From Chapter 10 of “Healthy Garden Healthy You” by Milo Shammas Composting The most common form of composting is basic and simple. Gather up as many leaves as you can one morning. Rake them into a pile. After dinner that…

From Chapter 11 of “Healthy Garden Healthy You” by Milo Shammas Humus comes from the death and decay of organic materials that have fallen from leaf litter or other raw organic matter that get incorporated into the soil. You could say…

If your soil presents specific problems with its structure-for example, being very wet or very dry-rather than expend great quantities of energy trying to bring it closer to the norm, you can always copy nature, and grow those plants that will thrive…

Some 450 million years ago, plants first spread out over the land. As slow colonization progressed, an interaction began between the underlying rock and the remains of plants. Soil, in all its various forms, was gradually being produced and eventually became the…