3 Free Ways to Make Your Own Soil for Growing Organic Food - Regenerative Gardening & Permaculture

Good video! I love to see people using wood chips; I have used them for mulch, a bottom layer in a raised bed, and for compost. I would add a few tips, though. Mixing the wood chips with nitrogen-rich material is a great start for compost, but it will work faster if you turn the pile, and cover it to keep the moisture in. You can certainly just leave the pile alone, but it will take much longer to compost. Similarly, shredding leaves helps quite a bit. Without it, the leaves can tend to flatten into mats, and it slows the decomposition. Finally, if you are getting horse manure (or any other manure), it's essential to find out if the horses have been fed hay that was sprayed to kill broadleaf "weeds." Some of those herbicides persist in the hay, in the manure of animals fed that hay, and in the compost made from that manure. Compost containing those herbicides will kill the plants in your garden, and will persist in the soil, sometimes for years. If the people don't know how their hay was grown, don't use it.

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I have gotten 3 or 4 CHIPDROPS. They always call me and ask for a pic for where I want them. Never had a problem

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Thts wht I always based the thought of compost on...The Forrest through the trees 🌳....The Forrest through the trees...great vid...I learned something....1 PEOPLE...1 MIND....1 LOVE ❤️....1 NATION...1

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Bags of shredded pine bark mulch is an easy way to compost wood chips, I use it on newly planted areas because it breaks down quickly. I chipped up all the brush on our property and sprinkle the hardwood into green material and it helps the compost COOK even if its just grass clippings or corn stalks.. There is no MIRACLE ingredient to having a great garden, the Soil Food Web is the answer.

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I really like your idea

I like using sheep chit. Feed your animals afaifa hay. blend all that in worm castings and bubble everything. I just dig soil nerds good job

Great video thanks for sharing!

If you put meat scraps into your compost. It will bring unwanted pests. Meets grabs do not break down fast enough for it not to attract these unwanted pests. Just throw them away throw in everything else the lady said but don't put in the meat scraps and meat bones. You'll have things that you don't want around your house. I truly dig this video I subscribed to your channel. Good job

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I got 2 BIG drops from Chip drop same dary and used the entire thing in one day. 😆

cool simple approach i like it

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No dig, no till is natural, i.e., what nature does! Emulate it! For example, in the fall, most people throw away their most valuable plant nutrients, e.g., fallen tree leaves/wood chips. Leaves break down best shredded, but that is often done by others who then put them on the curb. Retrieve and spread them, minimum 4" up to 2' deep, keep moist, open to the air, everywhere you want to increase soil fertility. Do it now, before people wise up and recycle them. Don't waste a season! This beats composting because it is much, much easier, more effective, therefore a better use of time.
If you have no such resource, plant a winter cover crop, but NEVER let the ground go unprotected by growth.
For a truly radical growing plan, use every inch of ground to produce food, one way or another. A lawn is a waste of space.
Be frugal, be wise, be independent in every way, but most of all, in your own beliefs, despite what the majority believe. It's self-help, self-defense. You can be a mentor, a beacon of reason in a world of darkness.

Gardening will provide you new knowledge, healthy food, you will help your economic development, avoid markets and suspicious quality food, you will be smarter as you will have time to think and not to watch TV or social networks that make you brainwashed. You will also create or maintain hot body and substitute gym with fresh air.
Yes. You can see all of this in video. Now you can just start living with nature and take care about you and your family.

Good video! Good example of a lady working in the garden. In Buenos Aires it is almost impossible for me to dismantle the idea that men must be the ones who work in the garden...it is thought that it is something of muscular people...for me it is very interesting and gratifying except for the prejudices that surround me. Greetings!

We use about 6 inches of wood chips between the beds where we bury kitchen scraps as the season progresses. At the end of the growing season, I screen the wood chip walkways adding the mulch to the beds and the material that is screened out to the compost pile. Refill the walkways and repeat.

Wood(chips) give nothing to the ground, except maybe when they are rotting, keepingkeeping the ground structure lose.

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I've watched this video twice now, and it's inspired me greatly to take over soil production on our suburban land. We're in Brisbane, Australia, which is about the same distance from the equator as Orlando, Florida...so hopefully whatever works for you will work for us as well! We let our garden get away from us over the past few years and now we're taking great joy in getting it back into a proper working order, including a lot of tree/shrub trimming and then shredding everything we can that we've cut down. I'd already appointed myself the Compost King of our place (my wife handles the finer stuff, and I do the brute force stuff!), but now I'm gonna be the Soil Baron as well!

היי אני וחבריי מישראל מגדלים בגינות שלנו ירקות ואנחנו אוהבים לצפות בערוץ שלך וללמוד ממך המון על הקומפוסט ובריאות האדמה בגינה.
אך לא כולנו מבינים אנגלית נשמח מאוד אם תוכלי להוסיף תרגום בעברית.
בתודה מראש הגננים מישראל 😊😊❤מ

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I love chipdrop. Done it twice now. Yeah, its a lot of work but it saved me hundreds of dollars on buying mulch.

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Well done Mam

your job is great ❤

So if you don't have manure you can not do anything you say, RIght?

Too many words. You don't have to say something three times.

Glad I found your channel! I am new to gardening but really do not have the budget to keep buying big box store soils. I found a couple of arborists who are willing to bring me chips and I have got a ton of leaves come fall. I look forward to seeing your videos!

היי

אני ועוד חברים שלי עוקבים אחרי הערוץ שלך. הבעיה היא שלא כולם מבינים אנגלית נשמח מאוד או תוסיפי תרגום בעברית ככה שכל הצופים מישראל יוכלו להבין 😊😊

It amazes me how many people are suckered online... You folks know alot of gardeners that garden in yoga pants and spotless work boots? Me either 😂

Wow! I learned SO much! Thank you!

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Where do I go to get chip drop now 😂?

Good idea...thank you for sharing..wish you success and be healthy always..

I love chip drop! I also have a full acre garden though, and a full orchard as well.

Thank you 😊

I use wood chips for my garden! Never got Chip Drop to work for me though..

I appreciate your humor and you explaining where to find everything (as a lay person/gardener this is very helpful!)!

Great video. Genesis Biochar is a great way to add permanent carbon to your soil.

היי קריסטינה.
שמי אושר ואני מישראל.
אני ועוד חברים צופים בערוץ שלך לומדים ממך המון.
אז תודה על הזמן שלך ועל ההסברים. יש לי חברים שלא מבינים אנגלית ורציתי לבקש ממך אם תוכלי בבקשה להוסיף תרגום בעברית כדי שכולם יוכלו להבין אותך טוב יותר וללמוד ממך.
בתודה אושר אברהם

Great video , I have 5 good compost piles .Thanks for posting .

Compost isn't technically soil (to be soil it has to include a minimum amount of sand, silt and clay) but otherwise a very helpful video! Everyone should compost if they can.

Except Chip Drop never showed up 😢. For me, anyways....

Humble beginnings ? really ??