Reaching out to experts out there that have germinated seed in your nursery. Question - If you use soil from your land to germinate seeds.... A) Does it depends of type of seed/plant (vegetables, trees, flowers) B) Do you have to watch for bugs in the soil. (ants, spiders, rolli pollie, etc). If so, what action steps to be taken? C) If the seed needs to be leaning towards acidic soil, can it still germinate in slightly alkaline soil? Or does it matter at all? Any other things I should be watchful off?

https://www.skool.com/oasis-builders-8012/classroom/f85f59fa?md=0819ba92b33e4ccda7928568939c2291 I'll be doing a presentation today if interested going through commercial food and the logistics behind how it makes it to the grocery store; giving some food for thought; why we should grow at home or question where did this food come from. Healthy Soil => a Healthy Life Today @ 1pm - 2pm Chicago time Note workshop time: We start at :15 AFTER THE HOUR and run for 55 minutes. Learn how living soil affects plant health, food quality, nutrient density, harvest timing, chemically treated seed, and the gap between field and plate. Jim focuses on soil as the start to a good life. https://www.skool.com/the-art-of-energy-and-strength/about?ref=ddad3ade077a450b800da620ad9499aa

Hello, Are you a plant it in spring and harvest in the autumn gardener, or do you plan you space so you can harvest one plant in time to plant another keeping your beds optimize all season?

Observation Everyone did a great job yesterday with understanding that observation is the first step to walking alongside of nature. I think the do nothing while in observation is the hardest for me. We are inherently fixers. We fix the house, we fix the family and we want to immediately fix nature. The most important for us is to understand, nature is not broke, just disturbed by human interaction. Natures Balance Nature is always striving for balance even under pest pressure. In natures trophic levels, when a pest or really anything is over abundant, this adds strength to their predator (more food), and the predator population increases which in turn lowers the pest population. Then in turn the predator population decreases because there is less food for them. This works at all trophic levels; nature simply balancing her own. Pest Pressure Although, instead of observation, at the first signal of pest pressure or in commercial farming as a preventive measure, pesticides are introduced. The immediate problem is handled although we might wipe out a entire trophic level or a complete family of pests including pollinators in one application. Not only does this throw nature out of balance, but will also strengthen others because we also wiped out their predators. Observation When I have a pest, number one I have a susceptible plant and I need to observe why; does the plant normally attract the moth like with brassicas. What's the life cycle of that pest? Would increasing a nematode in the ground benefit next year? Do I need to plant certain families away from other families? Be the investigator to understand what a pest does in natures cycle and then how can helping nature naturally tip the balance be the right earth care thing to do. What are your thoughts? Todays Question? Bare soil acts like what during a hard rain?

Yesterday I turned the compost pile a couple days late. I should have turn on Saturday although sometimes life takes precedent. On stress, Nor hype. We turn when we can. The two things that would elevate the compost priority is high temp over 165F (74C) because it can ignite or low temp (under 130F 54C), not getting the job done. This pile stayed 140 - 148F (63C) for the entire 4 days before I turned. Middle was not dry and only peppering of actinomycetes bacteria found if low oxygen; a little is ok, just do not want large clumps of areas with limited oxygen. pile was 122F (50C) after the turn. Checked on my sugar snap pea and spinach babies; I have one 8' strip of grow lights that I alternate back and forth between them for 6 hours a day. Temperatures have been in the 60's (15 - 16C) so no heat needed. Couple early lettuce sprouted but not many. No carrot sprouts yet.