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Discover regenerative growing practices for your garden

Red wiggler worms help break down organic material into nutrient rich compost.
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Red wiggler worms help break down organic material into nutrient rich compost.

Peggy Singlemann visits Mountain Run Permaculture in Sedalia to talk with Mark Angelini about keeping soil productive and how to use a permanent bed system to avoid compaction.

Amyrose Foll travels to Mechanicsville to meet Mark Davis at Real Roots Food Systems to learn about worm farming and discuss the ways that local farms can connect communities to the food they eat.

In the studio Marco Thomas demonstrates how to make a liquid fertilizer rich in microbial life.

Jen Naylor shows how to improve garden soil with composted chicken manure using a homi, a traditional Korean hand tool. Randy Battle shares tips for starting seeds to grow in the fall garden.

milk is poured into a glass vessel in the process of making lactic acid bacteria
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Marco Thomas uses milk and leftover water from boiling rice as the main ingredients to produce lactic acid bacteria, a powerful soil additive.

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