Steve Adams

Fix your soil. Grow anything anywhere. Better soil, healthier plants, Bison Underground. Developing methods, services, tools, and machines for every scale and budget. If you are a gardener, homesteader, or small farmer with poor soil, we can make it exceptional.

It depends on the worm type. The recent anti-earthworm stuff comes from an asian worm that is believed to create problems in northern forest soils. North America has native worms. And European worms aren't a problem as far as I know. In my experience in small garden settings they have a growth then a decline cycle as the soil changes. Around this neighborhood we have all varieties, from invasive red wigglers (common on worm farms and baits), euro-night crawler types, and what I'm pretty sure are native earth worms, both shallow and deep dwelling types. For this particular method, earth worms are great at transposing the organic matter from the individual holes out into the rest of the soil mass. This part of lawn is isolated by pavement on all sides, so it would need worms introduced. I dug hundreds of holes, and didn't see a single worm.

@SteveAdamsSoil Aren’t earthworms technically invasive?

Will need another yard of compost for a surface dusting to germinate seed, but holes are filled and finished. Thinking about buying a bag of worms to release. The robins will have a feast next spring.

@GreenGoesLeft Will have tools available soon. Aiming for shipping first round in July. Have tested single tine enough to put out first production model. Have metal, welders, and powder coating sourced. Made in USA. BisonUnderground.com is where I'll have the shop.

@SteveAdamsSoil Intriguing

I'm building tools that allow every gardener to recreate functional disturbance that restores healthy soils. Restoring soil function and health is more than No-Till. Pleistocene soils weren't tilled in the modern sense, but they were disturbed. If you want to return to the health of Pleistocene soils, you have to go beyond surface solutions. Solutions need to be placed Underground.

@Dallas_w_esmith @DaleSteele11 @Nelson_NPlains @AgDayTV @ClintonReports @ReutersAg @snodgrss Exactly

@DaleSteele11 @Nelson_NPlains @AgDayTV @ClintonReports @ReutersAg @snodgrss Imagine if we switched subsidized crops to large herds of rotationally grazed ruminants? We could rebuild the soil banks the buffalo deposited and all be healthier for it.

Highway 83 North of Minot, ND yesterday May , 14th. Top soil accumulated like snow during a blizzard estimating 5”+ while parked along the highway. 🙁 @AgDayTV @ClintonReports @ReutersAg @snodgrss

@CloudEscolar Exactly. Luckily we still have a few of those guys around.

@SteveAdamsSoil The armadillos just do this naturally

The before and after I'm aiming for.

@TornadoNate It is hard to engineer a better system than this, but you can approximate it on a small scale with the right animals and some properly timed mechanical intervention.

American agriculture traded livestock for machines and in the long run that's gonna end up a pretty fucking bad deal.

@IndustrialRe4m What's your soil like? Northern IN usually has pretty good soil.

Pivoting my entrepreneurial ambitions to vertically integrating our food production.

@wrathofgnon I'm racing to get the alternative to market. Hand tools first, so anyone can do it anywhere. Then I'll get back to the mechanized versions. But there is a method to reverse all this. Pardon the AI infographic, but it is pretty good.

"70% of soils in Europe are contaminated with pesticides. A Europe-wide study co-led by researchers of the University of Zurich now shows that their effects on soil life are substantial, as pesticides suppress various beneficial soil organisms." news.uzh.ch/en/articles/me…

@youwillmakemaps Incredible work.

How detailed is your art? I designed this backlit map of Alaska at 3x4 ft, commissioned two dozen tree illustrations, shrunk it to 12x18", and printed it onto 3,600 DPI film. It has fine lines down to 150 microns.

@CloudEscolar @EV_Trapper @sendcutsend They don't do laser etching. I will use them for the blanks, then use 3D printed jigs to laser etch them. Lasers set up for cutting aren't set up for etching. I use them or other projects (my soil building tools and Crab Clips). Love @sendcutsend

@SteveAdamsSoil @EV_Trapper Why not @sendcutsend it?

Never underestimate 3D printing as a means of production. Of course I want to use injection molding, but the dies are too expensive.

@strong_sistas Will you irrigate it?

Assembled my potato tower this evening 🥔

@BlueCollarInvr Very nice. Hope the AC works.

If everything checks out Back Forty Tree Solutions is getting a new Tow Pig tonight. 1999 F550, 7.3L Powerstroke with a 5 speed manual. Wish me luck.

@rfhirschfeld Aeolian bedforms in the fields can't be good. I've seen sand dunes forming in cotton fields in the panhandle before. Very Pleistocene.

You know it’s cooking when the soil looks like timelapse clouds!

Turning my neighbors dead soil lawn into shortgrass prairie. Most of the animals are gone, so I'm using tools to replace their function. Eventually they will all return.

@CooperZurad amazing

It's been a long time and a lot of work

@ridgelinepath You need the solar panels, to power the data center, that analyzes the satellite photos, to make sure you didn't put up a shed without proper permitting and fees. They will probably be counting your chickens pretty soon.

It my sense that alot of Americans don't know about Adirondack Park in NY. It's a gem. NY is retarded even with land outside of ADK Park. Childhood friends ran into ridiculous wetland regulation in thier own dang backyard. It wasn't a wetland. Restricted from children building homes on the property. That solar companies are getting a free pass and it is insane on top of the insanity of treating solar panels as something that should be centralized rather than decentralized on homes if at all.

Sounds like a nice place! Building soil in the high desert is always more challenging! Good luck, I'm all in on biomass legumes for soil. I certainly think if a tool can penetrate the soil, getting compost below the surface would go a long way, since it will be better protected from the baking sun. Your compost is going to be a precious resource, so getting a good fraction of it below the soil surface will preserve it longer.

Excellent. I have around 2.5 acres of alluvial soil, VERY low nitrogen, low to no organic matter. Appears to be virgin or very long fallow. Arizona high desert. Planting a cover of tepary beans soon and am working on getting compost going. We just moved in Jan. My goats and soon to be added rabbits will help too! Ducks & chickens come in fall, I hope.

Can anyone else relate to these 3 common problems with metal raised beds? I can! credit: theplanttechie