Agriculture, Gardening And Soil Health

The Roots of your Garden are in the Soil

High quality soil is the key to any healthy herb garden. First, you must determine what type of soil you have, and then you can establish a plan for improving and/or maintaining it. This is one of the most important aspects of gardening because, along with needing water and sun, plants need nutrients that they [more...]

How to Make Money Raising Earthworms

Earthworm business opportunities might amaze many people in the world today as to the volumes of information available on the subject. There are several things that a person must know before leaping into the dirt for their first batch of success. Earthworms will work for the right entrepreneur.

The first thing you must assess before starting [more...]

Excerpt: Ten Acres is Enough

INTRODUCTION

The man who feeds his cattle on a thousand hills may possibly see the title of this little volume paraded through the newspapers; but the chances are that he will never think it worthwhile to look into the volume itself. The owner of a hundred acres will scarcely step out of his way to purchase [more...]

Australia’s Giant Earthworms

Every garden bed should have a few of these! It looks big enough to be a pet..

Garden Rant has posted a clip of the giant Gippsland worm.

On Earthworms…

Gippsland has big worms. Now you [more...]

Vid: Pasture-fed: farmers explaining how it works.

A great vid of farmers explaining why pasture-fed is so [more...]

In praise of the earthworm (Time Magazine, 1941)

In 1906 a young Texas physician and surgeon named George Sheffield Oliver read Darwin’s book on earthworms. A descendant of the James Oliver who invented the steel plow, George Oliver was living on a five-acre plot, and he decided to try earthworm culture on his grounds. Soon earthworms were such a big part of his life that he gave up his medical practice for [more...]