Healthy soil biology is the foundation for everything you will grow above it.
Here’s how to build it.
observe • go slow • design • integrate • harvest • iterate • renew
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If your land looks like this…
Barren, eroded, devoid of visible life
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…and you want something like this
Rich, green, full of life
The 3 Critical Steps
Whether you’re hiring us or doing it yourself, this is the proven process.
1. Till
While you should almost never till healthy soil, hard dirt can use a friendly nudge to get going again.
Till organic matter (compost, leaves, kitchen scraps, soil amendments specific to your land) into the top 6-12 inches using a rototiller or broadfork.
2. Cover
Immediately cover the amended soil with several inches of wood mulch, grass clippings, leaves, etc. Order ahead of time from a service like ChipDrop.
This protects your soil from the sun & wind, conserves moisture and helps revive microbiology.
3. Plant
Finally, establish a diverse cover crop to kick-start the carbon cycle, stabilize nutrients, and provide next season’s mulch & amendments.
We choose a mixture of species like clover, buckwheat, cowpea, sunflower, annual flax, pearl millet, etc.
Follow this process now, and you’ll be fast-forwarding the process that nature takes years and decades to accomplish on her own. Within just one year, you’ll be growing more than you ever thought possible!