This is the everything soil class. It covers the life in the soil and how it helps build your soils health, how to improve your soil quality, and how to use cover crops to maintain and improve the soil your garden depends on.
0:25 What is Soil: Mineral Component
4:36 The Importance of Pore Space
5:37 Organic Matter
7:32 Living Organisms
9:13 Common View of Soil
11:15 The Issues with That View
15:18 What's Going On?
16:51 Where Does the Energy Go?
17:51 Why Would Plants Feed Them?
23:25 The Fungi: Bacteria Ratio
27:27 Why Aren't All Soils Great?
30:24 Requirements for "Good" Soil
32:58 Mineral Rule
35:47 pH Range
38:09 Good Drainage
39:27 Organic Matter
40:49 Soil Life
42:35 Improving Oxygen
43:48 Food for Soil Life
46:55 The Soil Life Has to Be There
49:15 Cover Crops
50:51 What Cover Crops to Plant
56:28 Planting Cover Crops
57:26 Killing Cover Crops
59:51 Killing Cover Crops: Flatten & Tarp
1:01:55 The Whole Process