ORGANIC FARMING
USDA-Certified Organic is still our best guarantee that the food we buy is free of synthetic fertilizers, persistent pesticides, GMO’s, sewage sludge, and irradiation.
“How are your products grown?” customers ask. They don’t want their trust abused.
Should you get organic certification? If so, I’d like to help you source the NOP-allowable materials, amendments, and pest deterrents.
Or would you rather develop more eco-farming practices? I’d love to help you.
Organic methods get us off the chemical-poison treadmill.
Sustainable means we slow or hold the line on degradation.
Regenerative means more than quit tilling and plant a cover crop.
Regenerative means shifting your growing system to:
See profit increase through reducing input costs
See your farm as an ecosystem to manage, instead of a series of seasonal tasks
See weeds as benefits instead of competition
See bare soil as financial loss instead of the proper tidy look
See more ways to build resiliency to drought, flood, & temperature spikes
See more ways to gain productivity and profit through biodiversity instead of NPK applications.
Grow –actually grow—more topsoil & fertility
Employ more ecological services with regenerative practices
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Regenerative Consults for gardeners and market gardeners:
I voraciously read, study, experiment, and hob-nob with practicing ecological and regenerative gardeners.
How to put more parts together on your land?
I can help you on this regenerative path, no matter how small your operation.
I offer classes, videos, & consults. Please contact me & save my brain from “Un-used Information Syndrome!”
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Regenerative Consults for farmers:
I am steeped & jazzed about the latest research and on-farm success stories.
I would like to walk your land with you.
I would like to help you incorporate the new biological and ecological tools for less work and more profit.
I would like to serve as your coach.
I would like to help you put all parts of the program together so nature does more of the work.
Your cost-savings will easily cover my modest fees.
ORGANIC FARMING RESOURCES:
Soil Health Innovations: FREE Video
Juicy tidbits from the Alaska Botanical Garden Spring Conference: March 12, 2022, where Ellen Vande Visse of Good Earth Garden School is one of the presenters. The video features several informative presentations over five juicy hours of soil health topics, all available for free through the Alaska Botanical Garden.