Long term care for organic soil  for orchard and garden, Dimboola

Description – organic soil from years of care
Location – 1 acre backyard organic home garden

Our values for this soil –
– Family inheritance from parents who built up the soil over their lifetimes.
–  Organic fruit, like apples, and vegetables for our family to eat
–  Beautiful flowers, like Iris, Chrysanthemum and  Gladioli, to decorate home and local Lutheran church for services

Our challenges and their managements for this soil –
– Increase the nutrients by composting and manuring
– Increase the water for needs of the plants by hand watering

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–  continuing long-term knowledge for family farming practises in this Savoie Soil Selfies
–   organic family farming challenges in these Australian Soil Selfies from Murtoa in the Wimmera,  Scottsdale in northeast Tasmania, Marlo, in Gippsland, Victoria, Manyana in coastal New South Wales and  Meringandan on the Darling Downs, Queensland
– soil care in LN post

Credits : Editing and page created by Jeanie Clark, enviroed4all®, Warracknabeal, for use in education under a (cc) licence 2015
Marg Hunter, of Dimboola, gives permission for these photos and information to be used under a (cc) license 2015

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page set up 22 August 2015, updated 10 January 2016