Minimize soil disturbance Maximize crop diversity Keep the soil covered Maintain living roots in the soil year round Integrate livestock. If you can figure out a way to do pull that off, the soil feeds itself! All you gotta do is add seeds, bud. It's all about the seeds. The big corps just want to sell you more and more expensive fertilizer.
@@jimmydykes7961 Awesome, I wish you well. I'd say that makes you smarter than the guys who get soil tests and make up formulas. At the end of the day, cover crops/ no till will fix just about any soil, right? Do a search on youtube for Gabe Brown. He's a no till farmer and has some good info that's easier to listen to.
@@rustyschackleford5800 I've done that,and hopefully in a few yrs.we'll have some of the best soil around.alabama has some really tough unforgiving soil
Add to @Rusty Schackleford. The diverse crop or cover crop should include 4+ families--for instance: cereals, grasses, brassicas, legumes, and chenopods (see Peter Caligari). That could be millet, maize, mustard, peas and swiss chard.
Man alive I’m lost in the nuanced complexities of variables that make a good soil equilibrium of microbiology and mycology and the likes. As I attempt to learn more for the sake a bottom-up approach of tiny private food forests, all clarity is lost in the details of how to guide all the unwanted fungi and nematodes and acidity and nitrogen types. Utterly overwhelming.
