Sky Valley Organic Farm

02/17/2025

I'm with the squirrels on this one, just say NO to GMO!

This was a project my son did while getting his degree in Sustainable Agriculture in 2005 at Central Carolina Community College in Pittsboro, NC. It pretty much says all we need to know about GMO products. Even the squirrels wouldn’t eat it. They knew there was something wrong with it.
By: Russell Turner

02/04/2025

Casting Call... Now's the time to reserve your worm castings before the spring rush, we have limited supplies. Pictured is 1 quart of pure microbiology goodness produced by Red Riggers chopping down on organic matter with ingenious microbes. This biology will thrive and produce great results in this region. Also available 1 gallon bag sizes for current market prices. We don't bag ours in plastics that just reduces the live microbial activity as they do dormant of die without oxygen, thus a environment friendly burlap bags.

01/15/2025

I will be leading this workshop at Peaceful Prairie Nursery, Inc. Sign up asap so I can ensure we have enough vermicompost to share with everyone.

12/31/2024

Wishing Everyone a Happy New Year may all your dreams come to fruition!

11/27/2024

Hey everyone, it has been a busy spring and summer, having great results in the field improving the yield and reducing the pest pressure with extracts applied to a lucerne field for a local rancher.

Got some exciting news as we are working with a local nursery on a project to produce some wonderful compost teaming with life for gardeners looking for indigenous balanced microorganisms to feed and protect your plants. More to come on this.

In addition, working on putting together a worm compost workshop, for those interested in attending come February stay tuned.

Okay so to address this latest organism for review, this is a nematode but just not any normal root feeder which are not good, but this is known as a switcher it will feed off of fungus until there is no fungus and use the stylet with miniature basal k***s to attack plant roots. This is something you do not want me to find in your soil during my assessment of your soil. Fortunately, I know how to correct this and restore the right microorganisms back into your soil.

05/01/2024

Take a look a "Claws" This micro chelicerate arthropod with its four limbs. This is what a "soil mite" (Acari) looks like at 400x, magnification. This micro arthropod is part of the soil food web and eats other microorganisms, not plants and releases excess nutrients from eating them back into the soil as soluble inorganic nutrients your plants can uptake into its roots. Two other items to note is the brown and black cylinder next to it which is a fungal spore and over in the bottom right corner is a testate ameboma.

04/27/2024

Soil Degradation has social and economical consequences. Conventional farming and gardening utilizing chemicals is not only destroying the very microorganisms that can unlock nutrients locked up in the sand, silt and clay to grow nutritious foods but is also contributing not just to the destruction of ecosystems down stream of chemical runoff but also finding their way into your gut biome making us a sick and dying nation. Restore health and life back to your farm or garden soils with biocomplete soil amendments that have the full spectrum of beneficial microbes that will unlock the nutrients in your soil, increase yields reduce cost and provide more complete nutrition for your body and the bodies of those you care about. Contact us today the right solution to growing.

04/03/2024

It is exciting to see a different color basidiomycete, this one made an impression on me. Can you identify all the morphological features that indicate a beneficial fungus? This is something you certainly want a good deal of in your soil. I count five features how many do you see?