The Organic Gardening Collection

In 2006, I started an organic gardening service, one of the few in my city at the time that was truly organic. This was my first chance to apply – to other people’s gardens instead of just my own –…

Inspecting your soil isn’t particularly complicated, but there are some things you need to know to do it right. Some of the simple tests we can do on our own, and the more difficult nutrient testing we should leave to…

“Such a strong symbiotic relationship exists between plans and soil that it could be argued that the plant exists to build soil rather than the soil being used to grow plants.” –Philip A. Wheeler and Ronald B. Ward. The Non-Toxic…

The “soil food web” refers to the inhabitants of the soil village. They are an army of tireless workers — 20,000 to 30,000 different species of organisms found in a teaspoon of healthy soil. The Soil Food Web inhabitants are…

Plants are brilliant. Their brilliance is so often underestimated or even ignored, but let’s take a closer look. All the energy in the earth’s living systems was collected from the sun by plants (plus algae and cyanobacteria). They photosynthesize: They…