Ready to Grow Your Soil Knowledge? Let’s Dig In!
The presentation of a truly healthy plant takes time to perceive, and it’s more than the hue of green, how big it is, how fast it grows. We can learn to recognize plant health by picking up on nuanced color, structural form, reproductive vigor and uniformity, flexibility, and environmental resilience as health indicators along with taste, smell, and texture. These subtle plant health characteristics can be perceived with our senses, and we can learn to read the soil the same way.
We have partnered with the Soil Health Guide to help our members learn about and foster the health of the soil in their own backyards.
Seeder members receive a 25% discount off of a consultation; Planter members and above receive 100% off. Each member is eligible for one consult a year.
Here’s how it works:
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Make sure your membership is active on this website by logging in. You should see discount code information in your Member Portal. If you are not yet a member, please sign up for a membership. Contact info@bionutrient.org with any questions!
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Visit the Soil Health Guide’s BFA page and follow the instructions to sign up for your initial consult and collect your soil samples. Use your code at checkout.
Our Soil Health Guide: About Faith Reeves
Faith Reeves is a soil health guide with over a decade of experience in farming, education, and research. Her journey towards becoming a soil health enthusiast was shaped by her zeroing in on her interests, studying, experimenting, observing, reflecting, and repeating. She started building her foundational understanding of soil health while studying soil microbiology, permaculture principles, and plant biology in college. She later spent over a decade developing and managing a 3+ acre project farm, which she transitioned into a thriving perennialized, diverse polyculture system interlaced with annual fruits, vegetables, and herbs.
Faith regards her farm as a living laboratory and stewards it with regenerative principles, biological nutrient cycling, on-farm DIY fertility inputs, community outreach, education, and research. She has also studied with many of the present-day luminaries in the fields of biological farming, regenerative agriculture, Nutrition Farming™, soil microbiology, permaculture, Korean Natural Farming, and more. Faith holds a deep desire to support a more synergistic farming future by guiding and supporting growers to develop a reciprocal relationship with the land they manage.
Your garden is your greatest wellness tool
We are reflections of the care we take, the food we eat, and the time we commit. If we are blessed to have land to steward and soil to caretake, the health of the plants that grow in that soil reflects the care we take.
The presentation of a truly healthy plant takes time to perceive, and it’s more than the hue of green, how big it is, how fast it grows. We can learn to recognize plant health by picking up on nuanced color, structural form, reproductive vigor and uniformity, flexibility, and environmental resilience as health indicators along with taste, smell, and texture. These subtle plant health characteristics can be perceived with our senses, and we can learn to read the soil the same way.