Healthy farms and gardens start with healthy “living” soil.
Organic soil is created by the decomposition of plant and animal materials to create a nutrient and mineral rich ecosystem with microorganisms that feed and bring life back into the soil.
Simply put, living soil is how soil has existed in nature for millions of years.
Take a good look at the ground the next time you take a hike in the woods. Leaves and old trees fall, and wild fruits and vegetables grow and are eaten by animals that leave waste all around. All of this natural activity creates soil that is “living.”
What’s the best location for farming?
Choose a location that has never, or at least not in many years, had any use of chemicals or traditional pesticides. A small plot in your backyard may be ideal only if you haven’t used chemicals to make your lawn greener or to kill weeds.
BTW, most lawns are an ecological disaster!
Using and overusing synthetic chemicals creates toxic run-off, and that run-off has to go somewhere. Usually into our waterways, watersheds, and eventually the ocean. I’m sure by now you’ve seen or read about algae blooms that have killed off many millions of fish along our shorelines and made beaches unusable.