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Fix your soil. Grow anything anywhere.
Better soil, healthier plants, Bison Underground.
Developing methods, services, tools, and machines for every scale and budget.
If you are a gardener, homesteader, or small farmer with poor soil, we can make it exceptional.
It's National Cat Day.
Cats in the garden was a luxury originally reserved for Egyptian Pharos. Now it's attainable by all with will, determination, and vision. Of course, it helps if you improve your soil in the process.
Here are our two feral garden cats, Skunky and Baby Jr.
Have you ever wondered what the soil was like in your yard or garden 1,000 years ago? What about 5000 years ago? How different is your soil today? How many different types of animals and plants interacted with it 1,000 or 5,000 years ago compared to today?
In 10 years will a house with improved soil and a garden producing healthy food be more valuable than one with pesticide, fertilizer, and PFAS sprayed all over the lawn?
Is a house with asbestos, lead pipes, and mold less desirable than one without? Was this always the case?
Just finished reading this paper on bio-degradable PLA in soils. PLA is a very common plastic used in agriculture. So much we still don't know, but what is clear is we'll need microbes to break this stuff down to get it out of soil, food, and our bodies. Those microbes need a functional working environment. Which means moisture, nutrients, and organic matter. The fastest way to give them that is by rebuilding the topsoil. The fastest way to rebuild topsoil is the Bison Underground method.
A devastating finding. washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
Copy these 3 good looking perennial combinations in our Fall Garden.
Looking for beautiful combinations to put in your fall garden? Need hardy to zone 7, drought, heat, and storm tolerant native perennials?
Guara and Prickly Pear (not on irrigation)
Asters and Muhly Grass (on drip)
Sunflowers and Indian Grass (on drip)
Grown in Central OK, survive freezing temps, ice storms, heat, drought (with some irrigation). Great for pollinators and wildlife.
These will keep on growing, easy to propagate, easy to manage with occasional yanking or pruning. The grass and asters will self seed around the garden, but are easy to identify and pull. Sunflowers can seed and spread via rhizome. Use to fill in other parts of your garden or give away to friends and neighbors.
Having a tidy good looking fall garden is a challenge we're still working to master, but the fall bloom is taking off. Being a little over grown is good for a spooky Halloween look anyway. Spent the weekend tying up the Maximillian sunflowers and asters. Will plant some fall greens to fill in gaps where we've cut things back.
New reel for my Dad's invention, Crab Clips. He was tired of his sunglasses falling off his hat, and figured others must have the same problem. He knew I like to tinker and build and figure things out, so he asked me to bring this idea to life. Made in the USA (by me and my dad)
Work from my PhD was just published.
If you're interested in dust, climate, and possible life on Mars check it out. Based on our experiments abrasion of wind-blown basalt sand could produce a significant amount of dust, assuming there was enough wind to blow sand around on ancient Mars. Here on Earth, mineral dust has a major impact on the climate, either warming or cooling based on the size of the dust particles. Our primary goal was to create dust from sand abrasion and measure the particle size distribution. Here on Earth (and Mars) Dust particles interact with incoming solar radiation (and outgoing IR), and act as nucleation sites for clouds. On Earth, dust from desert dunes fertilizes oceans and soils. If there was ever a biological cycle on Mars, dust would have supplied it with fresh nutrients.
Anyone else having a massive fall bloom in the garden? The plants are really enjoying the cooler weather. Been waiting all year for the asters and sunflowers. Pollinators are swarming. Everything is overgrown, but it will all get cut back and composted soon enough.
Evan is such a generous guy. Been offline & on vacation for a few weeks. Pleasant surprise to come back and be on this list!
Also, here's a map from the maritime museum on Santorini. Love the style from the age of exploration. Great museum to visit if you're on the island.
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I’ve been blessed with opportunities to see ancient sites and their geology all over the world (currently exploring Greece). They are still hiding plenty of mystery for anyone determined to dig in. I’ve become particularly interested in Bronze Age tech and Byzantine destruction/reconstruction recently. The sites people are drawn to, fight over, and build on for millennia. Symbols in their artwork. Patterned grooves worn by the wheel of time.
