Soil Health
What CEC on a Soil Test Means for Your Small Farm
Your soil report came back with a line that says CEC 6.2 meq/100g, and nobody at the feed store could tell you whether that is...
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Every guide we have published, newest first. Field notes, equipment breakdowns, and the occasional argument with advice that sounds good in a magazine and falls apart on an actual plot.
Soil Health
Your soil report came back with a line that says CEC 6.2 meq/100g, and nobody at the feed store could tell you whether that is...
Raising Animals
Your best laying hen has legs that look rough, crusty and oddly lifted, like the scales are being pushed up from underneath.
Growing Food
You put a whole bed of potatoes in, hilled them twice, and dug up a crop of marble-sized tubers or a few big rotten ones.
Crop Protection
Your cucumber transplants looked fine on Monday, and by Thursday the leaves are full of ragged holes and one vine has gone limp...
Tools and Machinery
Your chainsaw is throwing fine dust instead of chips, pulling to one side and making you lean on it to get through a fence...
Soil Health
You know your ground drains slowly in March and cracks in August, but you do not know whether that is clay, silt or compaction...