Finally starting to get the hang of filming some of my daily activities. Not the easiest thing to remember to do when there is so much actual work staring at you in the face. Roughly every other month for the past 2.5 years since acquiring this property, I’ve been chopping and dropping the weeds in order to rebuild the soils health as opposed to the western method of covering what’s bad with something good like its normally done in raised beds. Once you know what makes good soil, improving the health of a soil will for sure take time and and quite a bit patience. Soil degradation can result from the overuse of heavy farming equipment that compacts soils and makes it impossible for roots to grow. The lack of rotating crops over time will eventually deplete the soil of essential nutrients. Poor drainage will drown out root systems. There must be enough organic matter to facilitate chemical transfer of carbon as an energy source for the soil microbes. Microbes are necessary to decompose organic matter to make available chemical ions that must by taken up into the plant. Managing soils to maintain health and quality is as much a science as it is an art. Good soil aggregation—the minerals, air, water and organic matter—is essential for maintaining good soil structure that enables adequate air exchange and water drainage. For most of our history, the land on which we grow crops must have appeared to be inexhaustible. But it’s now far from the case. As the world’s population continues to grow, healthy and productive soil is rapidly becoming a scarce resource. Recognizing the importance of healthy soils is key to the sustainability of agriculture and should make us realize that healthy soil is a resource that we cannot afford to to lose! ・・・ #growninhaiti #soil #soilhealth #chopanddrop #gardenchores #foodforest #agroforestry #organic #laboroflove #growth #plantains #weeds #organic #organicmatter #nogmos #nopesticides #noherbicides https://www.instagram.com/p/B0_o6XUlat_/?igshid=c6cg0uzd8bnc
