[heartwood]

Yesterday, I prepared a couple beds for spring, pulled out the unproductive raspberries, dug a trench for fallen branches (hugelkultur, German for heap gardening) and covered with soil, sowed with winter rye, my first cover crop.

Dog dug herself a nest in the raised bed, didn’t help me with my digging. I wonder if you can train them.

Also threatened all other household members of consequences if they compact my soil.

Has anyone here used a broadfork?
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[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Has anyone here used a broadfork?”

I know it is a favorite tool of Elliot Coleman and wife Barbara Damrosh. (All of their books are great, BTW.)

Hobby Farms says:

https://www.hobbyfarms.com/broadfork-farm-uses-ways/

[Pollard]

Same channel, more videos, in this case, “flip” as in flipping a bed to a new crop which pretty much always entails using a broadfork. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLhu5JoRWPgEGDoUFfQHTPQ/search?query=flip

This one’s pretty good as far as having a system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qrf4_weSYU

Different broadfork design; https://youtu.be/YdH3rhiGIl8?t=192

[numberonepal]

Has anyone here used a broadfork?

David the Good swears by them for large beds, and he hates too many specialty tools. I use a spade fork since I have small beds. The broadfork looks like the best tool to dig up/till soil to start a new bed with no time for tarp and too big for mulch.