Today I figured I would give you all some updates on the homestead, some things that I've

learned since I've moved into this space and have been developing it.

First of all, let's talk about the native soil that was on the property, so I got a soil

test done and it turns out that I have pretty good soil actually, which makes sense because

the area I'm in used to be an orchard many, many, many years ago, like three generations

at least ago, so almost a hundred years.

So it would stand to a reason that, you know, there was some okay soil, right?

If it's going to be able to grow fruit trees, I was a little worried, maybe I had some

heavy metals in there, you know, something random that would take a little while to

remediate and get out of the soil, but turns out it's fine and actually quite high in

organic matter.

It's roughly at that three or four percent that you want your soil to have, which is great.

It is slightly low in iron, but now that I know that, I know to look for an iron deficiency

symptom in my leaves, specifically on my citrus hedge, which I just put in, that is a plant

that can be iron deficient just naturally, that can have that problem.

And so I can do a full yard spray with some, you know, liquid iron supplement and I'll

be fine.

So that was really helpful to get a soil test.

That being said, I also learned that doing a pure no dig, while it would work, it wouldn't

work on the time scales that I'm hoping for it to work on.

So what I've decided to do at my place is a one dig method where I go probably 18 inches

deep or so, break it up with a broad fork, incorporate a little bit of compost and go

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