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RE: Homesteading is important to me because.... -- Homesteading Challenge 1
I enjoyed every word of this. Your way of living is an inspiration! Thank you for being such a great steward of your land and please do preserve it so that when you're gone it lives on. What do you do to your soil to keep it at Class 1? (Also love the fiona apple reference :) she was my jam in middle school) Resteemed!
Thanks, @jaymorebeet, for the resteem, too! This place will make a good pocket park with community gardens after I'm gone, and I volunteer for a local group that can make that happen. But I hope that's still a few decades away, lol!
Class I soils are so forgiving. They structurally have great drainage, yet can hold moisture well, too. They aren't subject to erosion. They are deep soils. They have good mineral composition and structure. My soil is a silty-clay-loam. I have never found a subsoil layer -- according to soil information for my property, my topsoil is more than 12 feet deep. Topsoil! Even if it gets compacted when it's wet, it recovers quickly -- in months or even weeks. The worst thing I could do is cover it with concrete or buildings! I do keep putting organic matter back into my soil, but the Class designation has to do with its basic physical characteristics.
And I'm happy to know another Fiona Apple fan! She's still one of my very favorites. : )
Now you've got me interested in the class of the soil around my neighborhood...Probably a 100. Hah! - Man that amount of topsoil is amaaazing!! Also.. i made a decision to do karaoke on a cruise to F.A.'s criminal. Oh boy....
haha -- I had to laugh about the karaoke. It would be hard for anyone to sing any of her songs!
It's so informative to find out about your local soil. I'll put that on my list of posts to write and maybe even make a video. I can't get to that until mid-August, I don't think. But there's a lot of information about our soil, thanks to the old USDA Soil Conservation Service (now the Natural Resource Conservation Service).
Yeah I can kiiiind of laugh about the karaoke - but then the laughter turns to tears when I realize that I let myself do that....oh boy....
Looking forward to your local soil post!!