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Give Your Soil-And Yourself-A Break


Give Your Soil-And Yourself-A Break

When soil is disturbed, carbon is released. Farmers use no-till methods to keep carbon in the soil. You can use no-till methods, too! If much of your garden is devoted to permanent plantings of native trees, shrubs, and perennials, you’re already practicing a form of no-till horticulture.

Cultivated soils have lost 50-70 percent of their original carbon stock, much of it oxidized upon exposure to air to become C02.