1.Negative Carbon Footprint

Strategic Gardening sequesters carbon dioxide while conventional agriculture releases CO2.

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2.3-Season Production

Grow 3-4 crops per year on the same space, 1 in 4 years fallow

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3.Maximum Garden ROI

Return should be in nutritional or dollar value. Inputs are labor, capital and growing time

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4.No tillage, No mechanization

Once the raised bed is built, fertility is based on a closed system, all fertility should come from local inputs

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5.Organic and Sustainable

Manage potential pests by physical barriers, beneficial insects and organic sprays

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6.Mixed planting by crop and height above and below soil surface. 

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7.Worm Composting

Worm composting is the most efficient way to effectively process plant material to create a nutrient-rich soil amendment.

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8.Pollinator plants interspersed throughout garden.

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9.Mulching

Soil surface is constantly covered either by row cover or organic mulches.

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10.Managed Soil Biome

Soil mycorrhiza is added as are beneficial soil bacteria via compost tea

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