Category: Soil

The compost tea brewer is a custom designed machine by Living Soil Network. Assembled on site, it aerates the compost tea mixture over a period of time. The plywood box is sound insulation. The device is a cylindrical plastic bucket tapering to a cone bottom. An air pump (like in an aquarium) is placed in…

Developed about one acre of wheat field from raw pasture. Turning raw pasture into wheat field required numerous passes of various tractors, implements, and compost injections. A keyline plow was used to make deep furrows and shake the earth from beneath the surface—it does not move lower soil to upper soil. Compost extracts were dripped…

The 2025 season was characterized by extensive work and exploration with the Living Soil Network. Roseanum Foundation and Living Soil Network worked in collaboration to bring more fields into soil suitable for nourishing food cultivation. Living Soil Network is a non-profit with the mission “to transform unhealthy soils into living fertile ecosystems.” Learn more about…

When we sat down before the holidays to review 2024 and plan for 2025, we decided to add a new approach to farming in one of the gardens. This is: NATURAL FARMING Beginning with the 2025 growing season, Roseanum Farm will be planting an area according to the the Natural Farming method. The Natural Farming…

This interview is with Robin Jameson and Spero Latchis, who run the non-profit Living Soil Network, with its mission “to transform unhealthy soils into living fertile ecosystems.“ Q: What is living soil? Spero: I think the word “living soil” is chosen because it indicates the truth that soil is full of living organisms – healthy soil,…