What's up everyone? Welcome back to the show. Putting a little song in there for you this

morning I guess. All right we're talking with Claire again about building

soil. Soil.

Remember, if you haven't been listening to the last couple of episodes,

I've been talking with Claire of the Urban Food Loop.

She runs that with her husband out in Little Rock, Arkansas.

It's a community composting business.

And she's got a lot to say about gardening food systems and composting

But in today's episode we're talking about building soil and how building soil is the correct way to think about it rather than fertilizing a plant or feeding a plant.

Because if you're growing in soil, where is that plant getting almost everything it needs, from sunlight to grow. It's getting it from the soil.

So it stands to reason that we should be feeding our soil and not feeding our plants.

Now, before we hop into the episode, we are sponsored by Garden Maker Naturals.

They are a natural organic fertilizer company that has a complete ingredient transparency.

And what I mean by that is you know exactly what's going in to your

fertilizer down to a percentage point basis if you so desire. If that is

something that is appealing to you especially as we go into spring check

them out at gardenmaker.com. You can go ahead and

order the epic soil starter mix which is the fertilizer blend that I have partnered with

them in creating designed to take a raised bed from just basic garden soil

into a productive garden in that very first season.

All right, let's get into it with Claire.

Yeah, absolutely.

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