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We Work To Regenerate Soil

We believe that healthy soil supports a healthy environment, healthy food systems and healthy people.

At the Soil Farm, we educate, assist and inspire growers, gardeners, and conscious land owners to reconnect with nature so they can create bountiful, nutritious green spaces that enhance and protect our corner of the planet. 

It’s all about the biology…

When Soil is healthy, it is packed full of microbes.  These microbes live in symbiosis with the plants.  The plants photosynthesis and feed the microbes sugars, in turn the microbes feed the plants minerals and nutrients.

Through the use of chemicals and industrial farming practises, or contemporary garden and landscape management approaches, much of our Soil has been stripped of its biology and is turning to dirt.  Plants growing in dirt need constant synthetic inputs to ensure survival, they lack nutrient density and they are susceptible to disease.  With a lack of Soil biodiversity, there is a lack of above ground biodiversity too, not only this but dirt cannot hold water, losing valuable soil carbon into the atmosphere as atmospheric CO2.

Our friends at Kiss The Ground have explained this beautifully in The Soil Story Video below.

 

How Can We Help?


 

Soil Testing & Landscape Consultancy

We work closely with our clients to understand the condition of their existing landscape through a range of testing and visual observations.  We define goals and objectives, working towards these through the application of regenerative principles.

Whether you manage a small back garden or larger scale farm,  if you are interested in learning more about applying regenerative principles to your landscape, get in touch to book an initial site visit, free of charge.

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Composting Solutions

We employ a variety of composting systems to manage diverse, locally occurring waste streams.  Using this knowledge, we can help you to define practical and effective solutions for your own landscape management focused on regenerating Soil biology, reducing input costs and creating an ideal environment for plants.

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Nutrient Dense Food

Our small holding has produced an abundance of herbs, fruit and vegetables over the last few years for our family to enjoy, of course, sharing any surplus on our hedge veg.

We have recently expanded to include no-dig, market garden style beds to produce even more nutrient dense food to share with our community.

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Chickens

Our chickens enjoy the regenerative practices we follow, with fresh pasture each day, searching out bugs and grubs and finding shade amongst the trees.  They enjoy the scraps from the kitchen and the spoils from the gardens, producing tasty, nutritious eggs which are available on our hedge veg stall. 

You can experience the joy of chicken keeping, on a temporary basis, to assist with ground management, or as one of the best pets around. This can be for a season, year round or to try before you buy.  We can provide chicken tractors and coops to meet your needs.

Rent a flock Eggs

Worm Farm

We run several differing vermicompost systems, where our legions of tiger worms turn raw materials into beautiful, rich and microbially dense castings; an excellent natural fertiliser for any plant environment.

You can buy our castings in convenient 2L bags, great for topping up house plants or sprinkling into outdoor pots. We also provide 40L bags, ideal for top dressing borders, beds and lawns, with bulk quantities available on request.

Check our hedge veg stall for the 2L bags or contact us if you’d like more.

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Waste Streams

We love it when a phonecall goes like this… ‘hi, I have a load of [insert obscure ingredient here] that I think can be composted, do you want it?’  The answer is always yes.  If it’s organic matter and chemical free we can likely compost it, or utilise it in some way.  Some of our regular ingredients are pre-plate food waste, cardboard, shredded paper, green waste, brewers mash, coffee grounds, tea leaves, wool packaging and woodchip.  Some of the more obscure include SCOBYS, hair and boiled seaweed.

By processing these waste streams into Compost, we are keeping a valuable resource on island and unlocking its potential to benefit our landscapes.

Hi, I have a load of…

Awareness & Education

We believe that Soil health needs to be talked about! Whether it be simple conversations, event presentation, talks in schools or bringing a world class Soil Scientist to the island, we are here to spread the word.

If your meeting or event might benefit from knowing more about soil function, get in touch

Events Recommended Reading Talk to us about your event

Products

We supply diverse products including food, composts, seed mixes and natural additives, from our own processes and from trusted, well sourced partners to support growers, farmers, gardeners and land managers in their quest for healthier landscapes.  

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Craft Compost

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Worm Castings

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Bespoke Seed Mixes

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REMIN Volcanic Rock Dust

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Enriched Biochar

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Rootgrow™ Mycorrhizal Fungi

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Cardboard Chips

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Eggs

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Nutrient Dense Food

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First turn complete 💪🏻 This windrow has bee First turn complete 💪🏻

This windrow has been in temps every day since we built it and had its first turn today. 

Turning compost adds a vital composting ingredient - oxygen!  It also allows for water to be added to any dry pockets. 

