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I’ve been wanting to see some podcasts on you know the organic gardeners when we talk about soil health and composting and the principals of cover crops
they just turn their lights off and don’t want ot talk because they are doing organic gardening and
every single farmer
including your household vegetable gardeners
they’re doing production organics
they’re on a fast pace to destroying their soils and don’t know it
finally on fb yesterday, the day before
one of my friends, she is a leader in organic gardening, she made a video on the same topic,
when I started hearing about soil health she didn’t think they were talking about her, when she realized the principles are about her
they have this mindset
they are above and beyond soil health
they are some of the ones the fastest
What are they doing? To ruin their soil.
use a broad fork
a real shallow device
365 other then the day you are going to pull the weed mulch
soil should be covered
so when you look at it you should either see
dead organic matter
wood mulch/chips that you’ve added or you should
see live plants
never see bare ground
next rule or principal
more plant diversity
Companion planting
farming solar rays of sunlight that is coming to the earth
as those plants do photosynthesis then they are dropping root exudates ~ they leak them out of their root system for the
Uses those sugar and carbohydrate
Then they deliver to the plant something the plant needed. They do this with signals depending on the root exudates.
Let’s say it’s a corn plant, it needs nitrogen. And next to it is a, tomato and a tomato needs...
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