Garden Soil Lessons from an unconventional Ag guy, Karson Rippstein (S5, E13)

In this episode:

• A different way to look at "farm to table"
• Where to start when analyzing your garden soil
• How to start with the outliers when analyzing your soil (regardless if it's macronutrient or micronutrient or ph)
• How Agronomy--large agriculture farming--analyzes a soil test
• How the example of vitamins added to a poor diet correlates to soil supplements added to unhealthy/dead soil
• How this soil test doesn't record minerals in soil that are tied up, only ones that are available to plants
• Signs of healthy, alive soil
• Signs of unhealthy soil
• Why manure, humates, compost, sea minerals, and volcanic minerals are the best additions to most gardens
• Why a book may not be your best resource when trying to learn about improving your soil
• Helpful, hands-on resources to learn more about soil health
• Tested results of using chicken manure as a soil amendment
• The most convenient animal poo to use as soil amendment
• The "More-On" principle
• The importance of balance in your garden soil
• How big should your garden be before you do a soil test?
• Best plan for testing the soil in raised beds
• Does healthy soil produce more nutrient-rich food?
• Is homegrown food genuinely superior to large-scale farming food?
• The value of bentonite clay to garden soil
• What Cation Exchange Capacity is and why every gardener should know about it
• Why & how salt and clay add different value to your garden soil
• What humates are and how they improve cation exchange capacity
• Where (and WHY) to get salt for you, your garden, and your livestock.

Resources: 

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