The Soil Underground

  • Putting Your Garden to Bed

    Have you ever heard of the term, “putting your garden to bed”?  This simply means preparing your growing space for the winter or off-season so it i...
  • Fall Planting

    Better Late than Never...Fall Planting in Zone 5 In case you’ve been super busy this summer and haven’t had the chance to get your garden going, t...
  • Time to Debate The Meaning of Infrastructure

    Climate change and Covid have changed many things, including, what constitutes infrastructure. As the nation debates how to pivot from pandemic to ...
  • Co-Founder Interviewed on CLE Foodcast

    One of our co-founders, Daniel Brown, was recently interviewed on the CLE Foodcast to discuss the work here at Tilth and the importance of the work...
  • Taking a Cue from Re-use Brilliance in the Gardens of Cleveland’s AsiaTown

    Since the 1860’s, immigrants from China, Vietnam and Korea have made their homes in Midtown Cleveland, blessing our region with, among other things...
  • The Soil Underground

  • Succession Planting in your Garden

    For a lot of us the gardening season starts and ends Memorial Day Weekend.  By that point in the season, we have prepped our planting area, purchas...
  • Unpacking the good: Community Supported Agriculture

    Anna Kiss Mauser-Martinez sees her work leading City Fresh, the community supported agriculture (CSA) program that emerged in the early 2000s from ...
  • Setting Your Garden Up For Success

    I’ve been a professional grower for over a decade and see most gardening projects go to the dogs by August of each year.  Typically these gardening...
  • Raise Your Garden Game

    Michael Bartunek has built a few raised beds in his career, working his way up from an apprentice at a Milwaukee urban farm to Senior Farm Manager ...
  • Look Closely At Compost

    Nathan Rutz, our Director of Soil, is brimming with know-how when it comes to questions like, how is compost made? He is intimately aware of what g...
  • Seed Starting Workshop: A Recap

    Emily Pek, founder of Frayed Knot Farm, teamed up with Claire Bruch from Tilth Soil, and Liani Rivera from Rust Belt Riders, to share some seriousl...