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Healthy soil grows healthy plants
Using permaculture to transform dirt into soil

List of Bryant RedHawk's Epic Soil Series Threads

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women peeing outdoors

444 replies 6 18 19

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composting wood chips with chicken litter and fungi

250 replies 1 86 83

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Restoring soil structure and simple farming in a wet climate

115 replies 223 72

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All the Great Things about Wood Chips

221 replies 3 23 103

What we need to know about Soil

109 replies 2 3 29

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Most everything you need to know about Used Coffee Grounds

78 replies 2 2 45

the quest for super soil

130 replies 1 26 34

What the heck is Humus?

93 replies 1 36

Improving clay soil on the cheap

159 replies 4 40

The urban myth about woodchips and nitrogen

55 replies 3 17

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A story of microbes, how they can accomplish seeming miracles and how to culture or buy them

147 replies 4 5 20

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To Till, or Not to Till, and WHY

80 replies 2 10 46

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Incredible, Amazing....Leaf Mold

114 replies 3 4 30

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Bacteria, Fungi and Nematodes Oh My!

63 replies 14 10

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repairing soil - my post barley experiment

28 replies 3 8

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The Big Fat Thread of Dryland Farming Ideas!

72 replies 3 9 28

getting the biology we want into our soil

77 replies 1 2 26

Do weeds rob soil of nutrients?

72 replies 2 43

my personal quest for super soil

46 replies 41 14

Can Tilling be Sustainable?

41 replies 2 34

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Best this year

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Ill after shoveling lots of wood chips

13 replies 3

mud dumped in garden beds

12 replies 1 4

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Finding sea weed for your gardening needs

13 replies 1 1

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Unlimited Sawdust

7 replies 1 3

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Freshwater algae as a garden nutrient

10 replies 5

Rain garden for driveway runoff- excavated soil for garden?

16 replies 1

Soil Stabilization in “No Man’s Land” high winds

11 replies 1 2 1

If a Flood Brought Sand to Your Field Could you Still Grow on it?

5 replies 1 2

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Heavy Clay Soil Amelioration

15 replies 9 1

Permies Poll: What kind of soil do you have at your homestead?

9 replies 5 4

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solarization of comfrey

15 replies 1 1

Brush pile for garden bed creation

3 replies 3 4

High chromium soil

14 replies 5

Next year’s garden

8 replies 2

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Potting soil involving biochar

13 replies 8 5

Permie alternative to NPK / Standard Fertilizer Mix

6 replies 1

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How many people intentionally include microbe inoculation when they plant?

8 replies 3

Here is what's so bad about adding Nitrogen

7 replies 1 1

Using Onions for Sulfur to Increase Acidity in Soil?

8 replies 1

Tiller reccomendations

12 replies 2

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Is this a good plan for my super-clay soil...?

17 hours ago 9 replies 1 6

homestead

women peeing outdoors

1 day ago 444 replies [ 1, 2, 3 < ... <10, 11, 12 ] 6 18 19

wheaton laboratories

Permaculture smackdown Week 4: The solution for nearly every soil test - postponed to Jan 25th, 2025

1 day ago 4 6

Why does ash alkalinize the soil, when wood chips do not?

6 days ago 3 replies

nibblers

voles and mulch and cover crops

1 week ago 5 replies 1

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Finding sea weed for your gardening needs

1 week ago 13 replies 1 1

Permie alternative to NPK / Standard Fertilizer Mix

2 weeks ago 6 replies 1

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Official Geophagia and Dust Bathing Thread

2 weeks ago 3 replies 1 2

How to start an Organic Fertilizer operation?

3 weeks ago 12 replies 1

biochar

Potting soil involving biochar

3 weeks ago 13 replies 8 5

Barn Lime

1 month ago 2 1

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soil building with daikon radish

1 month ago 73 replies [ 1, 2 ] 2 12 5

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Lead contaminated soil and wildlife

1 month ago 16 replies

If a Flood Brought Sand to Your Field Could you Still Grow on it?

1 month ago 5 replies 1 2

soil

Managing for Soil Health when raising potatoes

1 month ago 3 replies 1 1

gardening for beginners

Heavy Clay Soil Amelioration

1 month ago 15 replies 9 1

Why do we age compost?

1 month ago 3 replies 2 4

Peat moss alternative

1 month ago 6 replies

Fertilizing with human urine -- medication concerns?

1 month ago 18 replies 1 1

projects

Starting Food Forest but... no soil, crazy winds, and little rain

2 months ago 35 replies 3 9 20

Squash pits in heavy clay?

2 months ago 6 replies

Can Tilling be Sustainable?

2 months ago 41 replies [ 1, 2 ] 2 34

Alfalfa Pellets and Shredded Beet Pulp

2 months ago 1 reply

soil

Soil Erosion: looking to solve one problem with another problem

2 months ago 13 replies 7 5

gardening for beginners

How to increase Soil Depth?

2 months ago 20 replies 2 10

Effect of adding nitrogen fertilizer: water accumulation

2 months ago 4 replies 2 1

Overcoming clubroot with soil health?

2 months ago 2 replies 1

Do weeds rob soil of nutrients?

2 months ago 72 replies [ 1, 2 ] 2 43

Soil Stabilization in “No Man’s Land” high winds

3 months ago 11 replies 1 2 1

projects

Restoring soil structure and simple farming in a wet climate

3 months ago 115 replies [ 1, 2, 3 < ... <8, 9, 10 ] 223 72

Solar steamed soil shows much faster growth in the first month after transplanting lettuce.

3 months ago 0 replies 1

mud dumped in garden beds

3 months ago 12 replies 1 4

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Most everything you need to know about Used Coffee Grounds

4 months ago 78 replies [ 1, 2 ] 2 2 45

organic

Incredible, Amazing....Leaf Mold

4 months ago 114 replies [ 1, 2, 3 ] 3 4 30

soil

Zeolite

4 months ago 1 3

projects

repairing soil - my post barley experiment

4 months ago 28 replies 3 8

Growing in 100% composted cow manure with mixed results

4 months ago 6 replies 1 1

organic

Himalayan salt to improve soil?

4 months ago 26 replies

Brush pile for garden bed creation

4 months ago 3 replies 3 4

fruit trees

Citrus & Blueberry Orchards: what to plant /put around the sandy soil?

4 months ago 1 reply 1

soil

Unlimited Sawdust

4 months ago 7 replies 1 3

Is your Soil Healthy? Just listen to it ...

4 months ago 1 reply 1 1

Random observation thread—1 ants making a dry landscape in woodchip pile

5 months ago 3 replies

Next year’s garden

5 months ago 8 replies 2

cascadia

Clay Soil Ammendment - Oregon Coast Range Food Garden Journal

5 months ago 14 replies 30 7
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