Articles: soil health

worms in soil

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 health, which benefits the environment and all…

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vermicast bin

Vermicast Structures: Worm Real Estate

Farmers rely on earthworms to create vermicomposting systems to improve seed germination, enhanced seedling growth and increased plant productivity.

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cows grazing

All About Cows: What has Four Legs, Says “Moo,” and Could Save the Planet?

Cows can help rebuild soil and restore land to its rightful state—improving carbon sequestration, natural water cycles, and soil fertility and nutrient density.

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Cows from Barefoot Biodynamics

Biodynamic Farming: Unlock Fertile Fields with Cows & Compost

“An immediate halt to chemical fertilizing and returning to the use of compost instead would turn degeneration into regeneration.”

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BioChar on the Farm

Land Degradation: The Secrets of Fixing the Soil with Biochar

Some of the world’s most productive and resilient soils contain significant quantities of “natural” biochar.  Author Kelpie Wilson challenges us to “change our perspective from ‘too much…

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highland cattle

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 rooted in local food and community. As…

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compost

Food for Your Garden: Starting a Traditional Compost Pile in Your Yard

What can we do to reduce our waste? Use less, recycle and reuse packaging materials, and compost your organic waste. And if you’re a gardener, there’s no…

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local rocks & soil

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 your garden to improve soil health and…

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cover cropping

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 for winter gardening AND provides an extra…

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soil health

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 Commonplace Humans, animals, and plants all rely…

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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 the use of woodchips in mulch, and…

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farm land

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, his wife, and oldest daughter currently operate…

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soil

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 themselves. As the average age of America’s…

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