Articles: soil health
Optimize Your Soil with Cover Cropping
Make use of these slow gardening months by preparing your soil for the year ahead! Cover cropping creates nutrient-rich soil…
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Rock & Grow: Adding Local Rocks & Soil To Your Garden
Looking for ways to naturally enrich your garden? The answer is all around you….literally. Add local rocks & soil to…
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Soil Is Alive: What Lives In Our Soil?
Ever wonder what worms and centipedes are doing as they crawl through your soil? They’re actually working to improve the soil’s…
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The Soil Of A Nation: How To Save Our Soil
“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all.” —Wendell Berry, The Art of the…
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Food for Your Garden: Starting a Traditional Compost Pile in Your Yard
As a society, we make a lot of waste, especially in this culture of on-the-go single-serve disposables. What can we…
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5 Uses for the Mighty Woodchip
Very often, the best things come in small packages, and the humble woodchip is no exception. We’re all familiar with…
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How Cattle Grazing Improves Soil Diversity: Saving Our Soil
In Our Wild Farming Life, Lynn Cassells and Sandra Baer recount their experiences as they create Lynbreck Croft—a regenerative Scottish farm…
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Resilience and the Lost Art of Agricultural Inventiveness
After twenty years in academia, Michael Foley began farming first in southern Maryland, and then in Willits, California, where he,…
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Care of the Soil
Caring for the soil is the farmer’s number one task; if the soil is healthy, the crops will look after…
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