Hand turning the pile ensures we are precise about the rebuild and saves on a costly gym membership 🏋🏼‍♀️😂

#compost #hotcompost #soilfoodweb #soilbiology #farmlife #regenerativeagriculture #whoneedsthegym #womenwhofarm
It’s cooking 🔥 #hotcompost #compost #thermop It’s cooking 🔥

#hotcompost #compost #thermophiliccompost #soilfoodweb #soilhealth #soilbiology #nutrientcycling #healthysoilhealthyfood
Another windrow hand built with care and considera Another windrow hand built with care and consideration and the knowledge that all this material will feed our crops next season. This beauty is layered with a huge mix of diverse ingredients, all carefully selected, free of chemicals and synthetics, rich in minerals, macro and micro nutrients. One of the layers is locally collected food waste - food waste creating food. Nature at its finest. 👌🏻
It will be cared for through its thermophilic phase, turned by hand, making sure every inch of the pile is composted and aerated. It will then mature and built an incredible community of microbes that will turn all those beneficial nutrients into plant food. 

Great compost feeds great food! 🥳

#compost #windrow #handmade #whoneedsthegym #handmadewithlove #soilhealth #nutrientcycling #local #wastefree #pesticidefree #organicgardening #soilfoodweb #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativefarming #healthyfood #healthysoil #composting
Our beautiful girl Olive bought home 7 babies toda Our beautiful girl Olive bought home 7 babies today. All being transported to our nursery at home. You’ll probably hear them from the hedge veg box! 🐔🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥

#chicks #happyhens #chickens #homestead #backyardchickens #cheepcheep
First cucumber harvest 🥳 #vegbox #hedgeveg #lo First cucumber harvest 🥳

#vegbox #hedgeveg #local #fresh #chemicalfree #food #healthysoil #healthyfood #healthypeople
We were able to make up 4 additional veg boxes fro We were able to make up 4 additional veg boxes from todays haul. Available for collection today from our hedge. First come, first serve. Who wants one? 🙋🏼‍♀️

Lettuce
Kale
Beetroot
Courgette
Patty pan
Rhubarb
Field peas
Mange tout 
Herbs

#hedgeveg #surplus #foodishealth #organic #local
Fully stocked hedge veg with todays surplus. 

📍Next door to saumarez park

Courgettes
Patty Pans
Sugar Snaps
French beans
Mange tout 
Eggs 

Enjoy 😊 

#local #fresh #veggies #eggs #hedgeveg #foodishealth #organic #pesticidefree #livingsoil #marketgarden
Weekly Veg boxes now available 🥳 We will be ma Weekly Veg boxes now available 🥳

We will be making up boxes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, available for collection from our hedge next door to saumarez park. 

Each box will have a mix of fresh veg and herbs, with a box of eggs on request. All grown in lovingly homemade biologically complete living compost, without the use of chemicals or synthetics. 🌱

The boxes are priced per item and invoiced for at the end of the month. 

We have had huge interest in these boxes and most of our slots have already been assigned to customers but let us know if you would like to go on the waiting list for when more slots become available by emailing sasha@soil.gg

#hedgeveg #vegbox #local #fresh #organicallygrown #chemicalfree #livingsoil #healthysoil #foodishealth #guernsey
Strawberry heaven 🍓🤤 #fresh #homegrown #mar Strawberry heaven 🍓🤤

#fresh #homegrown #marketgarden #food #foodishealth
First harvest of patty pan, adding to the 8kg of p First harvest of patty pan, adding to the 8kg of produce that was harvested from our no-dig beds today. 💪🏻

Fresh, local, regeneratively grown and available on the hedge. 

Let me know if you would be interested in a veg box…

#hedgeveg #csa #vegbox #veg #pattypan #squash #fresh #local #organic #marketgarden #vegetablegarden #goodfood #foodishealth #regenerativeagriculture
Todays haul. All heading out onto the hedge. 🥬 Todays haul. All heading out onto the hedge. 🥬 

All our produce is grown in compost and soil that is rich in beneficial microbes, creating healthy plants and healthy crops. Zero chemicals. Zero artificial fertilisers. 

Mange Tout £2
Sugar Snaps £2
Lettuce £1.50
Beetroot 50p each

Plus the usual eggs, soil amendments and plants 🌱

#soil #soilhealth #soilbiology #food #veg #hedgeheg #local #organic #plants #eggs #wormcastings #healthyfood #nature #regenerativeagriculture #nodig
We’ve got a range of plants on sale on the hedge We’ve got a range of plants on sale on the hedge this week

🍈 Melons
🫘 Runner beans
🌿 Rocket 

Plus the usual eggs, herbs, worm castings, biochar and fungi products 

☀️ 

#hedgeveg #local #growyourown #food #veg #eggs #plants #gardening #wormcastings #biochar #forsale
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25th March 2021

To achieve a nutritionally dense and flavourful tomato, rather than just a juicy red looking one, and to ward off pests and diseases in the process, the tomato plant needs access to a wide range of minerals. It gets these from the soil.

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Where is all the food?

17th March 2021

If lockdown has clarified one thing for us, it has been the importance of fresh and clean locally produced food.

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