How I Built Great Soil for My Garden

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PermacultureWomen

Oct 15, 2020

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Picture of a chicken sitting on soil and a woman holding a basket of vegetables.

Cartoon house and garden surrounded by trees — Cold climate and sandy soils

Woman holding a jar of soil, background showing soil testing triangle — Sand instead of soil

Cartoon dump truck, a pile of soil and a woman with a shovel and wheelbarrow. — Buying and moving soil

Woman with watering can of sparsely vegetated soil — Back to sand

Chickens outside a chicken shed — Chickens to the rescue

A picture of a chicken shed and secure pen to protect from predators like birds, fishers, marten, bears etc — Chicken predator protection

Waste chicken bedding in the secure pen — Waste bedding

Cartoon chickens scratching on wood waste — Bedding is not composting

Soil and leaves being added to chicken pen — Adding organic materials

Chickens pecking at a compost pile in their pen — Chicken entertainment

Woman with pitch fork turning over compost pile with help of chickens — Digging over the compost pile

Woman, chicken and a compost pile — A small pile of compost

Big messy pile of waste plants and food scraps — Plant and food wastes

Woman with a shovel standing on a big pile of compost — Keep adding to and working the compost

Chickens in a pen standing on a pile of compost. Plant growing next to the pen — Lots of compost

Woman with another couple and lots of bags of compost — Enough compost to share

Woman with watering can and garden next to a compost pile — Great soil and a healthy garden

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Tara Naylor

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