Day 10 - Crop Rotation
Bloom - Week 2 of the 21-day Holistic Garden Planning Series
Today’s topic is one that I used to think only applied to commercial farmers or those with large production gardens. As I learned more about soil health and switched my focus to more natural methods of growing food, crop rotation kept coming up.
The charts in books, especially in The New Organic Grower by Eliot Coleman1, were helpful but felt way over my head. I’m organized and like to approach the garden from an analytical place as much as I do with my bare feet, but I’m not quite ready to be implementing a 5 year crop rotation plan. So I ignored it.
Then I realized that I could implement crop rotation at a different scale and still get the same benefits as the more technical references I was trying to emulate.
Are you noticing a theme? The more I tried to copy, the less successful I was. Success came from being flexible and honoring the essence of these techniques but applying them in my own way.