What's going on everyone?

What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening

podcast. We have a really cool week coming up because Paul, the owner of Aleaky Gardens, which is a local San Diego

Soil Company with a focus on creating really high-quality soils to support a

more regenerative or no-till agricultural or gardening approach. Paul's on the podcast, which first of all it's really

cool to feature and support a local San Diego company and you know it's just something that as I evolved in my gardening along with all of

you listening I like to get deeper and deeper into these topics but you know I'm not a

soil scientist and so it makes a lot of sense to bring someone on who has that deep knowledge.

So first of all Paul, thanks for coming on the show.

So I thought we could kick it off with talking about some pretty interesting results that I achieved growing cabbages with one of the types of soil that that you guys produce at Eliki which is your Freya's mix.

Now first of all I thought it might be a good idea just to to talk a little bit

about what the Freya mix is in the first place and then we can talk about kind of what

happened with my cabbages. Sure yeah sounds great. Okay so Freyaas Mix is a blend of soil that we make specifically for raised bed gardens, no-till growers.

What we do is we start out with a compost base and we make compost in Escondito at

San Pasquale Valley soils. I'd like to talk to a little more about the compost and

what makes that special. So the compost what we do is we combine several

feedstocks together and what makes this a bit different than you know your your

normal municipal compost is that we use a diversity of materials.

So we use a diversity of woody materials, so trees, shr shrubs and rye grass to provide most of the carbon we use

alfalfa which is a dried green legume or a nitrogen source. We use organic fruits and vegetable pulp that comes from

suja juice. I don't know if you've had that fresh. Oh yeah, yeah yeah I have that's pretty cool.

Oh yeah we take in their their fruit vegetable pulp and then we use

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