• $52 or 2 monthly payments of $28

Floral Compost Activator (research group)

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  • Course
  • 31 Lessons
  • Includes 1 additional product

Rather than a traditional course, this is a space for sharing research, hosting Zoom calls, and collaborating on projects. The content will evolve as we engage in discussions, share insights, and learn together. Over time, it may shift to formats like public blogs or a WhatsApp group. I created this as a holding space for our collective growth. NZ$52 (approx. USD31).

Contents

Welcome - more information about the methodology and a free download to get you started

Hello and welcome!

If you are new to this work, then I recommend beginning by reading Maye Bruce's book 'Common Sense Compost Making: the Quick Return Method', there's a pdf download with the link in this first section.

Once you've had a look through, if you feel it's something you'd like to support, then please join the group.

Additional financial support is always welcome via the Blue Borage Ko-Fi page, which is located here: https://ko-fi.com/blueborage

Scholarships are available for those who wish to join in and don't have the means to enrol.

Free download to get started
Preview
Welcome - how this course is set up
Google Calendar, Zoom calls & link to book a 1:1 call with Katrina

Katrina's 'Blue Borage' method with Maye Bruce's recipe: it's not identical to how Maye Bruce made compost. The key takeaway is the activator itself.

Each person will have their own approach when following the recipe in Maye Bruce's book, and their own composting systems in place.

For me, the floral compost activator began as a midsummer meditation, with the mixtures made in glass bottles on my meditation table. They are surrounded by crystals, I use a sound healing tuning fork tuned to the frequency of Jupiter, and there is always a vase of flowers nearby, and an overall spirit of reverence.

What flowers I'm using

Katrina's first batches at the Blue Borage Soil Farm: I'm using more than the six 'biodynamic' herbs

Simple documentation of the first few trial batches and my observations as I opened the compost piles and started using the soil.

Batch #1: Friday 17th January 2025
Batch #2: Monday 20th January 2025
Batch #3: Saturday 8th February 2025
Batch #4: Wednesday 12 February 2025
Batches #5 & #6: Sunday 16th February 2025
Batch #7 & 7a: 26 February 2025
Batch #8: 4 March 2025, to use with Harakeke compost
Batch #9: Monday 10th March, 2025
Batch #10: Woodhouse Farm Organics Mulch pile (text coming soon)
Batch #11: Peach pit compost
Batch #12: Humanure Compost (adding to the compost toilet inside)
Batch #13 Monday 21st April 2025: Made Cafe Soil Story
Batch #14: Harakeke blend with a larger volume (9th May 2025)

Please share your experiments

There will be many, many applications for this work, and my hope is that we form a network or community of people sharing their ideas with each other.

Add comments to this lesson, or send an email to katrina@blueborage.co.nz

Is anyone else around the world using this method?

A section to promote 'Quick Return' Compost Activator makers and sellers. Please let me know if there's anyone who should be included: katrina@blueborage.co.nz

Germany
England
Sweden

Zoom Call Recordings: weekly updates on the preparations for the international biodynamic research conference presentation

26th April 2025 - Katrina describing Batches 1-13 in detail
4th May 2025: Katrina reading from Chapter 2, chatting about upcoming research conference in England
11th May 2025: weekly research updates + reading from Chapter 2 about scientific scepticism
15th May 2025: Kate Heming Panchal joined Katrina, weekly updates & shared hopes for the research
23rd May 2025: Batches 16 & 17, lots of updates on the global promotion
1st June 2025: New trial with the mixture as a food for seedlings
7th June 2025: Video demonstration of how to make two types of compost activator (dried flowers & fresh flowers)
Sunday 15th June 2025: 'The Flower Project' commences

Other resources

Resources, links, information that doesn't fit into the other sections.

Rongoa (herbs) for composting Harakeke (NZ Flax)

Insights from our global colleagues

This is a research group with a difference - we are working on community building, both among our fellow home gardeners, and area also ever so excited about the potential of this simple remedy for commercial growers, urban waste management, mortality composting and much more. In the spirit of Rudolf Steiner's 'social motto', here's the section where we bounce ideas off of a wide range of colleagues.

Social motto:

"A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living"

Meet James Millton (biodynamic winegrower & winemaker) 20th May 2025