Defining “Organic” could consume too much of both of our time so i think it would be easier for me to just show you how we operate and you can set your own parameters. Bear in kind; in the Organic camp there are folks who go in for and hotly defend the use of Vegan inputs!
Then there’s the Organic liquid nute folks who IMO are just barely under the umbrella!
if your a reader there’s numerous articles out there going back 6-7 decades that will keep you up at night. Folks like Dr. Elane Ingham and Albreicht, Shumway and others who didn’t really pioneer anything but they did try to keep American agriculture on a more natural path.
Right off the bat i tell folks to learn how to make Aerated compost tea. It’s simple, affordable and will give you the most bang for your buck in the garden, on your yard and flowers. We will get into this a little later but what i want to do is introduce you to the tools and then we’ll talk about how to use them. Proper compost tea will go along way toward building your soil and provide some remediation on ground that’s had chemical’s used previously.
About here you need to decide how deep you want to jump in here. If you’re committed the first thing that has to go are chemical lawn and garden products; they kill the microbes which are the most essential building blocks we have.
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@Phaedra Geiermann ’s approach to the lawn!
‘Another experiment I have been doing recently is changing the lawn.
I have no love for the stereotypical and monotoned lawn. The dry summer caused pretty serious damage to the lawn (especially the grass), so I sowed many different seeds about two weeks ago (as I know from the forecast that we would have about 10-days rain), including grass, clover, alfalfa, oilseed radish.”
Our lawn is 70-80 percent white clover, with a healthy mix of Dandelion, Plantain and some grass. The lawn edge is red clover, comfrey, self heal numerous mints etc. The bees forage all of this during the flowering times and when it’s mowed and added to the compost it’s a lot healthier Input than regular grass clippings.
next; decide whats the most important to you and start there. You cannot possibly make a full organic commitment and carry it thru in the first year.
chew on this a bit and we’ll move on based on your responces.