soil-building
24 videos tagged soil-building across 3 categories.
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Make Free Compost Right in Your Garden Beds (No Compost Pile Needed)
Seventeen-minute walkthrough of the chop-and-drop composting method: building soil health and nutrient recycling directly in garden beds without hauling or external compost.
Micro Clover for Yard and Soil Health: Why I Choose It Over Lawn
Fifteen-minute walkthrough of micro clover as a soil-building alternative to traditional lawn grass in an off-grid mountain homestead setting.
Growing All Our Own Food: Garden Foundation Systems
26-minute walkthrough of permaculture-on-contour, compost rebuilds, biochar production, orchard guilds, and hugelkultur variants for maximizing food production in dry climates.
Hand Scythe for Garden Maintenance: Chop-and-Drop Mulching
34-second walkthrough of using a hand scythe ($10 tool) for efficient seasonal garden maintenance, chop-and-drop mulching in beds, and soil management without mechanization.
Managing a Large Garden Efficiently: BCS Tractor and Flail Mower Setup
Walk-through of using a BCS garden tractor with flail mower attachment to manage larger garden plots, reduce labor, and maintain soil health through mechanical mulching.
Mulching Over Drip Irrigation: Reduce Water Loss and Build Soil
Step-by-step walkthrough on layering mulch over drip lines to cut evaporation, maintain soil moisture, and use chop-and-drop composting to feed the garden.
How to Build a Garden Bed in 5 Minutes: No-Dig Composting Method
28-minute walkthrough of the no-dig gardening method using cardboard and straw to suppress weeds and build soil for food production without digging.
Turn Garden Overgrowth Into Fertilizer: Chop and Drop Technique
Five-minute walkthrough of the chop-and-drop method to clear overgrown gardens while building soil fertility, featuring hand scythe technique and regenerative agriculture principles.
Can I Turn This Bare High Desert Land Into Pasture?
Nine-month land transformation: building soil health and establishing pasture on arid land through native vegetation, strategic plantings of grasses and forage, and minimal-water techniques.
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.
Soil Building and Land Regeneration: From Bare Dirt to Productive Pasture
Eleven-minute walkthrough of soil improvement in an Arizona high-desert homestead using composted manure, native grasses, and water retention—practical steps toward productive land over years.
Biomass for the Front Garden Expansion
Two-minute walkthrough of adding wood chips and organic biomass to expand and improve garden soil productivity on the homestead.
Why I Stopped Planting and Started Building Soil
Regenerative farming approach prioritizing soil health and livestock integration over immediate planting—designing self-sustaining food systems from the ground up.
Why Farmers Use Goats to Close Out Summer
How rotational grazing with portable fencing clears vegetation while building soil fertility—a practical technique for homestead food production.
Composting Is The Secret Ingredient
How to build garden soil fertility through composting, kitchen scraps, livestock rotation, and chop-and-drop methods integrated into daily homestead routines.
The Secrets of Good Soil, Myth 1
Why you don't need perfect soil to start gardening—how composting kitchen scraps, mulching, and returning organic matter build productive soil over time.
Growing New Soil & Mushrooms
Sixteen minutes on pathway composting, worm castings, mushroom cultivation, and potato harvesting on a homestead garden.
Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway: Review
Review of Hemenway's permaculture guide for small-space gardeners: building soil, water conservation, biodiversity, and low-effort food production.
Why Do Permaculture Gardens Grow So Much Food? Tour and Harvest
44-minute garden tour and harvest walkthrough demonstrating polyculture planting, symbiotic plant relationships, soil building, and food production yields in a BC zone-5 homestead.
How Doing LESS Transformed My Food Garden & Saved My Sanity
Twelve-minute walkthrough of five core gardening fundamentals—water, soil, sunlight, timing, pest management—and how simplifying your approach builds sustainable food production.
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.
Lazy Composting Yields Black Gold!
Composting walkthrough using the Salatin method: woodchips, manured bedding, and food scraps to build soil fertility.
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.
Compost Health Check 101: Effective composting as a waste management solution
Interview on composting best practices: diagnosing unhealthy piles, fixing odor and decomposition issues, monitoring temperature and moisture for successful food-waste recycling.