The key to growing healthy, disease-resistant plants is to begin with healthy soil. How can you tell if your soil is balanced? Healthy soil… Looks, smells, and feels alive Is soft, moist, and crumbly Is darker in color Is easy to dig into Has a sweet and earthy aroma Is home to worms and other…
There is much to do to preserve and protect our planet, but there is also much to celebrate when it comes to sustainable foods, products and practices. Here are five things to celebrate—and to build upon: 1. CSAs, or community supported agriculture, are growing rapidly across the U.S. These are farms that regularly provide their…
We appreciate hearing stories from farmers and gardeners who have experienced firsthand the benefits of Cascade Minerals Remineralizing Soil Booster all-natural volcanic basalt soil amendment. One of those is Millennium Farms in Ridgefield, Washington. Millennium Farms specializes in heirloom plants, also known as “old-fashioned” plants because they are usually grown on a small scale using…
It is important to feed the soil instead of just the plants. Chemically synthesized fertilizers do the opposite. They feed plants directly, without adding any healthy microorganisms back to the soil. The short term results are good. The long term consequences are bad. As beneficial living organisms die out, the soil becomes unbalanced and hard. Plants…
