Today's tale is just a small picture of what we have been doing. Maureen found the Back to Eden method of soil building. We covered our garden and food beds with shredded trees and compost. The idea is that the soil will be protected and the worms and other critters will work their way through the soil to the decomposing plant material on the surface of the soil. They drag the plant material down through the soil and aerate and build the soil. No tilling is done and compost and more mulch is added each year. I'm not describing the process very well, but I hope you get the idea.
Yesterday Maureen started the process of planting a tree and in digging the hole for the tree had to dig in an area with the mulch and a nearby area with no mulch. The mulched area was softer and had more worms. The other area didn't. Score one for mulch.
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I think it's a great way to garden. I've seen lots of old abandoned orchards and nobody goes out to prune or clear the ground each year yet the fruit grows year after year and the trees live for a hundred years. I've just been cleaning out the barn and the chicken coop and putting all that "waste" directly onto the garden beds. It produces fantastic soil and I don't till ever.
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