Tag Archives: soil health

Hungry for change

Starting out in the field of organic gardening today must be both exciting and somewhat overwhelming. There’s a world of information at our fingertips, and no shortage of options, opinions and offers to follow down the garden path. When I first studied horticulture, we mainly focused on the physical and ...

Building healthy soil and establishing avocados

As always, it’s been very busy in the horticulture department this season at the Ecovillage. With the vineyard planted out, we turned our attention to the avocado orchard. First up, we sowed a protective summer cover crop of sunflowers, sorghum and cowpeas on the side of the mounds just in ...