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Is My Soil Healthy?
Start here for soil basics
Growing amazing organic food starts and ends with the soil. Understand what soil is and whether yours is healthy, and learn simple, practical skills to support the fruit trees and other plants in your garden.
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The Art of Compost Tea
Supercharge your soil
Become a skilled soil builder with this little-known but valuable technique for rapidly building soil fertility.
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Improve the Health of Your Garden
Capture the nutrition from garden waste
Close the nutrition loop in your backyard and save on fertilisers by safely recycling garden waste.
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Compost That Works
Make your own “black gold” and capture the nutrition from garden waste
Learn how to make your own high quality, reliable compost—every time! Turn garden waste, food scraps, animal waste and even newspaper and cardboard into nutritious compost full of organic matter, nutrients and healthy soil microbes. Close the “nutrition loop” in your backyard and save on fertilisers at the same time!
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Natural Fertility for Fruit Trees
Feed your trees an organic diet
Apply knowledge about basic soil health to plan how to feed your fruit trees through the year, without breaking your budget or spending unnecessary money.
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Build a Worm Farm and Harness the Power of the Worm
Powerhouse workers in your garden
Worms are amazing at creating rich nutrition for your fruit trees. Earthworms (in the soil) and compost worms (in your compost farm) play different – but equally important – roles in helping you grow nutrient-rich fruit. This course will show you how to harness the power of worms to rapidly turn your waste into nutrient-rich soil.
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Build Soil Fertility With Green Manures
Develop your “green thumb” and use plants to heal the soil
Master the organic fertility technique of planting green manure crops to improve soil nutrition, crowd out weeds, and heal the soil of diseases.
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Soil Biology and the Soil Food Web
Become an earth lover by unlocking the secret world of microbes beneath your feet
Understand the amazing world of soil microbes that are key to the Natural Fertility System, and how to make your soil a welcoming home to healthy microbes (and not the nasties).