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59degrees Life Support for Plants. Compost Mentis for Man. Best plant-soil care practices for all. 1. Mission-driven

2. Regeneration trumps me-generation.**

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Empowering plants, humans, and microbes.

3. Science-backed real-world applications.

4. Top-notch education and products.

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A week on Gotland: compost workshops, field visits, apple pressing, and some fishing on my time off.Gotland carries a de...
19/10/2026

A week on Gotland: compost workshops, field visits, apple pressing, and some fishing on my time off.
Gotland carries a deep legacy of perseverance, resilience and belonging. It has a culture unlike anything else I’ve experienced in Sweden, shaped by the limits of the Baltic Sea and built on limestone.
One of the beautiful things about this work is getting to know different landscapes, and seeing how each one responds to its own mix of species and way of being managed. Working out how each soil system works takes curiosity and a patient, observant eye.
I was glad to be invited back, and even happier to see so many of the methods I’d recommended in use, and working really well. On this island the line between ownership and stewardship barely holds. Every decision we make about land assumes we are looking after it for what comes next, and I feel that more strongly on Gotland than anywhere else.
Next year we’re running a two-day immersive workshop on scaling compost production. Sign up to our newsletter to hear first.

The feedback of the soil accepting the shovel tells you in a millisecond if the plan has worked or not. Then comes the s...
01/10/2026

The feedback of the soil accepting the shovel tells you in a millisecond if the plan has worked or not. Then comes the smell, the roots, the structure, the colour and the worms.

We put these plants to work in July, 8 weeks later than I would have liked.

90 days is all it took for these heaviest of heavy clays to open up and accept that they could never be healthy by themselves.

I cut my teeth in these soils (>65%) at this latitude (59d), with this little rain (

Human behaviour is predictably predictable. When we don’t understand something we either1. Ignore it and hope it changes...
14/09/2026

Human behaviour is predictably predictable. When we don’t understand something we either
1. Ignore it and hope it changes for the better
2. Intervene and hope we get lucky
3. Blame it on something (or someone) else
Nowhere is this more predictable than in soil. The black box, as I like to call it. Across the board, soil science has been occupied — to great commercial success — by academics selling a chemical solution to a biological problem.
I’ve spent the last 15 years reading fluffy words: “soil health,” “living soil,” “regenerative,” “biodiversity-friendly.” Words that mean everything and therefore nothing. Words you can print on a bag, tick on a tender, or drop into a planting plan without a single microbe being consulted.
I prefer language that offers management scenarios we can act on. To that end, building soil literacy around soil function has been tremendously beneficial — to me, to the plants I work with, to the soils that feed them, and to the clients we do this work alongside.
Progress in soil building is slow at the best of times. But it stops entirely when we can’t name the problem.

Here are a few shots of a soil function assessment we carry out to determine where a soil is bottlenecked.

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You know what they say, if it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well. I decided a long time ago I only wanted to make the ...
21/06/2026

You know what they say, if it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well.

I decided a long time ago I only wanted to make the finest possible soil based products. And setting the bar this high takes a level of commitment and dedication that gets you questioning why you do this to yourself.

As it happens, Stockholm city got the message that in the middle of nowhere, I was sweating away in my workshop looking to make the ultimate tree planting product.

Now, After 15 months in the soil, I think it’s safe to say they are very happy with their investment.

Cheers to that!

We are but a handful of days, a fraction of a tilt towards our star before the cycle of photosynthesis begins once again...
21/04/2026

We are but a handful of days, a fraction of a tilt towards our star before the cycle of photosynthesis begins once again here at 59 degrees North.

The soils have been prepped, the spring seeds going down, the first foliar feed of the winter-sown crops already applied.

With the winter cycle of stillness giving way to growth and renewal, we have the privilege of stepping back into relationship with the living systems that sustain us.

Farming is such a profoundly beautiful craft. Quiet work — rebuilding structure, reawakening biology, restoring function layer by layer.

Every season begins long before the first green shoot breaks the surface. It begins in the unseen — in aggregates forming, in microbes stirring, in the slow return of energy flow through soil.

And now, as light returns, so does momentum of the microbe, plant and animal.

What is soil really trying to do?I used to ask that all the time.When I finally saw how soil grows like an organism—alwa...
06/04/2026

What is soil really trying to do?

I used to ask that all the time.

When I finally saw how soil grows like an organism—always reaching for balance—it changed everything.
Most land managers I meet are battling a fog of problems: weeds, poor structure, pH swings.

But underneath those variables are a few simple bottlenecks in the soil-building process.
Left alone, soil finds its own order—structure first, life next, chemistry last.

If we can learn that rhythm, we can stop fixing and start supporting what soil wants to become.
Productivity isn’t forced.

It’s nurtured—the way you’d care for something alive.
Soil is the master substrate.

The quiet giver of life beneath our feet.

The process of soil repair demands that we understand the bottleneck. Looking at soil through the lea of function , an ...
29/03/2026

The process of soil repair demands that we understand the bottleneck.

Looking at soil through the lea of function , an integrated composition of biology, creating conditions of life’s proliferation, we can move into synergistic states of management.

When we’re antagonised by structural issues, pH imbalances and underperforming biological communities we need to understand where to start.

That job always starts with the establishment of the “soil crumb”, and managing our soils in a way which enhances its stability.

The common rule of soil care; look after your soil crumb, and the biology will take care of the rest.

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