When we started the farm, I thought we had to use landscape fabric. It's what almost every small market farmer and flower grower does, after all, and we had bindweed, hoary cress, dandelion, invasive grasses and more. But after learning about how much microplastic is leached from plastics in the garden, we immediately removed it and have been incorporating these regenerative practices for the last 5 seasons--and the last 3 years we've been able to skip fertilizers completely.

That being said, sometimes we need a bit of a boost with an added inoculant (use your own homemade compost if you can but if not a purchased myco/root inoculant like we use in this video will also do), organic matter for deep mulching for weed prevention and nurturing the soil food web, and cover crops whenever possible.

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