In my unending quest for self-sufficiency and living with a light footprint, I have tracked down soil blockers from Ladbrooke Soil Blocking via Johnny’s Selected Seeds in the US.
I learned about soil blockers while volunteering for my friends Paul & Heather on Manitoulin Island last summer. They run a CSA (Community Sponsored Agriculture) organic garden and rely on these tools to create soil blocks to start all of their plants. I have been using compressed peat pellets for the last few years which work great and are neat and tidy but somewhat expensive ($0.13CDN/each). Peat also has to be mined, transported, made into pellets, transported again to the garden centre and once again to the garden. The soil blockers involve a little more manual labour but of the good kind that gets dirt under one’s finger nails.
Hi Justin!
Do you know of a Canadian source for soil blockers? I just got a job as market gardener for Hope Farm, a Christian ministry for people in recovery and am looking for larger multi block models for larger scale production!
No source in Canada that I’m aware of. Johnny’s is probably the closest.