Amyrose Foll travels to Mechanicsville to meet Mark Davis at Real Roots Food Systems to learn about worm composting and discuss the ways that local farms can connect communities to the food they eat.
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.
Randy Battle shares tips for starting seeds to grow in the fall garden and Jen Naylor shows how to improve garden soil with composted chicken manure using a traditional Korean hand tool.
Studio Extra:
Peggy is joined by Mark Davis to talk about making vermicompost and learn a simple method to extract nutrients and microbes from compost to use when watering plants in your garden.
