How billions of microbes can save your garden and your health

In episode 6 of Wartime Homefront Essential Skills, Marjory Wildcraft and Tom Bartels explain how healthy soil depends on billions of microbes working symbiotically, like the human gut microbiome. Plants feed these microbes with root exudates, cycling nutrients naturally. Chemical fertilizers disrupt this, weakening plants. Bartels shares three low-effort composting methods—vermicomposting, hot composting, and leaf mold—and advocates deep aeration and intensive planting to boost soil and reduce watering.

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