Garden Bed Prep and Soil

Here are resources related to preparing garden beds and cover cropping.

Video - Bed Prepping with Kids: covers checking for proper soil moisture, nod to adult bed prep, inefficiency by design, tips for digging with kids, amend with compost. At 6:43 video changes to furrow planting carrots with kids.

Soils and Bed Prepping with Kids from the Creating and Sustaining Your School Garden Training

--determining soil texture - Nitty Gritty lesson from Life Lab's Garden Classroom

Additional Resources - Going Deeper into Cultivation and Fertility

Soil Cultivation: Fundamental Concepts and Goals

https://casfs.ucsc.edu/documents/for-the-gardener/soil_cultivation.pdf

Your Soil - A Primer, with Some Strategies for Sustainable Management

https://casfs.ucsc.edu/documents/for-the-gardener/soil-primer.pdf

Choosing & Using Cover Crops in the Home Garden & Orchard

https://casfs.ucsc.edu/documents/for-the-gardener/choosing-cover-crops.pdf

If You Are Building New Beds or Buying Compost Here are Garden Bed Soil Calculators

https://www.gardeners.com/how-to/soil-calculator/7558.html

https://www.soilbuildingsystems.com/tools/cubicyardtoheight

https://www.soildirect.com/calculator/cubic-yard-calculator/

Life Lab's Garden Bed Design Guide (below) shares plans for the garden beds in the Garden Classroom Demo Garden Bed Site. This document isn't fully edited but it does share good information on building garden beds.