Lawn Care, Soil Life
A customer wrote to us recently. She had been with us for several years. She knew the soil was healthier and safer for her dogs. She also said the lawn was full of weeds, not pleasant to walk on, and didn’t look any better. That message is more common than people...
Lawn Care, Soil Life
Think of it as a wet-compaction perennial. Where it falls StageTypical plantsWhat the soil is doingCreeping Charlie1. Disturbed / bare / crustedCrabgrass, chickweed, purslane, pigweedSurface sealed, little coverRare unless already in the seed/stolon bank2. Early...
Lawn Care, Soil Life
This series of photographs tells a story that many people in regenerative lawn care know all too well. The first image was taken on May 21, 2025, shortly after we started working with this property. The lawn was thin, patchy, and the soil looked tired. Fourteen months...
Lawn Care, Soil Life
Galen Tuggy from Hillside Gardens Ltd in Holland Marsh (Bradford, ON) did his first microbiometer test on my Johnson-Su compost and said:“𝗡𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲!” Then he actually handled it while prepping an extract and sent this: “I just sorted out some compost to use in an...
Lawn Care, Soil Life
A conventional fertilizer bag usually gives you only 3 minerals (Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium) in a high-salt, quick-release form — plus sometimes a few synthetic hormones or fillers. Our Nature’s Brew delivers dozens of minerals + biology + natural growth...
Lawn Care, Soil Life
Start of the growing season. From our front door to the farm, the conversation is the same every spring: “Time to fertilize.” NPK is the norm. It has been for 186 years. In 1840, Justus von Liebig gave the world the foundation of modern fertilizer. It was...
