Soil Health

Learn a simple, effective crop rotation strategy for your small-scale market farm. Understand beneficial vs. detrimental crop families and how to rotate for healthier soil year-round.

Learn how to select, plant, and terminate cover crops on your small-scale market garden. Proven seed mixes, planting methods, and termination strategies from nearly three decades of commercial growing.

Learn how to break up compacted clay soil, add organic matter, and prevent compaction from returning. Practical strategies from a farm that started on heavy Tennessee clay.

Learn the most efficient way to broadcast soil amendments and cover crop seed using a chest-mounted spreader. Technique tips, powdered amendment tricks, and timing advice from an experienced grower.

Learn how to approach soil testing as a market farmer — which results to trust, which books to read, and why standard soil tests don't always tell the full story. Practical advice from years of commercial crop production.

Struggling with poor sandy soil and overwhelming weeds? Learn how to add organic matter, address nitrogen deficiency, knock down your weed seed bank, and prevent weeds from coming back.