How 1930s Gardeners Grew Twice The Food For $2... The Lost Soil Secret They Never Taught You

There is a brown paper sack sitting on a shelf in an old Ohio shed. Inside it is two dollars of small, hard seed. A man scattered a handful of it across a tired garden bed last fall. He did not buy a single bag of fertilizer. He did not haul in a load of anything. And come summer, that one bed grew so heavy with beans and tomatoes that he gave half of it away. Down the road, his neighbor spent sixty dollars on bags and bottles. Her plants came up thin and yellow. She will buy more next spring. And the spring after that. The men who sell you fertilizer do not want that seed in your shed. A garden that feeds its own soil does not come back to the store. They sell you a bag that feeds the plant and starves the ground. Every year the soil gets poorer. Every year you buy more. They are counting on you never learning the soil can feed itself for almost nothing. My name is Wendell Mercer. I was raised by people who never called a company for anything. They grew most of what they ate, on ground that got richer every single year. I have not bought a bag of fertilizer in forty years. Not one. And today I am going to show you exactly how it is done, and why it still works, on any patch of dirt you have got.