Soil is composed of layers that actually accomplish important purposes – to just till it all up destroys those benefits. Thus, the broadfork. Working your soil with a broadfork will not allow dormant ...

This article on how to build a broadfork is excerpted from a 1980 MOTHER EARTH NEWS interview with French intensive gardening expert John Jeavons, author of “How to Grow More Vegetables and Fruits ...

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Mike Gray and the panel of experts break out the Broadfork to put fun back into gardening. Mike Gray and the panel of experts break out the Broadfork, an old garden tool, to put some fun back into ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Some things are too good to be true and others, like the broadfork, only seem so. The broadfork, a ...

Three ducks stood sentry at the driveway leading to Broadfork Farmstead in Greensboro last Monday afternoon. The menagerie on the 13-acre, solar-powered homestead also includes dogs, goat mamas and ...

Small farms have a pretty big advantage. They don’t need to ascribe to industrial means of growing. That means less tilling and fewer pesticides. The ability to have a regenerative operation is much ...

Some things are too good to be true and others, like the broadfork, only seem so. The broadfork, a simple hand gardening tool, provides amazing soil health and fertility benefits, which would be more ...