What is soil?
Soil is a mixture of organic material and microbial life that acts as a medium through which plant life expresses itself. More abundance and diversity of life in the soil equates to richer and productive plants.
What is GOOD DIRT?
GOOD DIRT is a craft soil, made organically following the principles of natural farming. These principles include using local recycled materials and native microbial populations to build resilient, regenerative soil specifically designed for use in the Cape Fear region.
GOOD DIRT is a fungal dominant soil inoculant that can be used by itself to build soil from scratch or can be added to already existing soil or organic matter to enrich and enhance the living soil system.
GOOD DIRT can be used to grow any plant life - from fruit trees to annual gardens to grasses and shrubbery. From feeding your family to providing privacy from your neighbors, GOOD DIRT is the key to building your paradise!
How is GOOD DIRT made?
The process of making GOOD DIRT begins with identifying healthy ecosystems in the area. Old growth trees and land undeveloped or undisturbed by human activity is primarily where these areas are found. An offering of rice is presented and left in the forest. From these rice collections, microbial populations can be collected and stored.
These microbial populations are then expanded and added to piles of various carbons and carbohydrates. The primary ingredients by volume are wood chips and spent brewery grain, with smaller additions of wood char and rock dust which are added for microbial colony stability and mineral content. Horse manure is then added to the pile as it continues to cure before complete.
As the microbial life is initiated and starts working, the temperature of these piles begin to rise. All batches of GOOD DIRT are kept below 140 degrees F. This temperature control allows for a stable range in which fungal microbes can thrive. Allowing the piles to go past 140 F will result in the death of much or all of the mesophilic range of life, of which fungi resides.
From left to right: New batch of GOOD DIRT one day after mixing; GOOD DIRT showing fungal blooms while organic material is reducing in volume; Finished GOOD DIRT product; GOOD DIRT after its been in the garden for a year.