This year, we are trying our hand at making soil blocks for starting our seedlings. We are brand new market farmers, beginners, just like you! The two main reasons we decided to use soil blocks are because we can decrease our use of plastics, as there are no plastic...
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How To Make Eliot Coleman’s Soil Blocking Mix For Soil Blocks
As you may or may not know, we are starting a market farm this year and we have decided to use soil blocks as our primary method of starting our seedlings. In order to give our seedlings the best chance possible, we are making Eliot Coleman's soil blocking mix from...
DIY Soil Sifter For Soil Block Potting Mix
We built a soil sifter! More accurately, Jon built a soil sifter! We will be outlining all the steps Jon took to DIY our soil sifter using mostly just materials we had on hand. We did need to purchase an inexpensive screen, unfortunately, we did not have one of those...
How To Make Soil Block Trays For Your Market Farm
In order to reduce cost, as well as the number of plastics we're using on our market farm, we decided to make our own soil block trays for starting our seedlings this year. We made 3-sided and 4-sided seedling trays because we are not sure which design we will like...