The importance of testing the acidity of soil as pH, is virtually taken for granted today in farming and gardening circles. It’s a good time to take a refresher course on the topic, asking what is pH exactly and how does it apply as a management tool in biological farming?
Let’s take a look at the major types of vermi-systems that worm farmers are using to grow earthworms and produce vermicast. I’ll start with the simplest — a windrow — and then cover pits, bins and continuous flow-through bins. For more details on how to harvest vermicast from various systems, refer to The Worm Farmer’s Handbook.
We observed that by not disturbing last year’s crop residue and by planting directly into it, the fields became less prone to soil erosion.
A complex community of plants and a soil’s biodiversity are similar to the community of the gut microbiome.
Rancher Gene Goven promotes biodiversity at every level and aims to capture rainwater and to deepen roots.
The cation-exchange capacity measures the ability of the soil to exchange nutrients