cover-crops
11 videos tagged cover-crops across 2 categories.
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Your Soil Needs to Breathe | Soil Health Series Part 4
Learn why soil aeration is essential for garden health and practical methods to improve aeration through compost, cover crops, and mulch.
The Secret to Healthier Soil? | Soil Health Part 3
Build soil organic matter through compost, mulch, cover crops, and reduced tillage to improve water retention and soil structure.
Winning the War on Weeds with John Moody
Hour-long deep dive into organic weed management strategies, soil health, cover cropping, and garden planning from a homesteading expert.
Late Summer Tasks in the Garden
Prioritize harvesting and adjust watering as summer wanes; plan fall crops and cover crops to reduce next year's work.
Blue Grama Wins: Six Years of High Desert Cover Crop Experiments
Six-year field trial comparing grasses and cover crops on a high desert homestead; why blue grama outperformed sorghum, wheat, alfalfa, and others with minimal inputs.
Your Soil Needs More Than NPK | Soil Health Part 2
Learn how to build complete soil fertility by balancing macronutrients, micronutrients, and biology for nutrient-dense food production.
Why Bare Soil Is a Bad Idea
How to build living soil using mulch, cover crops, and no-till methods instead of destructive tilling — critical foundation for growing reliable food.
The Cover Crop That Feeds Your Garden
59-second walkthrough of hairy vetch: how to identify it, why it fixes nitrogen, and the chop-and-drop method for natural soil fertilization.
The Fantastic Root Vegetable: Radish
Forty-one seconds on using daikon radish as a cover crop to improve soil quality, aerate compacted earth, and build organic matter without heavy tilling.
Spring No-Till Garden: Easy Prep & Planting Potatoes
Five-minute walkthrough of no-till garden preparation and potato planting, comparing soil-building methods and demonstrating the creator's preferred cover-crop approach.
Building Soil to Regenerate an Old Pasture with Hay
Seven-minute walkthrough of a multi-year soil regeneration project: using hay and cover crops to restore degraded pasture for livestock integration and food production.