The Soil Restoration Simulator also works right in the browser on any phone. No app needed to see the difference between deep injection of organic matter and surface spreading.
If there are other elements or methods you’d like to see compared let me know. A-horizon thickness? Hard pan depth?
Our Soil Restoration Simulator is now live! The tool visualizes the key differences between the Bison Underground method and conventional gardening practices. See what happens when you take soil restoration underground!
As the simulator shows, injection sites create a series of organic matter- and amendment- filled macropores, replicating bioturbation; no unwanted burrowing critters needed. These injection holes improve water infiltration, bring air to roots, and act as habitat islands for inoculating new and diverse soil biology. The simulator is based on real world trials conducted in a variety of settings, all with meaningful results.
Try out the tool and make it rain at bisonunderground.com/pages/s…
Eventually I will add the ability to compare with traditional rototilling for both first year tilling and successive tilling, a mix of tilling and Bison method, and improved aggregate formation visualization.
Right now the focus is a visual tool that compares the Bison Underground method with surface mulching and compost.
Soil Restoration Tools are available! Perfect for soil focused gardeners.
Our Soil Restoration Simulator is now live! The tool visualizes the key differences between the Bison Underground method and conventional gardening practices. See what happens when you take soil restoration underground!
As the simulator shows, injection sites create a series of organic matter- and amendment- filled macropores, replicating bioturbation; no unwanted burrowing critters needed. These injection holes improve water infiltration, bring air to roots, and act as habitat islands for inoculating new and diverse soil biology. The simulator is based on real world trials conducted in a variety of settings, all with meaningful results.
Try out the tool and make it rain at bisonunderground.com/pages/s…
Eventually I will add the ability to compare with traditional rototilling for both first year tilling and successive tilling, a mix of tilling and Bison method, and improved aggregate formation visualization.
Right now the focus is a visual tool that compares the Bison Underground method with surface mulching and compost.
Soil Restoration Tools are available! Perfect for soil focused gardeners.
The simulations will continue until soil improves.
Soil Restoration Simulator coming soon.
Bison Underground
Build a garden and enjoy it.
Create beauty that otherwise wouldn't exist.
Put it in the front yard and share it.
Fix your soil and watch the transformation.
Let plants grow with full strength.
Grow more than you can keep up with.
Apply what you've learned next season.
These are pictures from my front garden this week. It was a Bermuda grass lawn when we moved in a few years ago. It is part garden and part laboratory. I'm a geologist and gardener. I have a PHD in Geology, and I'm using my knowledge of geological systems to create methods and tools that give gardeners the ability to quickly rebuild 12 inches of topsoil. By that I mean major structural improvements to depths of 6-8 inches in your first year. Improvements that compound over the next few years, with once a year soil restoration work, performed whenever it fits your schedule.
How? Use Bison Underground Soil Restoration tools to break up compaction, inject and incorporate organic matter and other missing elements deeply into the soil column, reintroduce soil organisms and soil biology (microbes and worms), feed the system and build stable aggregates with a thick canopy of plants.
The difficult problem for gardeners is breaking up and eliminating compaction to a significant depth. The best long-term solution is to create and maintain macropores that allow air, water, and biology to move through soil. This is how nature did it for thousands of years before. Burrowing animals and insects and deep plant roots incorporated organic matter to depth and prevented long-term compaction. Once life and chemistry are thriving in the soil again, positive feedbacks will rebuild a healthy thick topsoil.
Most of the methods new gardeners will find online for soil improvement either don't fix their problems, or will take a decade to show significant improvement at depth. It's no wonder so many are growing plants in plastic buckets and raised beds. They assume there is no way to quickly rebuild healthy soil, so they build a simulated system ABOVE GROUND.
If you want improvement at depth, you need to focus your efforts UNDERGROUND.
Thanks for reading. I hope your gardens are all doing well going into the fall. New website with more information on the method, how it works, FAQ, and Results of projects applying the method. Happy to answer any questions you have. bisonunderground.com/pages/h…