area

Surface insects = watched the ground carefully for 2 minutes, discovered no movement.
Sub-surface insects = dug in a spade depth, watched the ground carefully for 2 minutes, discovered no movement.

2. The other treated area

Surface insects = watched the ground carefully for 2 minutes, discovered 1 sandfly type insect moving.
Sub-surface insects = dug in a spade depth, watched the ground carefully for 2 minutes, discovered no movement.