You mean to tell me this whole time I’ve been making funky compost, it could crank a crankshaft?? Meaning, in this episode we discuss how we arrived at our next experiment, Anaerobic Digestion and the creation and opportunity of Biomethane. Enjoy!

• Works Referenced:
  • Composts
    • When Odors Warn: What Does the Nose Know?
    • Microbes with characteristic smells (good and bad)
    • Researchers Find Pathogens in Compost
  • Philosophical Background
  • Anaerobic Digestion
    • Digestate
    • Digeponics
    • Circular food: crops from digested waste in a controlled environment
    • Energy Fields Biogas Production – Botswana
    • Kenyan Farmers Make Use of Biogas
    • Biogas in St. Vincent and the Grenadines
    • Solar CITIES IBC Biogas System Tutorial Complete
    • How we run our 4K generator on Biogas
    • Compressing Biogas into a BBQ Bottle
      • Propane tank for us in the USA
    • Biogas scrubbers – removing the CO2 and H2S – part 1
    • HOW TO COMPRESS BIOGAS IN CYLINDER B
    • How do you purify biogas to increase the methane content?
    • Biogas at home Cheap and Easy
  • Hydrothermal Vent – Black Smokers and White Smokers

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• Where have you been??!
• Dr. Isaac Zama – Amba Farmer’s Voice Part 3
• Dr. Isaac Zama – Amba Farmer’s Voice pt 2
• Dr. Isaac Zama – Amba Farmer’s Voice pt 1
• Urban Agriculture and Climate Change: “The New Normal”

Transcript (automated)

Peace,

I am Mason Olonade and this is Jìgìjìgì: Africulture Podcast. Here we believe building a healthy soil builds a healthy soul, so we share strategies for how to do both. To do both we ask two questions: How do you grow while you grow Kale, Collards, Tomatoes, and Melons? And why, do you think, the healthiest soils are Black?

Smelling Funk to Power

Given that you are listening to my show, you may have heard the people in the natural farming circles say that compost shouldn’t smell. Or you may have heard that healthy compost will smell fresh, like petrichor, or geosmin. Others like me, have said that compost can smell sweet!

We sought to investigate these claims, because, well we couldn’t let our nose grow any longer. We couldn’t possibly give up the funk. What we found was extremely surprising and vindicating.

It was the end of Okra season and lots of it lay in the path. The plants had either been cut or pulled out of the row and began to slime and rot. The Carolina Clay, Rain, and footsteps reduced this once 8ft tall stand into green traction over a muddy area.

It must be cleaned up. So for the next two hours we cut okra off of the plant and put it in a bucket. Despite taking my allergy pill that morning, nature, with enough exposure finds a way to overcome antihistamines and those okra hairs enable your mast cells to express themselves. Taking a shower afterwards felt painfully good with th...

In our final episode in the series of Bioremediation, we finally express the reasons why we shared this information and reviewed the overall point of these practices.

• Works referenced
  • Rhizofiltration and Rhizodegradation – Helping Nature Do His Thing part 3
  • Bioextraction/Phytostabilization – Helping Nature Do Her Thing Part 2
  • Bioremediation – Helping Nature Do It’s Thing
  • Soil Mycoremediation: A New, Native-Fungi Approach (2019)
  • Blue Milky aka Lactarius indigo
  • Blewit
  • Mandela
  • Shrooms? In My Buckets??

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Thank you for listening to
Jìgìjìgì ߖߜ߭ߌ߬ߖߜ߭ߌ߬

• Where have you been??!
• Dr. Isaac Zama – Amba Farmer’s Voice Part 3
• Dr. Isaac Zama – Amba Farmer’s Voice pt 2
• Dr. Isaac Zama – Amba Farmer’s Voice pt 1
• Urban Agriculture and Climate Change: “The New Normal”

Transcript (automated)

Peace,

I am Mason Olonade and this is Jìgìjìgì: Africulture Podcast. Here we believe building a healthy soil builds a healthy soul, so we share strategies for how to do both. To do both we ask two questions: How do you grow while you grow Kale, Collards, Tomatoes, and Melons. And why, do you think, the healthiest soils are Black?

Bioremediation Wrap Up: Helping Nature do the Damn Thing

In producing these episodes I’ve learned a lot and I hope you have too. It may not have been the clearest, I’m known to be a lil obtuse, so I just want to summarize some of the points.

We discussed some ways to clean our soils and build our soils at the same time. Why is this important? Why here?

