Showing posts with label soil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soil. Show all posts
Monday, September 7, 2026

Soil Cover - An Important Consideration in Soil Health

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Covering the soil is one of the most basic things you can do in soil conservation.  If you walk in the woods, you always see the ground cove...
Monday, January 26, 2026

Louisiana Grass Roots - The Cajun Prairie

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  Our town has an old theater in the downtown area.  We've gone to see plays that are put on there by a community theatre.  They'll ...
Sunday, May 5, 2024

Improving the Soil

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One of our projects on Our Maker's Acres Family Farm has been a work to improve the soil in our garden and side garden.  We've used ...
Monday, July 17, 2023

A Brief Getaway

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We've been radio-silent for a few days.  I had a conference for work that I had to attend to get some CE credits to keep my license acti...
Sunday, February 26, 2023

A Happy Medium

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I did a whole lot of planting in the garden on Saturday.  It got me thinking about soil.  To start my seeds, both in seed pots to transplant...
Thursday, March 31, 2022

Applying Biochar to the Garden

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Back in February, we made  THIS POST  to show how we were making biochar for the garden.  You can click on the link to learn how we do it an...
Sunday, February 27, 2022

Making Biochar for the Garden

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It was chilly and building a fire sounded nice.  I also had on my to do list to make some biochar for the garden.  Two birds.  One stone.  W...
Monday, August 2, 2021

Uzziah Loved the Soil

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"He also built towers in the wilderness and carved out many cisterns, for he had much livestock, both in the lowland and in the plain. ...
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Wednesday, June 2, 2021

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  “The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it ...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Before And After

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I had a big double row of zinnias growing on the last row of the garden before the sugar cane.  For months it gave us beautiful technicolor ...
Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Making Biochar for the Garden in 2019

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We have live oaks, water oaks, and pecan trees in our yard and pasture.  They are forever dropping limbs.  We have to pick up sticks in the ...
Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Summer Garden - Almost Done

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This weekend I had ambitious plans in the garden.  I wanted to work up some rows and plant a few more things.  First I moved the electric ne...
Sunday, December 30, 2018

Preparing For the Spring Garden with... Metal Mulch

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Several years ago I watched  The Back To Eden Film  to learn about a neat gardening technique.  The Back To Eden Gardening method is one tha...