How to Heal Your Soil

No — this course is designed to be accessible to most gardeners, from complete beginners to experienced growers wanting to move away from chemicals. Bridget and Henrietta deliberately condensed 20 years of research into simple, practical techniques that work in a small to medium garden, and they explain everything from scratch, including the basics of carbon and nitrogen. Even if you only have a pot on a balcony, the principles they share will make a real difference.

The compost cake is a layered, no-turn method The Land Gardeners developed with New Zealand grower Kay Baxter, built in a 1.6-metre circle using alternating layers of carbon, nitrogen, clay and a little old compost as an activator. Unlike windrow composting, you build it once, cover it with straw and leave it for around six months — no daily turning required. In the course you'll watch them build a cake from start to finish in France, then return to a finished cake in Cornwall six months later to see the results and learn how to sieve and store it.

Green manures are fast-growing cover crops such as phacelia, mustard, buckwheat, field beans and Hungarian grazing rye that keep living roots in your soil to feed the microbes, suppress weeds, fix nitrogen and break up compaction. The course shows you exactly how they crimp or cut green manures down and plant seedlings straight into the stubble, rather than digging them in, so the soil is never disturbed. You'll also see their planting cycles, like sowing field beans over tulips and following on with cosmos, which you can apply to flower borders or vegetable beds.

The Land Gardeners bring together two decades of hands-on research and mentorship from pioneers including Kay Baxter, Lady Eve Balfour, Rudolf Steiner's biodynamic tradition and Austrian soil scientists Angelika Lübke-Hildebrandt and Urs Hildebrandt, distilled into methods you can actually use at home. Filmed on location at La Rongère in France and Bokelly in Cornwall, it combines real garden demonstrations — including bed preparation with landscape architect Emmanuel Taillard — with the bigger picture of carbon sequestration, nutrient-dense food and planetary health. It's a course about healing soil, not just gardening, with a recommended reading list to continue your journey.

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