Our communities, our lands, especially in suburban and doubly so in our urban environments will be among the most affected by pollution. As we mentioned before, where Mandela and I were growing near Howard University had been a previous spot where people cut corners and dumped lead pain chips into someone else’s backyard with no repercussions. Although I have no evidence for this, I am likely to believe that this has happened quite often in our communities.

Figuring out ways for us to be able to extract, sequester, or release these toxins from our soil is just as important as using the vegetables we grow to rid the toxins from within our bodies. Figuring out ways to do this with the least expenses incurred is also necessary for our community. We’ve shown studies that demonstrate certain composts can become chelators and transform the chemistry of these toxins, facilitating better uptake by your plants while improving the structure and health of the soil at the same time!

The caveat is that bioremediation takes time! It takes an entire season for Sunflowers to grow and accumulate enough biomass to store this lead in its tissue after removing it from the soils. Generally lead is stored in the more aerial parts of the plant, so as we discussed before, taking the grown sunflower to the municipal dump is one of the ways to extract the lead from your soils.

As we continue our conversations about urban agriculture, sustainability, regeneration, food policy and food justice, it is also our responsibility to grow clean soils in order to grow healthy soils.

I was very pleased to know that there is established and highly scientific literature out about building mycoremediation reactors. Although the presentation that we’re highlighting doesn’t go into detail about the construction of the myco-reactors, my understanding of the talk leads me to believe that they are constructed quite similarly to what I described in the episodes Rhizofiltration and Remediation, and Shrooms? In My buckets?

Since moving here to Charlotte we’ve collected many different species of fungi that we’ve added to our myco-reactors like Blewits, Blue Milkys, and other mushrooms we’ve never seen before. Per...

We take umbrage with the promoted hippie-nature of interacting with nature. We offer some molecular biology of course to make our point. Enjoy.

• Works Referenced
  • Tomatoland
  • ߛߊ߲ߞߐߝߊ (Sankɔfa) – JP024
  • Calcium Oxalate crystals formed within the leaves of the Acacia in response to herbivory

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Thank you for listening to
Jìgìjìgì ߖߜ߭ߌ߬ߖߜ߭ߌ߬

• Where have you been??!
• Dr. Isaac Zama – Amba Farmer’s Voice Part 3
• Dr. Isaac Zama – Amba Farmer’s Voice pt 2
• Dr. Isaac Zama – Amba Farmer’s Voice pt 1
• Urban Agriculture and Climate Change: “The New Normal”

Transcript

Traditional Afrikan Spiritual Systems are at the foundation of an “African Natural Farming” technique. Wait a second, are we sure there isn’t a name for that already?

• Works mentioned:
  • Che Axum’s appearance on Jìgìjìgì
  • Silver Sprung’s appearace on Jìgìjìgì
  • Towards ANF
  • Our Instagram page, for the Philosophical Backgrounds post
  • Brother Obsa Sabbona’s Instagram Page
  • Philosophical Background
  • Ifá Divination Poetry
  • Our Ifá Ẹsẹ Page, the collection of Future Wisdom Literature of ߍ߬ߣߌ߬ (È̩NÌ)

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Thank you for listening to
Jìgìjìgì ߖߜ߭ߌ߬ߖߜ߭ߌ߬

• Where have you been??!
• Dr. Isaac Zama – Amba Farmer’s Voice Part 3
• Dr. Isaac Zama – Amba Farmer’s Voice pt 2
• Dr. Isaac Zama – Amba Farmer’s Voice pt 1
• Urban Agriculture and Climate Change: “The New Normal”

Transcript (automated)

MO 0:00
Pease, I am Mason Olonade and this is jJìgìjìgì Africulture podcast. Here we believe building a healthy soil builds a healthy soul. So we share strategies for how to do both. To do both, we asked two questions. How do you grow while you grow kale, collards, tomatoes and melons? And why do you think the healthiest soils and black?

MO 0:27
Se so werefina, wosankofa yenkyi. It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten. We asked Che Axum his favorite plant related proverb and he said simply, sankofa. His answer was intriguing as you may remember, and if you haven’t listened, you should go back and fetch it.

MO 0:54
As we look ahead, of course, we reflect on our surroundings and where we have been we Of course, quote ourselves. It has been in search of a refined and replicable agricultural strategy for us black folks that points towards an African natural farming practice. Where would we be without the act of sankofa? We went back because we knew we put forth an interesting definition somewhere. Of course, we posted on we posted it on our Instagram for the philosophical background episode. Again, we caught ourselves the Yoruba definition of agriculture is eko nipa iroko the art of cultivating the soil.

