Improving Growing Methods

This picture shows organic matter can create very healthy soil

We must fix the soil to fix the growing, not just treat the symptoms

Feeding your soil organic matter has many valuable benefits 

Exposed soil becomes unhealthy poor performing soil

Spraying root areas kills important soil life, its much better to mulch

Healthy growing = This whole area should be covered in organic matter

Soil Organic Matter builds quality valuable soil in many ways

1% increase in SOM over 1 hectare is worth over 100,000 pesos in nutrients and 60,000 litres in soil moisture storage capacity plus it feeds important soil life so it can perform many beneficial tasks.

Not adding organic matter to surface led to this eggplant crop to fail

Vital organic matter is lost through digging 

Direct drilled fields into flattened cover crops rejuvenates soil health

Tilling a field looses soil to wind & soil life/organic matter to oxidation

Its very damaging and unnatural to leave soils exposed to weather

Hand weeding becomes easy with softer soil with GROWERS GOLD

Hand weeding before unwanted weeds take to seed

Pest traps attract  pests and trap them

Create habit that naturally host predictors of pests

Orius feeding on aphids which attack plants

Lady bug eating aphids

Cover crop diversity restores ecological memory and soil health

Improvement of crop yield through Gliricidia green leaf manuring 

Corn and legume for nitrogen

3 Sisters Inter-crop:  Corn, Beans grows up corn also provide nitrogen and Squash (Pumpkin) to keep down weeds by covering the ground

Cover crop combination of crimson, rye, vetch

Inter-planting carrots and radishes to maximise space and timing.

Planted through a rolled cover crop , no weeds, plenty of organic matter

Finger millet & sugarcane, a bio-dynamic farm, India

Burning destroys crop litter layer and diminishes soil organic matter

Burning of rice straw is lost organic matter, best to return it to  your soil