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Morag Gamble from Our Permaculture Life (www.ourpermacu...) and the Permaculture Education Institute (permacultureed...) explains the amazing benefits of Azolla for food, fibre, fuel, fodder, mulch, fertiliser, carbon drawdown and more.
It is incredible at making the most superb compost in such short time ! Scoop it out of the water, pile it up and wait a week - that's it. It makes the soil dark and rich and plants are thriving with it.
Azolla has been around since the time of the dinosaurs and is able to fix nitrogen and drawdown carbon. It is an abundant water plant that fixes nitrogen in a symbiotic relationship with the bacteria, Anabaena, which has been around for possibly 2 billion years.
Azolla is one of the fastest growing plants in the world that cleans the water as it grows. Some say it will be critical for the future of food production when fossil fuels are less accessible to make fertilisers.
In this film, Morag is out in the pond harvesting Azolla with her family and talks about this amazing plant.
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