Maintaining a no-till garden is simple, but it is not without work. You replace the tilling and digging with mulching and covering the garden soil. A covered soil does not have to be tilled. It stays soft and becomes better the longer it is maintained. We cover the question of to-till or ...
Back to Eden
Starting a new no-till garden with tilling
This blog article is about starting a new no-till garden with tilling. We are sharing how we converted a pasture into a garden. We talked about methods to start an instant no-till garden, also how to convert the existing tilled garden into no-till. Today we are sharing yet another way to ...
Replace Your Lawn With Food Production
While mowing the little lawn that was still left, I was hot and sweaty and mosquitoes were bugging me. I could not help but think how much work lawn mowing actually is. Thankfully, we turned our yard into a garden and replaced all our lawn with food production. It was work too, but seriously not ...
Challenges with the Back to Eden Method
We are big fans of no-till gardening methods. We got into it through the Back to Eden film, a documentary of a sheet mulch gardening method using wood chips or other natural mulch material. Mulching is just the best thing one can do for a garden. There is no tilling or digging needed any ...
Tilly’s ‘Back to Eden’ garden experience
This week my friend Tilly, a mother of 8, an amazing homemaker and gardener, shares with us. Back to Eden is a documentary movie about a gardener named Paul Gautschi. In the film he explains his mulching method. Tilly tried out this gardening method in her northern garden shares her experience ...
Back to Eden – the Film
BACK TO EDEN shares the story of one man’s lifelong journey, walking with God and learning how to get back to the simple, productive methods of sustainable provision that were given to man in the garden of Eden. The organic growing system that has resulted from Paul Gautschi’s incredible experiences ...
