Every place drops material. Here in South Florida it's palm fronds, leaf litter, grass, chips.
Where you are it's something else.
Most of it gets bagged and hauled off, and then the same yard buys mulch by the cubic foot.
Agrinauts take the bags. Thousands of them — off curbs, from crews glad not to haul it. Right now I've got two chip drops on the ground. That's the method: when material shows up, take it. More than you think you need. Then nothing for a while, and that's fine.
That's how soil gets built. Not with a pile in the corner. Not with a product. With volume, on the ground, in contact with the earth.
Inside:
Reading water before you plant anything
Imprinting, mulching, sweldering — the sequence
What to do with more material than you can use
The method working in real time on Florida sand, so you can work it out on yours
I'm Erika. HJ Kuntry Carter showed me how to do this in Tallahassee. I've been doing it all over since. He showed me, I'm showing you, you'll do it your way.