Building Garden Soil with Free, Local, and Abundant Resources
How we use free, local, abundant resources to build our garden soil.
OYR is all about growing a lot of food on a little land using sustainable organic methods, while keeping costs and labor at a minimum. Emphasis is placed on improving soil quality with compost, mulch, and compost tea. No store-bought fertilizers, soil amendments, pesticides, compost activators, etc. are used.
Featured videos:
Coffee Grounds: How and Why We Use Them in Our Garden http://youtu.be/uA5K5r_VXLs
How We Use Eggshells in Our Garden http://youtu.be/8l7ScIh107o
Spent Brewery Grains: A New Free Resource for Our Compost http://youtu.be/ZpIxtjT5lh8
Improve Soil Fertility with Leaves: http://youtu.be/ExuE9rgcbZ8
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Very helpful, thank you.
Nice simple well put together video
Thank you for sharing.
Love this. I had no idea about municipal mulch programs. Turns out my nearest city had one! I gotta clean out my truck now lol
Human manure is the answer if done correctly.
If you get a composting toilet, than you wouldn't need all the synthetics, it would be a closed loop nutrient system
Thanks for all the great information on your channel 🙂 I was using a lot of these resources until 2021. So far this year I have been unable to find a local source for any type of manure that is free of aminopyralids. Lots of farmers and ranchers claim that their manure is "organic," but change their story when you ask them to give you something in writing that it's 100% free of persistent herbicides. Have you had any similar experiences? If so, please consider updating this video to include them.
I’d love a follow-up to this talking about the ratios of each kind of compost you use and how you mix it and when to apply it to the garden beds.
Spent brewery grain is something I did not think to check on! Thanks!
If you have a local greasy spoon nearby, you can get a ton of eggshells for nothing as well. Just rinse them before you dry them, and then run them through your blender to make eggshell sand. Juice bars are a huge source of nitrogen-rich waste, and if you know a local sawmill or woodworker, you can get a lot of sawdust to mix with it. As you said, it's all free for the taking if you know where to look.