Johnny Appleseed Organic is a sustainable living development near Folkston, GA, where they are pioneering the next step in the organic food revolution. Combining best practices from permaculture, syntropic planting and regenerative agriculture, they are creating a new way to grow great-tasting, healthy produce while simultaneously improving the environment.Learn more about Johnny Appleseed Organic.

In this installment, Joshua Andersen of Johnny Appleseed Organic demonstrates power-composting the farm's hearty Coker oat grass with a flail mower. The benefit of this method is that it breaks down the material — including tougher varieties of cover crops — into very fine pieces, aiding the decomposition process and speeding up the release of carbon into the underlying soil. Access to this series as well as all MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR ONLINE courses are available exclusively with an All-Access subscription for as little as $2. 99/month. (Note: If you've registered for the All-Access bundle, you now have access to this course! ) Learn more and register now!About Johnny Appleseed OrganicJohnny Appleseed Organic is a sustainable living development near Folkston, GA, where they are pioneering the next step in the organic food revolution. Combining best practices from permaculture, syntropic planting and regenerative agriculture, they are creating a new way to grow great-tasting, healthy produce while simultaneously improving the environment.Learn more about Johnny Appleseed Organic.

Joshua Anderson of Johnny Appleseed Organic prepares a future Mayhaw Grove by digging mini-swales , or foot-long deep channels, along contour lines of the pre-surveyed landscape. The channels are used to spread, sink, and store water for subsequent use. He uses the subsoiler attachment on his BCS two-wheel tractor.

In this installment, Joshua uses the power ridger attachment on the BCS two-wheel tractor to re-bed the paths in between crop rows, cleaning them up, widening them, and deepening them. He also uses the subsoiler attachment to develop concave beds to drive water to deeper subsoils more quickly and efficiently.