Gabe Brown

This book was not what I expected and not what I thought I was getting into, but super exciting. Gabe Brown describes his journey into regenerative agriculture, based upon building healthy soil that follows the natural ecosystem of his land. As a backyard gardener, I’m not working at a scale but learned a ton of things. Not much about chaos gardening, which is why I thought I was reading the book :-), but a ton of things.

As a newbie learning about gardening, I found this book displayed at the public library and on my first read of this book, here is my interpretation for how to improve my veggie garden: 1. Try the idea of no tilling which means, instead of my original plan of tilling the soil every few years, try Brown's idea of leaving the soil alone and letting it slowly get enriched over time by adding compost and top soil on top and letting it soak into the soil. Tilling, I think, messes up the soil show more structure that is developing over time, instead, let it be. 2. Try crop rotation and keep planting seeds in the soil so that there is all year around roots in the soil. 3. Try the idea of cover crops where we plant multiple types of seeds to cover up the soil and this prepares and gets the soil ready for planting something else later on. 4. Try planting a wide variety of seeds. 5. Think about the benefits of using a website for people to place orders and decide pick up locations and also being a part of farmer's markets. show less