#no-til

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The ultimate fertilizer is the same plants you’re growing, but dead.

Sow, but don’t harvest, let everything go. Just once. Let everything come to fruition.

The seeds of the ripe fruits will fall down and spawn again.

As decomposition sets in, the soil gets fed all the nutrients that same cultivar needs to thrive.

Then, next generation, only harvest half of your crops, let the rest fertilize the soil. Living no-til soil is a self sufficient fertilizer machine.

Simply harvest only half of your total yield and let the rest feed the soil. This way you need not do anything else but harvest to the highest of standards, manually, without the need of machines, leaving what is not great to become the best fertilizer for the next generation of itself.

This way the soil is never depleted but only ripens because it can eat a large portion of the fruits of its own labour. More intense and varied flavors can be expected. Better resistance as well. The information about the local weather and soil is stored in the seeds and the DNA has adjusted itself accordingly, to increase chances of survival.

Mother Earth is very clever this way.

Combine with a wide variety of cover crops for best results.

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[divine-nonchalance]

The Rogue Method . Regenerative Agriculture

All one needs to invest in to get started is many different seeds and sow them by the fistful, then only the best will aways survive. Include nitrogen fixing cover crops for fertilisation.

Harvest only half of what you get and let the rest go back to the soil, then for the next season you won’t even need to sow, it’ll all just sprout by itself from the seeds that went into the soil from half the harvest you left there.

The seeds will sprout at different times, so even with rough weather early on there will always be those that sprouted later that’ll survive. Or vice versa, you may lose the later sprouts while the early sprouts thrive.

Walking paths can be created throughout the land in geometric patterns with a thick layer of bark/wood chips mixed with a variety of mushroom mycelium. Mycorrhizal species can be selected for maximum yields, since they entangle themselves with the roots of the crops, creating a symbiotic relationship with the plants and the soil life. They feed not only the plants but also the bacteria and other microbes necessary for the cycle of life.

Mycorrhizal fungi provide the crops with an array of nutrients and water which they absorb like a sponge, very much acting like the nervous and circulatory system of the soil. Fungi thrive on carbohydrates, which are provided by the fruitbodies from the crops that are not harvested and instead are left behind to feed the soil life.

When left alone, life creates more life.  

It’s so simple and easy. Every new generation of crops will be stronger and more flavourful.

After sowing once, all that is needed, is to harvest only half, for the rest of your life, and your children’s lives, and their children’s lives… That’s it.

You’ll leave behind a legacy of fertility and food security along with an increase in fertile soil and stronger genetics, adapted to the local soil and weather.

This method can also provide peaceful and safe jobs for the traumatised and depressed.

Very beneficial for children as well and anyone who desires to establish a closer connection with that which created us, that which feeds and nourishes us.

The creative intelligence that is living organic soil.