• Passions and Pastimes

    Hugelkultur, Nutrient Rich Environment For A Raised Garden Bed

    This post is about how we used the Huglekultur method to fill our raised garden beds. Hugelkultur is an inexpensive, easy and nutrient rich way to fill your garden beds. It is essentially building a mound of logs, sticks, branches, leaves, compost, and other organic matter for your soil base. These things in the bottom of the bed decompose over time creating nutrient rich soil. We found through much research this seemed like the logical way to go due to the raw materials available to us from our new houses property. Not only were we trying to save money on the costs of filling the beds, we also wanted to…