VIDEO: Damn, I disturbed a little rainworm who was taking its afternoon siesta in my garden ■ VLOG #2

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As promised in my last video, I will take you once again on a digging adventure, trying to show you what on earth – and you can take that one quite literally – I have to deal with when it comes to the quality of my soil and its layers underneath. The first digging attempt in my previous vlog video didn’t quite show it that well, so I sincerely hope that I will be able to show you the layer of quite pure quartz sand in this one. Oh no, I have disturbed a little rainworm who was taking his afternoon siesta and quite frankly, just minding its own business before me and my little shovel entered the picture. Oooh, I give up. For now, you will just have to take my word for it, this so-called soil is nothing but pre-baked glass. Besides the fact that this hidden layer of pure white quartz sand makes for larger natural fluctuations of the temperature, it also means that the soil above is barren, arid, dry, withered, dead, droughty, in short, useless except when you would like to produce your own glass, which you can by the way at the glass workshop center located in the city of Lommel in Belgium. I’ll leave a link to their website in the description box for those of you who would like to give the art of glass blowing a try. But, as you might have guessed by now, this unfertile layer of quartz sand, in spite of how valuable it may seem for other purposes than growing food, is giving me, who would really like to grow some food, some sleepless nights. Because I will have to fertilize my top soil big time before diving deep into the process of putting seeds into the ground and wait for them to produce food. Real food, not GMO food, not pesticide sprayed food, not hasty spurred malnutricious food. If the saying “what you are is what you eat” contains any truth in it, well, then I am in a whole lot of trouble. Don’t get me wrong here, I do eat my veggies and sometimes a little piece of fruit, but even though they may or may not be organically grown, how can I, as a consumer know what the real nutritional value is of those grocery store bought items? One short answer? I can’t. And that’s the end of it. Now, before you jump into any conclusions here, don’t you ever confuse me for one single moment with an all-healthy, no-fat, no-carb, no-gluten, no-sugar diet freak, hell no, mama needs her daily oversized portion of coffee and chocolate, and sometimes a little big bag of salty potato chips too, depending on the time of the, well, let’s just say, the position of the moon. Some of you clever ones might just figure that one out. But anyway, my goal here is to produce as much good, tasty and highly nutritional food as I will be able to on this small urban homestead, and to be able to successfully fulfill such an undertaking, I will have to start with fertilizing my soil. There’s just no other option. So, I did some searching on the internet, you know, as one does when in doubt, and my first discovery was the Biodynamic way of gardening, a way of soil treatment introduced in Europe around 1924 by Mr. Rudolf Steiner. However, not so long after my discovery of the Biodynamic practices, I stumbled upon the Korean Natural Farming practices, and both of them are really appealing to me, so once again, I am faced with a dilemma. Which one will I choose to put in practice on our small urban homestead? Well, to get a decisive answer on this, I will have to do some real hard and deep thinking. This is not a decision that one must take lightly. So, I’ll sleep on it and I invite you kindly to watch the next video to see what I’ve come up with and why. If you haven’t subscribed to our channel yet, please do so now, so you won’t miss out on which soil improvement practice I will choose to start using here on the Toxandria Homestead: Biodynamic gardening or Korean Natural Farming, KNF in short. Thank you for watching and see you soon.