Equipment for Healthy Soil, Less Toil, Minimal Till (and no more Rototiller!)

🍋 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- - - We chat with Zach Loeks, an educator and grower who specializes in edible ecosystem design. He talks about the two-wheel tractor, a versatile piece of equipment that he says can be used by backyard gardeners, homesteaders, edible landscapers, and in community gardens.(If you’re about to skip this episode because you don’t want more equipment…stay a while. Zach has insights into soil and tillage too.) In this episode we talk about:A look at the 2-wheel tractorHow it’s different from a rototillerHow home gardeners, landscapers, and homesteaders can use 2-wheel tractorsWhat can a 2-wheel tractor do beyond tilling (spoiler alert: they can blow snow and bale hay too!)Earthworks for swales, berms, and beds on contourTillage: minimum till vs. no-tillZach is the author of The Two-wheel Tractor Handbook.