Why is it important to have soil in an organic farm? What is the role of a compost pile and decomposes in the cycling of materials in the garden?
(i do not understand it at all lol)
its not a joke lol, i just didnt understand the question
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If this question is not a joke, you need to look up the definition of soil. It’s kind of important for any farm, organic or otherwise.
Compost is a mix of old leaves, grass, plant parts and stuff like that, which decomposes in a pile. After it decomposes, it is full of nutrients for plants. Do the math.
Compost is a mix of old leaves, grass, plant parts , which decomposes in a pile. After it decomposes, it is full of nutrients for plants.
It might be a better question in asking Why is it important to build soil in an organic farm?
First, if I understand your question correctly, is that at the very basis, soil is what supplies the nutrients, keeps moisture and houses the plant or determines on how well or how poorly your crops, pasture, woodland, livestock or watersheds (such as a farm pond) do.
Inconventional farming with chemicals, many of the nutrients are lost out of the soil and are not replaced even with the synthetic fertilizers. By using compost, manure etc, many of these valuable nutrients are replaced.
Soil if not cared for, can erode due to winds (such as during the 1930’s) or wash away due to flooding. A good movie to look up to inform you more about soil and how it affects us as a whole, is the movie Dirt, I HIGHLY recommend it. Mother Nature usually takes care of soil on her own, but with man’s intervention, so much of the worlds soil has been destroyed.
Some areas of North America have 2-60 feet of good topsoil for growing crops in, and other areas take thousands of years just to produce 1/2 of topsoil. Many areas are poor in nutrients to the soil as well.
Building the soil either helps nature along in producing topsoil, or helps replace what has been damaged. Composting is one way to do this.
Composting takes ‘waste’, such as leaves, unused food, grass, twigs and other things that Nature would naturally break down and put into a ’speed up process’ to build this valuable rich soil. Also vegetation in the garden takes up nutrients from the soil and in composting the unwanted parts of the vegetation (such as carrot tops after the carrot has been harvested), returns the nutrients to the soil that is inside the foliage, so the nutrients are not lost, but returned. .
