Replay of Agrarian Food Web | Soil Health and Sunflowers | Patti “Amazing” Armbrister | Hinsdale, MT

This episode was originally  posted August 2018. It’s a great resource for building soil health. If you want to join the Patti Armbrister Fan club send me an email!       Connect with Patti Amazing Arbrister on Facebook at her Agrarian Food Web Page! I’ve been wanting to see some podcasts on you know the organic gardeners when we talk about soil health and composting and the principals of cover crops they just turn their lights off and don’t want ot talk because they are doing organic gardening and every single farmer including your household vegetable gardeners they’re doing production organics they’re on a fast pace to destroying their soils and don’t know it finally on fb yesterday, the day before one of my friends, she is a leader in organic gardening, she made a video on the same topic, when I started hearing about soil health she didn’t think they were talking about her, when she realized the principles are about her they have this mindset they are above and beyond soil health they are some of the ones the fastest What are they doing? To ruin their soil. These are the principles for regenerative farming or gardening 1.  Minimum disturbance to low disturbance boar bottom plow shovel chisel roto tillers use a broad fork a real shallow device That’s minimum disturbance 2. Keep the soil covered 24/7 365 other then the day you are going to pull the weed mulch soil should be covered so when you look at it you should either see dead organic matter  wood mulch/chips that you’ve added or you should  see live plants never see bare ground next rule or principal 3. Plant diversity more plant diversity Companion planting farming solar rays of sunlight that is coming to the earth as those plants do photosynthesis then they are dropping root exudates ~ they leak them out of their root system for the  soil food web Uses those sugar and carbohydrate Then they deliver to the plant something the plant needed. They do this with signals depending on the root exudates. Let’s say it’s a corn plant, it needs nitrogen. And next to it is a, tomato and a tomato needs...