What We Learned

What I learned from this project is that there are many organisms in soil, some can be good for the soil and some can be bad. A natural way to keep a healthy diversity of organism is through diversity of crops or plants grown. It creates diverse habitats for different predatory organism to keep other organisms in check therefore maintaining balance. I also didn't know that chicken contributed so much to organic farming through eating insects and pest. They also help fertilized the soil as well as aerating the soil by scratching around which increases pores and allows more water and air to be stored by the soil. The organic farmer also rotate crops in order to put more nitrogen into the soil for example growing legumes then compost it on top of the soil to put back nitrogen in the soil.