Whether you’re looking to make your own soil, reamend used soil, use amendments in the garden, or start composting, these guides are here to help you learn more and start your new project in no time.
Guide to Organic Soil Enrichment and Reamendment
Whether you are gardening indoors (perhaps in an urban apartment), in containers, outside in raised beds or directly in your own backyard or farmland, you have likely wondered about the…
How To Make a Seed Starting Soil Mix
For those looking to start their seeds, you may find a lot of different information about the proper soil to start seeds in. Of course, we’ve all seen the over-priced…
How To Make a Gardening Soil Mix
When it comes to building soil for your garden, you may be wondering where to start, if the soil in your backyard will suffice, or if you can simply amend…
Crustacean Meal
Tiny pulverized sea creatures might not be the first thing that you think of when you picture high-quality soil amendments for your garden, but the truth is that organic fertilizers…
Alfalfa Meal
Who doesn’t want to grow plants that serve two purposes? As it turns out, there are some plants you can grow that are as beneficial for your horses as they…
Oyster Shell
There might be many more uses for your kitchen scraps than you realize. Specifically, the empty oyster shells from your last seafood feast have some surprising benefits for your lawn…
Volcanic Rock Dust
When it comes to organic gardening, the health of your plants is only half the story. Equally important is the quality of soil that you grow them in. Successful organic…
Earthworm Castings
Some of the best fertilizer in the entire world is so simple to make. In fact, it’s likely being created under your feet right this minute such as earthworm castings.…
Glacial Rock Dust
You probably know how important it is to keep your lawn garden healthy, through the use of local resources like compost. But, have you given any thought to the historical…
Insect Frass
How much thought have you given insect poop? If you’re like most people, not much. Yet contrary to what many people think, insects DO poop, and their droppings go by the…
Neem/Karanja
No need to start salivating, neem cake won’t be on the dinner table anytime soon. Though you might be disappointed to learn that neem and Karanja cake aren’t actually tasty…
Start A Composting Bin
Everyone wants to live lighter on the planet, but some earth-friendly options are harder to implement than others. Thankfully, there are some simple ways that you can lower your impact…
Composting With Bokashi
Making compost right at home is an easy way to get rid of kitchen scraps. Plus, it adds fertility to your garden and keeps our landfills from piling up too…
Vermicomposting
Is your kitchen trash smelling stinky? Do you have an overflowing pile of papers in your recycling that never seem to disappear? As it turns out, food scraps and scrap…
Coots Soil Mix
The following recipe is not ours, but it is what we have found to work best for most plants. All credit for this recipe goes to Clackamas Coots. First and…
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