The document discusses healthy soil and cover crops. It recommends getting a soil test from your local Extension Office or Midwestern Bio-Ag for a complete analysis. Cover crops add biomass and improve soil in various ways depending on the crop, such as suppressing weeds, fixing nitrogen, or breaking up clay. Buckwheat can be tilled in after blossoming to add biomass. A winter mix of rye, hairy vetch and crimson clover provides soil cover and nutrients into spring.

1. Soil layers

2. Soil food web

4. Healthy soil cycles

7. How it feels

8. What it grows

9. What helps the soil

10. Composting

11. Creating bulk compost

12. Growing Power compost on asphalt

15. Compost warms greenhouses

16. Recycled gardens

17. Benefits of cover crops

19. Add biomass

21. Use of hairy vetch—prevent weeds in squash beds

22. Use of winter radishes

23. Use of winter wheat

24. Use of rye

25. Winter mix—rye, hairy vetch, crimson clover

27. Beautifully useful—clover & batchelor’s buttons

28. No-tillage

29. Chisel plow

30. Weed suppression/organic decomposition