Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Approach to No Till

🍋 Lemon Camp: September 17 and 24Grow a healthy, productive lemon tree in a pot. In these two live online sessions, Steven Biggs covers watering, feeding, pruning, repotting, pests, flowers and fruit—and how to get a lemon tree through the winter.Recordings are included, so you can watch afterwards if you can’t attend live.Learn more and register for Lemon Camp- - - In this rebroadcast of the radio show that aired live on July 7th, we talk about soil and no-till practices with market gardener, farm journalist, and podcaster Jesse Frost.He’s the host of The No-Till Market Garden Podcast, and he and his wife are no-till farmers at their Rough Draft Farmstead in Kentucky.Frost’s new book is The Living Soil Handbook.Choosing a No-Till ModelFrost says that there is no one-size-fits-all model of no-till growing.It depends on the context — things such as soil, rainfall, climate, and the crops being grown.No-till is as varied as the growers using it.3 Principles to Grow ByA successful no-till system goes beyond not tilling.Frost suggests three principles growers and gardeners can use to guide their approach to tillage:Disturb the soil as little as possibleKeep the soil covered as much as possibleKeep the soil planted as much as possible