permaculture

["L. Santoyo" <santoyo@earthflow.com>]

Lawrence and Carmenza- thanks...

This is great- another byproduct/nutrient recycling/stacking/next best use-
permaculture story for me...

LL, when you find the photo's of the processing let us know... I'll be
teaching (and learning!) at a design course with Scott Pittman at a place in
Mexico with similar practices. The Tosepan Titataniske Cooperative, in the
northern mountainous region of Puebla, Mexico- where the coffee is a
by-product of their biodiversity management program.

Before coffee can be grown for the coop, every farm provides habitat for a
list of more than 150 plant and 180 bird species. Coffee is cultivated on
their own lands, based on traditional systems.  They too go on to grow
mushrooms in the coffee substrate- then use the spent medium for soil
amendments.

The Tosepan Titataniske Cooperative is an ecovillage in every sense- not
only natural buildings and biological waste water treatment but is complete
with local economic development- including a construction and civil
engineering company and industries surrounding the of cultivation of timber
bamboo, curing & processing for use in their bamboo housing construction
company and bamboo furniture factory. In addition to coffee, mushrooms, and
bamboo- they produce black pepper, citrus, macadamia, cinnamon, raw sugar
and raw honey.

33% of the proceeds go to the cooperative...
Register for the The Tosepan Titataniske Cooperative Permaculture Course
APRIL 10-25, 2011:
http://www.covolv.org/covolv-trainingretreats/

Watch the video:
http://vimeo.com/19619175

Permaculture and Sustainability tours at Tosepan Titataniske Cooperative:
http://suddhaprem.com/

More upcoming courses:
http://earthflow.com/blog/permaculture-courses

Larry
http://earthflow.com



On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Lawrence F. London, Jr. <
venaurafarm@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Q: Name the following:
> A famous world class permaculture/integrated, diversified farming
> organization in the country of Colombia. I once visited a website for that
> or a similar organization and saved text and photos but now can not find
> them. This was an exemplary project. They grew coffee and other
> tree/perennial crops, processed them for market/home use and recycled the
> waste biomass products to make mushroom spawn via the compost pile for an
> additional source of income. They really have it together. Could it be
> Gaviotas or some other group/perma-eco-community?
>
> From a FB message from KD:
> "Carmenza Jaramillo and CENICAFE.
> Shuting Chang did the original research establishing te shitake would grow
> on coffee waste substrate. Ivanka Milenkovic used the spent substrate for
> animal feed in a later iteration of the model, and then Chido Govero took it
> to Zimbabwe and added a community component to establish income for orphans
> living in poverty."
>
> Carmenza Jaramillo López
> Project Leader
> Jaramillo et al. (1998) determined that the agro-industrial residues
> present in the coffee growing region of Colombia could be used as substrates
> for the cultivation of tropical mushrooms, such as Lentinula edodes,
> Pleurotus sajor-caju, Pleurotus florida, Hypsizygus marmoreus, and Ganoderma
> lucidum.
> Agricultural wastes, such as coffee pulp, coffee leaves, rice bran and
> cotton hulls proved to be technically adequate substrates for the
> cultivation of mushrooms of the genus Pleurotus, because of the times and
> the percentage of mycelial invasion found in the incubation phase.
> It was determined that agro-industrial residues like spent ground coffee
> stem saw-dust, oak saw-dust, and corn bran are adequate materials for the
> cultivation of the mushrooms Lentinula edodes, Hypsizygus marmoreus and
> Ganoderma lucidum.
> In 1999, Jaramillo reported average biological efficiencies between 60% and
> 75% in the cultivation of Lentinula edodes on coffee by-products; and
> biological efficiencies between 16% and 24% in the cultivation of Ganoderma
> lucidum on an enhanced formula in the year 2000. Jaramillo reported average
> biological efficiencies of 61% in the cultivation of the fungus Pleurotus
> sajor-cajou on coffee silver skin. During the year 2000, Rodriguez reported
> average biological efficiencies of 24.2% in the cultivation of Ganoderma
> lucidum on residues in the coffee-growing region of Colombia. The same
> author reported average biological efficiencies of 23.1% in the cultivation
> of Pleurotus ostreatus on a substrate based on coffee pulp and water
> Jacinth.
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