Back to Earth Works

05/12/2026

Want flowers that bloom brighter and last longer? 🌼🌹

It's not the fertilizer. It's the soil.

Spray our Regenerative Gardening Kit on your flower beds, hanging baskets, and perennial borders — and watch the color deepen, the blooms multiply, and the plants come back even stronger next year.

One kit. Every flower in your yard. A whole season of showing off. 💚

05/10/2026

Happy Mother's Day. 🌷

To every mom who's ever knelt in the dirt, pulled a w**d, watered a sprout, or handed someone a tomato still warm from the vine — thank you. You're the reason so many of us know how to grow.

We hope today is slow, sunny, and full of everything blooming. 💚

05/03/2026

A reminder for your Sunday: 🌿

You are not just growing plants. You're growing nutrients. You're growing soil. You're growing a cleaner little corner of the world, one spray at a time.

Happy Sunday, friends.

05/02/2026

Happy 1st weekend of May. 🌷

The unofficial kickoff of real gardening season. If you haven't prepped your soil yet — good news: it's not too late to completely change how this year's garden turns out.

One sprayer. One funnel. A few minutes per week. A whole season of bigger, healthier, more nutrient-dense harvests.

Make May the month your garden finally hits different. 🌱

05/01/2026

Huge shoutout to Big Lou’s Bargains for this awesome feature! 🌱 We are so incredibly grateful for local partners who share our mission of bringing better, healthier soil to everyone’s gardens and landscapes. If you're local to the Auburn area, make sure to look for us in-store at Big Lou's and grab your Regenerative Gardening Kit today! Let's get growing! 🌍✨

🌱 BIG LOU’S EXCLUSIVE 🌱

Ready to take your garden to the next level? 👀
The Back To Earth Works Regenerative Gardening Kit has EVERYTHING you need to grow stronger, healthier plants all season long — the natural way 🌿

✔️ Builds rich, living soil
✔️ Boosts root growth & plant strength
✔️ Improves water retention & nutrient balance
✔️ Safe for pets, people & the planet

Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or just getting started… this kit makes it EASY 💪

🔥 ONLY $75 — and ONLY at Big Lou’s! 🔥

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307 Touring Dr., Auburn, IN
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04/23/2026

Happy Earth Day. 🌎

Today is the perfect reminder that the healthiest gardens don't come from chemicals — they come from living, thriving soil. Our Regenerative Gardening Kit was built for exactly that. One 68 oz sprayer. One funnel. A whole season of more abundant, more nutrient-dense harvests.

Use it on your raised beds, your new fruit trees, your flower borders, even your indoor herbs. Wherever you spray, you're feeding the microbes that make everything grow better.

Happy planting, friends. 🌱

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03/15/2026

Over 1.5 million of you saw clover lawn. We had hundreds of comments and a ton of questions. Brad is back to answer them!

03/14/2026

When grass starts thinning or dying in patches, the real problem is usually below the surface. Compacted soil and weak biology make it hard for roots to grow and for nutrients to cycle properly.

First I aerate the lawn. Aeration pulls small plugs of soil out of the ground and leaves holes behind. These holes relieve compaction and allow air, water, and roots to move deeper into the soil. Grass roots need oxygen just like we do. When soil becomes compacted, the biology that supports plants struggles too. Ideally, I would also add some masonry sand or even mix compost into these holes to improve structure and drainage.

After aerating, I spray our regenerative gardening kit directly into the holes. This step matters because the holes act like pathways that carry beneficial biology deeper into the root zone where it can start rebuilding the soil system.

Our kit introduces a diverse group of beneficial microorganisms. Bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and beneficial nematodes all play roles in the soil food web. These organisms break down organic matter, cycle nutrients, and convert minerals into forms plants can absorb. When this system is active, grass roots grow stronger and the lawn becomes more resilient.

The biochar in Soil Sanctuary also helps. Biochar acts as a long term habitat for microbes. It holds water and nutrients while giving microorganisms a place to live and multiply. Over time this helps rebuild soil structure.

Green Guardian feeds the entire system. It provides food for the microbes so the biology in the kit can establish and thrive. As microbial populations increase, nutrient cycling improves and the grass can start recovering naturally. Stronger roots lead to thicker turf, better water retention, and fewer weak spots where w**ds can take hold.

The goal is not to force growth with synthetic salt based fertilizers. The goal is to rebuild the living system in the soil so the grass can support itself again.

Healthy soil grows healthy grass.

03/10/2026

Most people think compost is just fertilizer. It really isn’t.

Compost is biology.

So let’s break this system down for a second.

Leaves, food scraps, and plant material start decomposing. That does not happen on its own. Microbes move in and begin breaking everything down. Bacteria start consuming the simple sugars and proteins first. Fungi move in and break down tougher materials like cellulose and lignin from stems and leaves. As they eat and digest that material, it gets smaller and smaller.

During that process those microbes release enzymes and organic acids. Those compounds chemically break apart the plant material. What used to be a solid leaf or stem slowly gets dissolved into smaller organic compounds and nutrients.

As that breakdown happens, other ‘predatory’ organisms move in. Protozoa and nematodes start feeding on the bacteria and fungi. When they eat them, they release excess nutrients back into the soil in plant available forms. Nitrogen, phosphorus, micronutrients. That cycling is what starts turning dead organic matter into something plants can actually use.

So leaves, food scraps, and plant material decompose, and as they do they become loaded with microbes. Bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes. That whole community is what makes your soil work.

Plants are not just pulling nutrients out of dirt like a sponge. They run a trade system underground. Essentially giving microbiology sugars in exchange for plant available nutrients.

Roots release sugars into the soil. Those sugars feed the microbes living around the root zone. In return those microbes unlock nutrients the plant cannot access on its own. They break minerals down, cycle nutrients, and move them back to the plant.

So when you add compost, what you are really doing is introducing that biological engine into your soil.

The real goal is getting the soil food web running again so the system starts working on its own. Once that happens nutrients begin cycling naturally, soil holds water better, and plants grow stronger because they have biology supporting them.

At that point you are not really feeding plants anymore. The soil is.

That is also why two gardens can use the same fertilizer but get completely different results. One has an active biological system and the other one doesn’t.

02/25/2026

Salmon in the Pacific Northwest literally fertilize the forest.

They live in the ocean, swim upstream to spawn, then die. Bears drag them into the woods. The bodies break down. All those ocean nutrients move into the soil. Nitrogen, amino acids, trace minerals.

Scientists have found marine nitrogen in tree rings. The ocean feeds the forest.

That is the same principle behind fish hydrolysate.

Our Green Guardian is enzymatically digested fish. It is not a synthetic salt fertilizer. It feeds microbes first. The soil biology breaks it down and cycles nutrients into your plants.

Life feeds life.

We are mimicking what nature has already been doing for thousands of years.