Secrets of Soil Building - mini book

"Great information, very thorough discussion and recommendations for understanding your soil & learning how to improve it.” – Stephanie. 5 out of 5 stars.

Rich, healthy, alive garden soil is the key to success in every organic vegetable garden. Here’s how to compost, mulch, vermicompost, perform D-I-Y soil tests, and maintain fertility year-round -- so that you can produce food sustainably for years to come.

The Secrets are practical how-to tips and practices, well-tested and evolved over years of experience in high-yielding community gardens and home gardens. Explained in straightforward, matter-of-fact style, these Secrets are easily accessible even if you are a newcomer to organic gardening. If you are a garden veteran working urban-scale vegetable gardens, particularly if you are growing year-round or nearly year-round, these are the Secrets that will boost your productivity and yields.

Reaching far beyond "no chemicals," this book considers localized inputs, the post-consumerist era, and what it takes to grow your own soil fertility. With this approach you can participate in soil sequestration -- carbon capture within live organic soils -- which cutting-edge soil science is now proving may be the cheapest, easiest, and largest-scale way to stabilize our climate. The Secrets of Soil Building shows you how to participate in global solutions as you build long-term resilience into your garden.

Format: booklet, saddle/stapled
Page length: 40 pages
Language: English
Publication date: 2021, 2026 printing
Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Publisher: Change-Making Publications

About the series
The Abundant Harvest series explores how you can achieve abundant harvests of rich, nourishing vegetables within a tight city footprint without a lot of gardener time and without having to buy a lot of “stuff.” It is for home gardeners, community garden plot-holders, teachers and volunteers in school gardens, and urban farmers. The books can be read in any order.