What is Living Soil?

Living soil is a cultivation method centered on the microbial life inside the soil. The planting material, usually compost, is alive with biotic microorganisms, including worms and their castings, protozoa, healthy bacteria, amoebas and kelp extract.  Effectively an ecosystem of it's own, living soil contains inorganic material that makes up the structure, organic matter and insects, centipedes, worms, nematodes, microbes, fungi and bacteria that feed on that organic matter. Living soil requires less water, fewer additional nutrients to achieve optimal mineral content and reduces waste.

A cultivator can avoid expensive bottled nutrients by creating a complex and robust soil food web, letting the microbes eat and digest organic compounds to create natural, bioavailable fertilizers.

Over time, yields will compare to those achieved with synthetic nutrients and will lead to higher terpene, cannabanoid and resin content.

All soil consists of several components: mineral content like sand, silt and clay; organic matter like plant material in various stages of decomposition; organisms like animals, insects, bacteria and fungi; macronutrients like hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, carbon, calcium, magenesium and sulfur; and micronutrients like boron, chlorine, manganese, iron, zinc, copper, molybdenum, nickel, sodium, cobalt and silicon.