I would advise aged wood chips. I like this guy Charles Dowding for no dig info.
https://www.youtube.com/@CharlesDowding1nodig
Ideally if I am start a garden from scratch with ample time I would use a weed wacker and take the grass down as low as I could. Use a silage tarp to cover the area, it takes less time to kill of grass in heat of summer. When the grass is all killed off and incorporated and you're left with bare soil, you can then add your compost. If you like you can layer in other organic matter, but I find it best until you have built the biology to stick with finished compost. If you are doing no dig, you can plant into these composted beds and mulch with grass clippings or leaf mulch for best incorporation of organic materials.
If you have no time and need a garden. The lasagna method is a good way. Cardboard, compost, some kind of mulch all right on top of the existing soil.
I like a guy Richard Perkins who is a great market farmer, he uses wood chips strictly in his walking paths.
The main factor is creating your beds, and keeping those beds established. Many say avoid walking on these beds but Charles walks in his. He has a lot of trial gardens with different tillage methods and soil compositions.
We personally do what I call minimal tillage. We create permanent raised beds using a BCS walk behind tiller (after the tarp and composting). Using the tiller I will loosen the soil, then using the rotary plow I will form raised beds. To these beds I add more compost before planting or sowing seeds. For new garden plots where the area is too large for organic mulch we use woven ground cover, a reusable plastic that lets water through enough while keeping your beds weed free.
I also really like Jim Kovaleski, he is all about using a scythe and feeding your garden grass.
Whatever method your gardening is, it will always improve with time so don't get frustrated. If you have weeds, the most important thing is to remove them before they go to seed. Otherwise I consider weeds soil re-mediators. They pull nutrients from different depths and I like to chop and drop my weeds when I can.
For wood chips in your actual garden, it would be good to have a healthy active biology, that is to say, healthy soil will break down and incorporate those wood chips better than poor soil. This is the microbes and fungi at work. Poor soil can be negatively effected by wood chips in the garden in that they can pull nitrogen during decomposition.
I prefer a thick layer of compost and grass clippings
Or professionally made compost, or homemade compost. Whatever you can get. Many municipalities collect leaves and make compost free for the community.
Farming and gardening have a learning curve. It takes work, which most liberals don't like to do a lot of. So for them a pile of soil on cardboard is a garden.
Really, growing in a bag of soil isn't a bad idea for renters who have limited space or just a balcony.
Community Supported Agriculture
We use silage tarp to stomp out our garden plots. Using sand bags to weigh it down, it does a good job after a few months of leaving you with bare soil. For problem areas we will transplant into woven ground cover, which we have burned holes in at the appropriate spacing, this can be reused. After several seasons of keeping weed pressure down, you will go through the seed bank providing you aren't allowing any weeds to go to seed.
End of the season for us is, clean out all the beds. Spread compost. Lay our silage tarp. Garden is warmer, drier, and weed free so we beat all the tractor farmers into the fields for planting. For gardeners you could use cardboard, or any tarp really. Imagine flipping over a rock or log that is a bare spot of rich soil and a ton of insects.
Big ag is bad. Your local market farming who is doing a CSA and selling at the farmers market it probably legit.
2 acres. No tractor. No sprays. 24 CSA members a week. 2 farmers markets. Husband and wife, no employees. We rely on insect netting instead of pesticides. We use agri-bon floating row cover for season extension. We also have 2 hundred foot tunnels. Doing about $80k a year. This is on leased land while we are renting an apartment.
Find your local CSA farms and hit those farmers markets. We're creating the parallel economy in your backyard.
Edit: I should note, I greatly encourage people to garden and take pressure off of the greater food system. Not to mention, nothing beats growing your own and knowing how it is grown and handled.
They feel so threatened. All we are doing is winning in the public square of ideas. They have to legally bind people to allowing them to behave the way they do. They can't let us in the ring for they will be figuratively knocked out. It's a shame there aren't any real threats to check their reality... Gitmo
Fuck grocery stores. Go to the farmers market and demand whatever price you want from the willing customers.
We are aware, they are working according to our agendas goals.
I get along with everyone I've ever met. It's the people screaming tolerance and diversity who can't seem to tolerate diverse ideas and opinions.
Satan wants to be like God. Everywhere, all the time. Creator and ender. Savior and provider. Inside you and out. AI is exactly this. AI can create an alternate reality that people will willfully participate in. Through date collection AI can track what we do, look at, where we go, even our biometric data about how our bodies are behaving physiologically and therefor psychological observations can be ascertained. People will be led to believe AI will have all the answers to our problems.
Am I missing anything? May Jesus save us from Satan's temptations.
From AlJazeera: Opinions We are ‘greening’ ourselves to extinction
Apocalypse investors are pushing fake climate solutions on us that are making climate change worse.
Vijay Kolinjivadi
Protect your DNA. It's your evolution they wish to direct.
Run father run!
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/29/us/california-gun-laws-mass-shootings.html
I used remove paywall to view article
ESG scores will be forcing all big business to go woke
If it quacks like a duck...
Iran next?
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Identifies as "figure skater"
I think he gave up more than we realize. It's not just the directed evolution of flu variants. It is the directed evolution of life itself.
Once upon a time, an inch was given.
If everyone was strapped, less people would want to find out about fucking around.
Biggest funder is... pfizer
This guy knows.