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https://www.facebook.com/AgrarianFoodWeb/?timeline_context_item_type=intro_card_work&timeline_context_item_source=100004076951852&fref=tag () https://www.facebook.com/AgrarianFoodWeb/?timeline_context_item_type=intro_card_work&timeline_context_item_source=100004076951852&fref=tag (Connect with Patti Amazing Arbrister on Facebook at her Agrarian Food Web Page!) I’ve been wanting to see some podcasts on you know the organic gardeners when we talk about soil health and composting and the principals of cover crops they just turn their lights off and don’t want ot talk because they are doing organic gardening and every single farmer including your household vegetable gardeners they’re doing production organics they’re on a fast pace to destroying their soils and don’t know it finally on fb yesterday, the day before one of my friends, she is a leader in organic gardening, she made a video on the same topic, when I started hearing about soil health she didn’t think they were talking about her, when she realized the principles are about her they have this mindset they are above and beyond soil health they are some of the ones the fastest What are they doing? To ruin their soil. These are the principles for regenerative farming or gardening 1.  Minimum disturbance to low disturbance boar bottom plow shovel chisel roto tillers use a broad fork a real shallow device That’s minimum disturbance 2. Keep the soil covered 24/7 365 other then the day you are going to pull the weed mulch soil should be covered so when you look at it you should either see dead organic matter  wood mulch/chips that you’ve added or you should  see live plants never see bare ground next rule or principal 3. Plant diversity more plant diversity Companion planting farming solar rays of sunlight that is coming to the earth as those plants do photosynthesis then they are dropping root exudates ~ they leak them out of their root system for the  soil food web Uses those sugar and carbohydrate Then they deliver to the plant something the plant needed. They do this with signals depending on the root exudates. Let’s say it’s a corn plant, it needs nitrogen. And next to it is a, tomato and a tomato needs calcium. sending different signals biology brings back different nitrogen is getting created by protozoa, then eating the fungi then pooing it out form of the bacteria fungi, attached to the roots The plant couldn’t use it until it went through the stomach of the protozoa and it poops it out. Kind of like a seed…. so it could sprout nutrients become available to the plant. The more plants and species of plants in that group the more sugars there is in the soil life and more diversity of the nutrients cycling around in the soil. too good a job too much calcium sending the signal tomato the corn peas beans need it and it’s available to them too. So it’s like a sharing event taking place. So the more diversity there is the healthier Next rule or principle is to  4. keep a living root in the soil as many days out of the year meaning if we’re gonna take out a crop just got done with the spring spinach or arugula bed is empty now, as soon  it is done I chop them down and they become part of the leaf litter the next succession of plant pepper into that spot For the biology of the soil, there is always a living root there, always giving off root exudates. This exchange is always going and can go year round if we have a perennial plants in the system! This is awesome! There is another thing that happens with the root structures A carrot is obviously a taproot, it has a singular taproot can break up hardpan radish can break up the hardpan. The hardpan is created by us walking on the ground driving an implement tractor in the farm gound train as it Support this podcast