Chopping down biomass for soil health

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What if those weeds in your garden were the pathway to soil nutrition and productivity? The plant's many called weeds, bring up nutrients from deep in the soil. They also turn atmospheric carbon and nitrogen into soil elements that feed biology.

In this video, I cover various ways to hand end of season overgrowth. Letting beds grow out after vegetation with the right tools, you can turn growth into mulch. This mulch becomes compost in place.

Learning more about growing biomass to feed soil is an ecological solution for boosting land productivity. To learn more practical methods for holistic land management, join us, https://www.prosperityhomestead.org/newsletter/

To see what it's like to mow with the BCS America tractor running a 30" flail mower, https://youtu.be/M8SsbWl-cxI

Get a close-up view of the lower garden terraces being mulched with a tractor running a bush hog, https://youtu.be/qfI3-zU-nnY

Ask your questions in the comments. You can do this.

With the right garden design, you can boost the abundance of your land. Growing biomass while developing your beds is an excellent way to reduce the seed bank of newly cultivated land.

To learn more about classes at the Sustainable Homestead Institute, visit http://www.sustainablehomestead.com/

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