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Peat moss 🌱 Soil & Medium

The primary base of the BAS living soil recipe — approximately 50% by volume. Sourced fresh from Canada, pre-fluffed through BAS's peat-fluffing machine. Jeremy prefers peat over coco coir for multiple sustainability and shipping reasons.

Jeremy describes it as 'basically like a fossilized forest' and defends its sustainability using Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss Association data of less than two percent mined over decades.

Discussed in: Ep 003 · Ep 009

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