Closing the Circle
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Closing the Circle

Food for the heart. A tribute to Wendell Berry, who knew that real knowledge begins in imagination, and imagination grows from quiet love that values a person or land far beyond what they can produce.

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How is Web of Life Vegetables & Flowers Compost different from the Trees, Bushes & Canes Blend?
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How is Web of Life Vegetables & Flowers Compost different from the Trees, Bushes & Canes Blend?

You’ll notice larger woody pieces in our Compost for Trees, Bushes & Canes. This is because we deliberately refrain from screening compost bound for perennial plants to a specific size so that it retains a good variety of aged wood chips. These larger decomposed wood chips are perfect habitats for a proliferation of beneficial fungi. Think of walking through the forest and spotting mycelia trailing across decaying wood. Perennials thrive in fungal soils.

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Revitalizing your Soil for Nutrient Dense Food
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Revitalizing your Soil for Nutrient Dense Food

This interview with Joshua from Greenstar Cooperative’s Holly Baker describes how we make Revitalize! Compost and why it contributes to a vital ecosystem that fosters abundance, disease resistant and nutrient dense food. Thank you Holly!

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How I Make Biologically Rich Compost Extract, Garden-Scale
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How I Make Biologically Rich Compost Extract, Garden-Scale

A simple method to deliver beneficial biology and nutrients to the roots of your established plants, or to spray it on aerial plant surfaces for disease prevention. I'll show you how to turn biologically rich solid compost into a liquid extract.. a powerful tool to restore your soil food web ecosystem. For restoring fertility, nutrient-density, and stronger disease resistance in your plants.

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Introducing Web of Life Compost for Living Soil
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Introducing Web of Life Compost for Living Soil

Introducing Web of Life Compost for Living Soil, an inoculation-grade compost line that gives gardeners and growers of all kinds a powerful set of tools for regenerating a complete soil ecosystem. We're part of a small but growing network of biological compost producers who are generating a vital resource for the emerging new paradigm of regenerative soils.

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How does Nature Do it?
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How does Nature Do it?

Ever wonder how a tree in the forest can grow so big.. without needing us to add fertilizer? One answer is that Mother Nature has evolved an elegant system that gives plants in undisturbed soil access to all the nutrients they need.  It has come to be known as the soil food web.  

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Healthy Soil is Living Soil
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Healthy Soil is Living Soil

After spending time learning from a handful of inspiring and creative Earth restoring pioneers, getting my own hands into the organic matter, and immersing myself in the developing art of soil regeneration… I have two simple and powerful approaches to help you restore living soil in your gardens, orchards, fields and landscape.

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