MO 1:46
It now makes sense for the process of sankofa to no longer call the technique African natural farming here at Jìgìjìgì everything we do points towards a standardized geographically independent and replicable technique known as eko nipa iroko, the art of cultivating the soil or ENI for short. We appreciate you are loving sibling of the soil for helping us come to that evolution of thought. This is what family is for.

MO 2:27
Speaking of family, we had an extremely thought provoking conversation with our talented brother, musician, also sivanna. He encouraged us to remember and to trust the process of sankofa we then opened up to a random page and divination poetry by Wande Abimbola. Within the Odu Ifa there are many, many ese or poems. You may remember from our conversation with Silver Sprung. There are no such things as coincidences. There are only co incidences. If you don’t remember, it is not taboo to go back and fetch it.

MO 3:11
What we found astounded us. We found the cotton plant.

MO 3:18
Olosee Ifa priest of farmland performed divination for the cotton plant, who was losing all her children by premature death. The cotton plant inquired from her Ifa priests, what she must do in order that her children might survive, and so that the inhabitants of the earth would not give her any trouble. She was told to perform sacrifice after the cotton plant performs sacrifice our enemies sent small particles of rain to go and destroy her, as well as her children. But it was at this time that the cotton plant started to produce new leaves. Enemies then sent severe dewdrops to go and destroy her. But that was exactly when she started to produce new flowers and seeds. At last, they sent the sun to go and destroy the cotton plant....

To conclude the illustrious interview with Dr. Isaac Zama we begin our talk about “Humanure” and we receive our challenge for 2022!

• Works Referenced
  • Amba Farmer’s Voice
  • Amba Farmer’s Voice Facebook Page
  • Amba Farmer’s Voice YouTube Channel
    • How to Make Your Own Organic Fertilizer With Urine (Piss) Part 1
  • Ambazonia
  • Future Fertility: Transforming Human Waste into Human Wealth
  • Urine fertilizer: ‘Aging’ effectively protects against transfer of antibiotic resistance
  • Urine fertilizer: ‘Aging’ effectively protects against transfer of antibiotic resistance – ScienceDaily.com
  • Advancing Technologies and Improving Communication of Urine-Derived Fertilizers for Food Production within a Risk-Based Framework
  • UC Davis Chimney Solar Dryer
  • Dr. Amos Wilson on the purpose of education.
  • Akissi Stokes’ Wundergrubs
  • Episode #78: Adam Chappell
  • Post Traumatic Slavery Syndrome
  • UDC CAUSES
  • Mchezaji “Che” Axum

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Thank you for listening to
Jìgìjìgì ߖߜ߭ߌ߬ߖߜ߭ߌ߬

• Where have you been??!
• Dr. Isaac Zama – Amba Farmer’s Voice Part 3
• Dr. Isaac Zama – Amba Farmer’s Voice pt 2
• Dr. Isaac Zama – Amba Farmer’s Voice pt 1
• Urban Agriculture and Climate Change: “The New Normal”

Transcript (automated)

Dr. Isaac Zama 1:53:16
What is one question I wish asked me that could would I eat something that came out of poop?

MO 1:53:35
Okay, would you eat something that came out of poop?

Dr. Isaac Zama 1:53:38
Absolutely. Because you know what? Poop is very, very organic. Absolutely. Because poop comes from the human body. Except it is mixed with external organisms. That is when it becomes dangerous. But just coming out from you is not dangerous. I’ll give an example. When we’re growing up, when you go to the farm, and you’re bitten by a snake, your mom or your dad, they will force you, you pee. And do you drink that pee right there. And as soon as you drink that pee in neutralizes the venom of the snake. Yes, oh yes. Wow. Your mom though. I don’t know what to but you pee don’t mix up. mothers know how to do that.

Yeah, yeah. They will make you to pee and or force you or you drink it and in utilizes the venom in the snake. I really don’t know whether it is all kinds of snake, or all kinds of venom for that, I don’t know. But, you know, for those of us who grew up where I grew up, that was a common practice, it was passed down from generation to generation. So if you go to the farm and you’re bitten by a snake, the first thing that you will do is, you know, make up and, you know, you know, you’re an endo dog give you the pee, or you drink that before, before they’re trying to take you back home, you know, to either give you a secondary treatment or ticket ticket to the clinic or to the hospital. So that was the first aid. So, you know, asking me if, you know, what was question that you wish that I, they asked me, I think that maybe something about the valorization of our indigenous knowledge, Oh, hmm. That, that that can, you know, help us even within the domain of agriculture, or just, you know, us as humans living. So, you know, the, some of the some of the things that we as humans we, we, we produce, by by police, I mean, things like urine, thi...