No-Fertilizer Soil Health

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0	Soil health is a topic we talk about a lot on the podcast and it's because it's an
0:16.8	important one and there's actually a lot to know about it and frankly I think if you focus
0:22.2	on just this a lot of your life gets easier in the garden or the homestead.
0:26.8	So we've got Angela Farraro fanning back on the show, Cornell University certified permaculturist and homesteader in Central New Jersey.
0:35.9	Let's talk about soil and let's try not to create a two hour episode because I think we easily could.
0:41.9	Yeah we could. We could.
0:43.0	How do you how do you approach it today?
0:47.0	Okay, it's a multifaceted system, right?
0:52.0	So we've got all different pieces coming together to
0:56.2	create healthier soil. So the first thing that I do is I add compost every
1:00.9	year. If you listened in a previous episode,
1:03.1	you heard that I have quite the number of livestock.
1:05.7	And so we have a great source of compost
1:09.1	right here on the homestead.
1:10.5	I hot compost so it goes faster.
1:12.8	When we add compost to our growing spaces,
1:15.5	this acts as an amazing soil conditioner
1:18.4	and a source of organic matter.
1:21.2	There's a really big myth that it's fertilizer. Here's the thing about
1:24.7	compost. It has to break down and create water-soluble nutrients for plants to
1:31.2	take it up. Plants don't eat solids.
1:34.0	They drink liquids.
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