Every time you till you destroy 30% of your soil organic matter

Organic matter is the lifeblood of healthy soil. Tilling the soil destroys the organic matter in a much bigger proportion than we like to think .

Good alternatives to tilling are:

- Adding manure - Good

- Raised bed- Better

-Hugelkultur - Best

I really enjoyed the video! Great visuals and voice over.

Soil health is an incredibly important topic to me and I find it almost a duty to improve and protect my soils. Permies has been a great place to learn a variety of techniques to do just that.

There are a few more possibilities. See Jane Mt Pleasant's work with NE Native American methods of hill culture.

The first one is locked unless you have an account, but it's worth reading if you can find an open access version. The second one has pretty much the same material, but is open access.

https://read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural-history/article-abstract/85/4/460/296779/The-Paradox-of-Plows-and-Productivity-An-Agronomic

and

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.2993/0278-0771-30.1.52

John P. Hart has also written some very interesting papers on the topic. This one is open access:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0230952