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Healthy soil grows healthy plants
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List of Bryant RedHawk's Epic Soil Series Threads

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women peeing outdoors

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Restoring soil structure and simple farming in a wet climate

142 replies 1 278 81

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composting wood chips with chicken litter and fungi

255 replies 1 89 84

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All the Great Things about Wood Chips

222 replies 3 23 105

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Most everything you need to know about Used Coffee Grounds

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getting the biology we want into our soil

82 replies 1 80

What we need to know about Soil

109 replies 2 3 29

the quest for super soil

130 replies 1 26 34

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To Till, or Not to Till, and WHY

83 replies 2 10 50

Improving clay soil on the cheap

160 replies 4 40

The urban myth about woodchips and nitrogen

57 replies 3 19

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Incredible, Amazing....Leaf Mold

116 replies 3 4 34

What the heck is Humus?

93 replies 1 37

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The Big Fat Thread of Dryland Farming Ideas!

77 replies 3 9 28

Do weeds rob soil of nutrients?

77 replies 2 46

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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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Bacteria, Fungi and Nematodes Oh My!

63 replies 14 13

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repairing soil - my post barley experiment

28 replies 3 8

Can Tilling be Sustainable?

41 replies 2 34

my personal quest for super soil

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please share ideas for growing BIG sweet potatoes, several pounds per plant

32 replies 1 38 28

raining non-stop

22 replies 5 13

What is potash?

12 replies 1 17

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Ways to combat higher fertilizer prices and sustaining ourselves in the long run.

18 replies 1 1 14

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Chicken Manure and Litter

16 replies 5 7 13

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Which size mesh for sifting stones out of rocky soil dug 2 feet deep for biointensive garden

14 replies 1 4 1

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Soil CEC (Cation Exchange Capacity)

17 replies 2 3 16

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A stupid fear getting in my way

14 replies 1 7

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Deep litter method

14 replies 7 13

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How to amend so I have artisanal, hand crafted soil for future orchard

13 replies 3 8

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Poor Soil Plants - What can you get to grow?

21 replies 1 3

how to get enough fertile soil in your garden

12 replies 4

What made the biggest difference in your soil over the long run?

28 replies 5

Peeing in the Garden

9 replies 2

Amendment of Soil

10 replies 2 2

Will it improve my soil?

6 replies

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wood chips: optimum depth over bare soil? over grasses?

10 replies 1 1

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Do you use cover crops or mulch in a cold climate?

6 replies 9

Weed Soup or Compost Tea, which is actually better for the soil? And Mushrooms in steamed weeds?

14 replies 3 1

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Free Fertilizer from Wildlife

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composting

Ways to combat higher fertilizer prices and sustaining ourselves in the long run.

7 hours ago 18 replies 1 1 14

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To Till, or Not to Till, and WHY

2 days ago 83 replies [ 1, 2, 3 ] 2 10 50

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Growing Garlic: Using spent kitty litter pine sawdust and coffee grounds as amendment

3 days ago 12 replies 4 7

root crops

please share ideas for growing BIG sweet potatoes, several pounds per plant

1 week ago 32 replies 1 38 28

Seed raising mix without buying products

1 week ago 13 replies 2

raining non-stop

1 week ago 22 replies 5 13

Improving clay soils - leaf mulch or green mulch (cover crops)?

1 week ago 3 replies 3

Serious Question: Will adding worm castings repel worms?

2 weeks ago 3 replies 1

Permie alternative to NPK / Standard Fertilizer Mix

2 weeks ago 13 replies 6

Soil Compaction

2 weeks ago 7 replies 3 1

zero waste

What to do with all those eggshells???

2 weeks ago 26 replies 4 3

From wood Chips to Potting Soil

2 weeks ago 4 replies 4 3

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Interesting quick fixes that work

2 weeks ago 23 replies 13

how to get enough fertile soil in your garden

2 weeks ago 12 replies 4

Life!!!

3 weeks ago 1 reply 1 1

pigs

Pigs and No till

3 weeks ago 14 replies 4 4

Creating Soil

1 month ago 9 replies 1 2

composting

questions about collecting seagrass and seaweed for soil building

1 month ago 19 replies 2 3

fruit trees

The Ellen White Method of tree planting

1 month ago 35 replies 2 2 16

River silt as topsoil

1 month ago 7 replies 2

wetlands

dealing with annual flooding

1 month ago 9 replies 1

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Soil horizons & sunken garden beds

1 month ago 10 replies 12 4

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Worm Castings?

1 month ago 5 replies 4

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Here is a way everyone can store water

2 months ago 20 replies 4 8

No Till after establishing swales

2 months ago 2 replies 4 5

permaculture artisans

Elaine Ingham has passed

2 months ago 2 replies 1

projects

Restoring soil structure and simple farming in a wet climate

2 months ago 142 replies [ 1, 2, 3 < ... <10, 11, 12 ] 1 278 81

How Best to Remediate Soil?

2 months ago 3 replies 4 2

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Let's talk about soil minerals

2 months ago 59 replies [ 1, 2 ] 1 8

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List of Dr. RedHawk's Epic Soil Series Threads

2 months ago 1 25

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How to improve clay soils and still be growing the first year

2 months ago 49 replies [ 1, 2 ] 1 20

Low Dollar Long Lasting Homemade growing medium / potting soil

2 months ago 6 replies 1

Can you introduce mycorrhizal fungi via compost tea?

2 months ago 28 replies 2

getting the biology we want into our soil

2 months ago 82 replies [ 1, 2, 3 ] 1 80

homestead

women peeing outdoors

2 months ago 449 replies [ 1, 2, 3 < ... <10, 11, 12 ] 6 18 20

Can radon get into veggies or fruit?

2 months ago 7 replies 3

building soil year after year

3 months ago 45 replies [ 1, 2 ] 1

What made the biggest difference in your soil over the long run?

4 months ago 28 replies 5

Will it improve my soil?

4 months ago 6 replies

where do you get your soil tested?

4 months ago 8 replies 1 2

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wood chips: optimum depth over bare soil? over grasses?

4 months ago 10 replies 1 1

Help with gardening in Dubai desert

2 years ago 15 replies

local source for elemental sulfur? (Pennsylvania, USA)

4 years ago 10 replies 1

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Pine needles - do they make the soil acidic or not?!

10 years ago 4 replies
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