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Soils are the basis of all terrestrial life. A teaspoon of healthy soil contains close to a billion bacteria, many yards of fungi, and thousands of protozoa and nematodes. Through decades of poor management techniques such as ongoing tillage, chemical inputs, and compaction, soil has become degraded the world over. This results in a massive…
Bob Wells and Jon Nilsson of CharGrow, LLC give us an overview of biochar production at the Grandview Living Web Farm and talk about adapting farm scale biochar to various sized operations and applications. Discover why biochar is such a great carrier for soil microbiology and find out about how that affects the long term…
One of the keys to Jean-Martin Fortier’s small farm, “Le Jardin de la Grelinette,” is sourcing high quality compost. In Part 5, he discusses implementing composting strategies that allow them to build natural soil structure while adding organic matter to each growing bed for maximum yield and highest quality produce.
What better way to improve your soil than the way that nature would do it. Cold Composting is a composting method for those who don’t wish to physically use much energy, unlike the hot composting method procedure which is necessary to turn the compost every few days, just place your materials into the compost bin…
