Say Hello to Our Friends in the Soil

Learn how to let the soil life do more of the work for you. Billions of microbes live in our soil but we often make their job harder by disturbing their environment with chemicals and tilling, taking away their partnerships with plants. Soil microbes protect plants from diseases and pests, supply nutrients, and build soil structure.

The main characters living in the soil that include bacteria, protozoa, fungi, arthropods, nematodes, and earthworms. When gardeners can supply these organisms with the proper habitat of air, water, and nutrients they will create an entire infrastructure designed solely to keep plants as happy as possible. They will build an incredibly complex nutrient-cycling network. They do this because their own success depends on the success of the plants they support. They depend on food coming from living plants and on dead plants and animal tissue.

Produce grown in healthy soil is more flavorful and more nutrient dense. The complexity of the interactions between tens of thousands of different microbes with plants cannot be mimicked with human made inputs. For the healthiest food possible, supporting soil life is the best answer for our gardens