Does Permaculture chop and drop work? A soil building secret!

Is this garden overgrown?

Biomass on your permanently raised beds provides food for soil microbes. What is the best method to handle an overgrown garden?

Take a tour of this garden to see how we handle late summer growth. Appropriately managed, you can turn biomass into soil fertility, nutrients and capture carbon.

Permaculture style chop-n-drop does work to transform weedy growth into garden beds. It takes time. You can start with simple tools. However, you do it, you’ll turn atmospheric carbon into the soil.

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It doesn’t matter how large or small your garden is; proper cover crop management is essential. In this example, the cover crop came from a natural seed bank in these old fields.

It doesn’t matter where you start, as long as you start today.

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