Don't grow plants grow soil. I love it.

I've been doing this in Florida for a year now. The  sand in my yard has turned dark, holds together and retains moisture for a week or more now where as before I had to water daily. Plants are also growing much faster and a deeper green. I've keept the soil continuously covered in shredded yard prunnings, shredded weeds, and fallen leaves to a height of a couple inches to several inches. The stuff decomposes rather quickly feeding the micro-organisms that transform the soil. I even notice mushrooms popping up now here and there! and some earthworms! I replace the prunnings just as quickly as they decompose so the soil has not been uncovered since I started the method. I'm pretty amazed because I expected it would take years to see any improvement.

yup, something I have learnt is that there is no such thing as developing BRAND NEW, groundbreaking agriculture techniques. Life has been here for billions of years. All we have to do is imitate what works in nature. We are just the caretakers.

Came across this video in 2016, changed our garden forever. Than you brother ♥️✌️😊🙏

@naturalfarmer, i enjoyed your video on how to turn sand to soil. Im a farmer and avid organic gardener, and I've had experience in transforming hard clay soil into rich humus type soil.... I make my own compost with the useual table scraps like banana peels, egg shell's, coffee grounds etc" as well as leafs and grass clippings and livestock manures. I not only top dress the soil but work it into the soil as well, now i have rich and workable soil instead of just hard clay..... By the way you can get free used coffee grounds at your local star bucks and coffee shops as well as restaurants just by asking the manger, you leave a five gallon bucket with your name and phone number when it's full they will call you. Imagine doing that around the city, you would have hundreds of pounds of free nitrogen rich compost to transform your soil..... I read about one older lady that never owned a rototiller in her life, but instead laid down around a dozen layers of news papers or you can use cardboard, and she covered it with several inches of leaves and grass clippings and soaked it down with water and dug holes and planted her tomatoe plants in it..... Now many years later she doesn't even bother digging holes with a tool, she simply keeps adding more leafs and clippings every year and just parts the compot with her hands, and set's her transplants in, no tools needed anymore.

This is the most inspiring video on soil I have ever seen. I'm stuggling with poor soil at the moment and this video might be the answer. Thank you so much.

Wow, thanks for sharing! I did a soil test on my current garden plot in Liberia and it showed N, P, and K all totally depleted (with. Ph of 5). Fortunately, I spent the rainy season building a nice stockpile of compost, which I am planting all my seeds and seedlings into.

However, next year I will be relocating to 25 acres near the border with Sierra Leone where I am building a homestead. I had already selected several different kinds of legumes to fix nitrogen and also be used as green manure, animal fodder, or food for my family. I’m encouraged by what you shared in this video and will definitely incorporate these practices into my plan. Thanks again!

I always grow my maincrop potatoes with a mulch covering of cut comfrey, which I grow onsite for mulching purposes. Last summer we had a Mediterranean summer in the UK (once in 50 years we get one - last one was 1976) and I still had a magnificent harvest of potatoes, despite not seeing any rain from mid June to late August and temperatures regularly over 30C. The comfrey mulch protected soil moisture and the autumn rains bulked up the tubers to give a magnificent harvest. I do similar for trailing cucumbers and bush tomatoes grown outdoors in the soil.

Here in 2026 with my dream yard and the soil is so sandy.  Best videos ever.  Thank you 😊 ❤😊

I'm going to try and do this in the Arizona desert

This is so beautiful! So nice to see how easily nature works out when you do it the way nature develops, how God designed it. Thanks man😃

Seen the movie hundreds of times 😁😺

Looking forward to applying this in a Food Forest at Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in Saskatchewan Canada.  I'm aware of zone and climatic differences, but many of the principles still apply just with a bit of adjustment based on location.

I'm just starting my permaculture adventure, and amongst all i was thinking a similar way to "organize" my sandy soil. I'm using broad beans because of their deep roots, maybe I'm rushing it but we'll see 🙈. Great to have found this channel, it's one of the best so far on permaculture topics 😊

In gardening I think in terms of maxium food value for humans...  fruits, berries, mellons grapes, cherries, hot pepers, lemons, herbs and spices, pepermint, cucumbers, tomatoes.  Its hard to describe how great blackberries, cherries, conchord grapes, watermellon, blueberies elderberies and strawberries are.  Thank you so much for sharing your soil building secrets with us.

We just plants a ton of beans and made mounds so excited-Lakeland Fl

Thank you so much. This video is  a great education for Florida Gardeners. We have very sandy soil, and much of it is exposed to direct sunlight.

Thank you, good wishes, enjoy our beautiful Ocean Planet.

God bless you, and may the Lord bless your entire family members! You're a good farmer. Your presentation to improve the sandy soil is awesome. Thank you!

This is the best video I've seen on the subject of sandy soil. Thank you