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.
