Wonder what we're doing?
We're growing a mini forest using the Miyawaki Method!
Wonder what we're doing?
We're growing a mini forest using the Miyawaki Method!
What is the Miyawaki Method?
Named after Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki who invented it, it involves planting several species very close together in a small space. The plants draw nutrients from each other, communicating through the mycorrhizal network, speeding up the growing process. Trees grow 10 times faster, absorb 30 times more carbon dioxide and the density is 30 times that of normal tree plantations.
Miyawaki Method Cornerstones
Soil Preparation
Mycorrhizal Network
Soil Preparation
Soil preparation is one of the cornerstones of the Miyawaki methodology and the stage that takes the most time and effort. Results are linked to the care that’s put in!
The end goal is to produce a forest floor type soil - where the texture is friable, almost spongy, with water and carbon retention balanced. Most importantly a thriving healthy soil biology is supported.
Soil Health
Mycorrhizal Network
Soil Preparation
These days more and more of our soils are becoming bacterially dominant due to human actions and ecosystem disruptions. Within nature soils slowly evolve from heavily bacterial to a balanced bacteria to fungi ratio and finally through to fungal dominant. Sadly human actions and practices are pushing the balance back the wrong way.
With t
These days more and more of our soils are becoming bacterially dominant due to human actions and ecosystem disruptions. Within nature soils slowly evolve from heavily bacterial to a balanced bacteria to fungi ratio and finally through to fungal dominant. Sadly human actions and practices are pushing the balance back the wrong way.
With this method, collaboration is initially a hive of activity underground. The young saplings establishing symbiotic friendships with their mycorrhizal fungi that benefit all involved - trees, fungi, microbes and general soil health.
Fungi
Mycorrhizal Network
Mycorrhizal Network
Trees want to grow in fungal dominant soil that allows the symbiotic relationships with beneficial fungi to form and leads to healthy, vibrant long term growth.
The close spacing of the native saplings of a Miyawaki forest means the root systems will quickly knit together with the help of the mychorrizal fungi. This takes growth to a
Trees want to grow in fungal dominant soil that allows the symbiotic relationships with beneficial fungi to form and leads to healthy, vibrant long term growth.
The close spacing of the native saplings of a Miyawaki forest means the root systems will quickly knit together with the help of the mychorrizal fungi. This takes growth to a new level as the saplings interact and grow as one ecosystem rather than individuals.
Mycorrhizal Network
Mycorrhizal Network
Mycorrhizal Network
Mycelium are incredibly tiny “threads” of the greater fungal organism that wrap around or bore into tree roots. Taken together, mycelium composes what’s called a “mycorrhizal network,” which connects individual plants together to transfer water, nitrogen, carbon and other minerals. German forester Peter Wohlleben dubbed this network the
Mycelium are incredibly tiny “threads” of the greater fungal organism that wrap around or bore into tree roots. Taken together, mycelium composes what’s called a “mycorrhizal network,” which connects individual plants together to transfer water, nitrogen, carbon and other minerals. German forester Peter Wohlleben dubbed this network the “woodwide web,” as it is through the mycelium that trees “communicate.”