How-To Home Soil Tests: 19 DIY Tests and Activities for Learning More About Your Soil

by Leigh Tate

Overview

Offers simple at-home tests for soil texture, stability, pH, drainage, and earthworm counts. Learn how to make your own pH paper, read soil colors, and what your plants can tell you about your soil. Includes charts, tables, glossary, further resources, and why all soil lab test results are not the same. A good resource for gardeners, homesteaders, homeschoolers, and budding soil scientists.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940046587685
Publisher:	Leigh Tate
Publication date:	02/16/2015
Series:	The Little Series of Homestead How-Tos from 5 Acres & A Dream
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Leigh Tate has always loved living close to the land. From the back-to-the-land movement to the modern homesteading movement, the agrarian lifestyle is the one she says feels like home. She and her husband currently homestead five acres in the foothills of the Southern Appalachians. Their vision is to become as self-sustaining as possible by stewarding their land, animals, and resources. Leigh's homesteading activities include gardening, food preservation, foraging, raising goats, chickens, and guinea fowl, herbs, cheese making, permaculture landscaping, spinning, weaving, knitting, sewing, quilting, natural dying, soapmaking, wood cookstove cookery, and renovating their old 1920s farmhouse.