Components of Healthy Soil

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Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Soil is not one thing, it’s the sum of many parts, and in an ideal world that whole is greater than the sum. Here are Greg’s 5 components for healthy soil.

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Farmer Greg is the founder of Urban Farm U and the Urban Farm Podcast, and has been a permaculturist and urban homesteaders for decades. His wealth of experience shows in his incredible courses and you’re going to absolutely love this week with him on the podcast.

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0:16.0	What's going on everyone Kevin from Epic Gardening here? We are back with another awesome week of episodes. We have Farmer Greg from the Urban Farm and the Urban Farm podcast of which there are there's much more that farmer Greg is up to but he's most well known at least in my world for the Urban Farm Podcast which I was
0:19.5	recently on. So we're having him on the podcast this week it's going to be really awesome covering some really
0:25.4	interesting topics and before we get into the meat of today's episode
0:30.3	Farmer Greg first of all thanks for coming on.
0:33.0	Second of all, I think it would be great if we just had a quick hit of where you came from,
0:39.6	how you got into this world, and sort of where you are in this world today.
0:45.0	Oh my gosh, how many hours do we have?
0:47.0	Days.
0:48.0	Thanks for having me.
0:50.0	First of all, I appreciate it.
0:52.0	Really my story starts back in 1975 when I wrote a paper on how
0:56.3	we were overfishing the oceans for my eighth grade my eighth grade biology class. I still have that paper somewhere. It's written in pencil and lined paper and so I knew back in you know what when I was 13 14 years old that there was something wrong with the way we were living on the planet and eating on the planet.
1:16.0	And then the one year, so 1981, I designed my first sustainable fish farm, That's what I was really interested in was
1:25.7	fish farming, which I know it's kind of funny, I live in the desert, but that's just the way it was
1:32.1	for me. And so I did a lot of research and a lot of
1:34.5	digging in and actually raised fish in my front in my backyard and inside the
1:38.6	house here and then in 91 I discovered permaculture I like to call permaculture the art and science of working with nature and you know how do we work with the flow and then in 2001 while I was taking my undergraduate work, I went back to college late in life when I was doing my undergraduate work.
1:59.0	I had to write a mission and vision for my life.
2:03.4	And out of that mission and vision came two things.
2:07.2	First of all, the vision is that I am the person on the planet responsible for transforming
2:12.0	our global food system.
2:14.0	And on a more local level, the urban farm formed.
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