The best yards begin with
healthy soil biology.
Here’s how to build it.
observe • go slow • design • integrate • harvest • iterate • renew
If your land looks like this…
Barren, eroded, devoid of visible life
…and you want something like this
Rich, green, full of life
The best way to get there is:
Whether you’re hiring us or doing it yourself, this is the proven process.
1. Till
While you should almost never till healthy soil, compacted dirt can use a friendly nudge to get going again.
Till organic matter (compost, leaves, kitchen scraps, soil amendments specific to your land) into the top 6-12 inches using a rototiller or broadfork.
2. Cover
Immediately cover the amended soil with several inches of wood mulch, grass clippings, leaves, etc. Order ahead of time from a service like ChipDrop.
This protects your soil from the sun & wind, conserves moisture and helps revive microbiology.
3. Plant
Finally, establish a diverse cover crop to kick-start the carbon cycle, stabilize nutrients, and provide next season’s mulch & amendments.
We choose a mixture of annual species like clover, buckwheat, cowpea, sunflower, annual flax, pearl millet, etc. as well as perennial ground covers like creeping herbs, myoporum, sunshine mimosa, purple heart, jade, and many more.
Follow this process now, and you’ll be fast-forwarding the process that nature takes years and decades to accomplish on her own. Within just one year, you’ll be growing more than you ever thought possible!
Want some help with all this?
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Tell us about your yard and we will set up a free discovery call. Or open the app and start planning it yourself, for free, on a satellite map of your own property.