here’s something interesting Malcolm Beck said when he was being interviewed by Graeme Sait:

If the weed is a true weed, then it will gradually disappear when you balance the soil. However, in Texas we have a forage crop that’s our biggest weed. It’s called Johnsongrass. It’s a high protein forage crop. The richer you make the soil, the better it... See more

Every so often I read

Masanobu Fukuoka’s

The One-Straw Revolution

to remind myself I sometimes have very little idea of what I’m doing in my garden – and my life.

In some ways it’s a troubling reminder while in other ways it’s quite freeing.

Troubling because I teach gardening so I’m supposed to know some things about that, and because I live my own... See more

if we were to grow food by working with nature, including returning all organic matter (such as straw from grains) back to the soil,