1. SOIL THEMES
   1. Mulch
   2. Compost
      1. Brown Green
      2. Carbon Nitrogen
   3. Natural Building
      1. Sand
      2. Clay
      3. Silt
   4. Fertilizers
      1. Micronutrients
      2. NPK
         1. FOUR MAJOR DEFICIENCIES
            1. after these four minerals, check pH, water, overfertilization before other micro nutrients
         2. Nitrogen
            1. vegetative growth
         3. Phosophorous
            1. growth of roots
         4. Potassium
            1. flowering and fruiting
         5. Mg --
            1. cholorophyll production
         6. Subtopic 6
   5. pH
      1. soils lie between 5.5 and 7.5
      2. Ash is alkaline
      3. good Compost is close to neutral
      4. Fruit likes 6 - 6.5
      5. Veggies like 6.5 - 7
      6. Agricultural lime
         1. increases pH
            1. Agricultureal lime
            2. aglime
            3. biolime
            4. pulverized limestone or chalk --
            5. Calium carbonate
            6. increases pH
            7. provides Ca and Mg for plants
            8. Subtopic 8
   6. CHALLENGES
      1. yellow leaves
         1. lack of water
         2. lack of chlorophyll production or sunlight
   7. Forests vs. Annuals
   8. Rolling Pasture
      1. Cows turn grass to soil
   9. Mushrooms/ Mychorrhizal
      1. TED Stamets
      2. Subtopic 2
   10. Minerals -- NPK, Mg, CA, S
   11. DEFINE
       1. Loam
       2. Humus = Humans
       3. Dirt
       4. Soil
   12. Adam = dirt
   13. Eve = Life
   14. Seeds vs. Cuttings vs. Cobb vs. gardens vs forests vs annuals
   15. Farming Wildlife
       1. Creating Ecosystem is like having a chicken tractor
   16. the Living Skin of the Earth
   17. minerals of starts not our own
   18. Vadana -- We are made of the same 5 basic elements
2. Quotes
   1. ""To an organic gardener, the soil is the most important aspect of the garden."
   2. “The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.” -- Wendell Berry
   3. “Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.” -- John Dewey
3. Considerations
   1. Fertility
   2. Texture
   3. Structure
   4. Water holding capacity
   5. Drainage
   6. Rate of heating up in spring
4. PAGES
   1. WHAT IS SOIL
      1. ALIVE
         1. Macro
            1. Vermiculture
            2. Insects
            3. Roly poly, ants
            4. Subtopic 3
      2. Elements
         1. Nitrogen Carbon LIST
         2. Fertilizer
         3. Dynamic Accumulaor
      3. Clay Sand Silt Organic Matter
         1. Shake Test
         2. Natural Building
      4. Compost
         1. Organic Matter
         2. Humus
         3. Loamy
      5. Structure Texture
         1. Amending to a more suitable soil
         2. Cacti like sand
   2. Compost
      1. What is it
         1. Mulch
      2. How to do it
   3. PAGE 3 MULCH
   4. Hugelkulture
   5. Fertilizer
   6. PAGE 6
      1. MICROOORGANISMS
         1. Mycorhizzal
         2. Bacteria
   7. PAGE 7
      1. Natural Building
5. VIDEO
   1. Frame as Ecosystem builders
      1. Baobab as a water pump
   2. Compost happens
   3. What is soil
   4. Ways to Create soil
      1. Mulch
      2. Compost
      3. Microorganisms
      4. Hugelkutlture
   5. Ways to use soil
      1. Natural Building