Celebrating World Soil Day
As if December isn’t busy enough, here’s another special event worth celebrating! World Soil Day happens every year on December …
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Bat Guano: The Plant Superfood With A Bad Rap
The Basics: What is Guano? Bats live in large colonies, sharing the same cave from generation to generation. As a …
Chop-And-Drop: No-Waste, Less Work, Happy Gardeners, And Healthy Plants
As the cooler nights set in, the blooms and foliage on many of our annuals and perennials are beginning to …
Easy DIY: Mulching Is Essential To Climate-Friendly Gardening
Mulching is one of the best things you can do for your garden! An essential component of regenerative-organic and permaculture …
Tips For Balancing Your Soil’s pH
Soil pH (or hydrogen ion concentration) indicates how acid or alkaline our soil or growing medium is. It is measured …
Dressed To Impress: Feeding Your Soil From The Top
Topdressing is an excellent way to feed your soil and, in turn, your plants. So in the words of Motley …
Here’s The Dirt: Hugelkultur In Raised Garden Beds
Gardening in raised beds offers many perks, like warmer soil and fewer weeds. They’re also easier on the back and …
Living Organic Soil: Digging Deeper Into Not Digging At All
The first and second parts of this series look at living organic soil, its benefits and how to build it …
An Easy Recipe To Building Living Organic Soil
In the first part of this series, we explored the new wave of indoor organic growing using living soils and …
Grow Your Best Crops With Nature’s Helping Hand And Living Organic Soil
Why do we grow our food? Most growers will say for quality, flavour, and freshness, and to achieve those things, …
The Month Of May Brings Longer Days, Warmer Soil, And Blooming Gardens
May is such a lovely month out in the garden. The soil warms as the sun shines throughout the day, …
November Garden Tips: Keeping The Garden Cozy And Soil Healthy
It’s November; the last summer and fall perennials have died back, their roots ruminating under frostbitten soil, waiting for spring. …
How a Topdressing of Easily Accessible Mycelium Can Raise Your Growing Game
…together and fruit again. Oyster mushrooms, the easiest and most common mushroom you’re likely to find as a tabletop “fruit your own” kit, enjoy eating up all the landscaping woodchips,…
My Fascination with Germination: A Grower Shares Some Tips And Tricks
After a long winter slumming it in our grow tents, ensuring the lack of humidity doesn’t kill the tropical plants …
Growing Advice: Is pH impHortant?
There are very few hot button topics that get indoor gardeners more riled up than the concept of “perfect pH”. …
Soil vs Substrates: How One Difference Changes Everything
Plants evolved over 600 million years ago into a microbial world. Their roots extended into soils teeming with microbial life. …
Want To Save The World? Start By Saving The Soil
What is “Living Soil”? It seems like a concept that has been gaining momentum in the 21st century. I won’t …
Experimenting With Substrates: Homemade Soil Mixes
It’s the first week in May as an intermittent hailstorm pummels the polycarbonate roof of Incredible Farm’s greenhouse. Head grower …
Time To Act: Six Ways To Save Water In The Garden
Clean water is something that most of us take for granted, but the fragility, dependence, and vitalness of water to …
Harnessing Nature Through Regenerative Agriculture
Hack an aspen tree down to its stump, and within weeks, it will regenerate new limbs. But strip away the …