Welcome to Build Amazing Soil
6 min Soil Is Not a Thing
8 min The 3 Soil Health Principles
9 min Soil Food Web Basics
12 min Nutrients, Minerals, and Biology
10 min Feed Your Soil, Not Your Plants
10 minBuild Amazing Soil
A practical beginner course for building living soil and growing better food with less work.
You want to grow beautiful vegetables without constantly worrying about pests or nutrient deficiencies.
No matter what you do, your veggies are slow growing or attacked by bugs, or just not working how you want.
You want to understand how to use the latest soil science to grow better vegetables (without a science degree).
Learn the soil-first framework behind Solarity Acres: understand soil as a living process, build compost systems, stop tilling, use cover crops, plant for abundance, and treat your garden like an ecosystem that gets easier to manage every season.
Living soil foundations
Understand the soil food web, nutrient cycling, soil structure, organic matter, and how soil works so you can grow better veggies with less work.
No-till transitions
You'll learn why tilling (or even just digging) your garden is hurting your plants AND creating more weeds. You'll learn how to stop tilling today.
Compost and cover crops
You'll learn why cover crops are the single cheapest way to build healthy soil, and how to start using them on ANY scale.
Understand soil as a living process instead of an inert growing medium.
Explain the basics of the soil food web and why biology drives fertility.
Choose a composting method that fits your space, time, and materials.
Transition a garden away from tilling without creating extra work.
Select and manage cover crops for fertility, soil protection, and weed suppression.
Plan a more abundant garden by planting extra and working with natural losses.
Use basic ecosystem and permaculture thinking to design a lower-maintenance garden.
44 lessons7 modules45 lessons
Why Compost Matters
8 min Not All Compost Is Equal
9 min Thermophilic Compost
12 min Chop & Drop
8 min Bokashi Composting
8 min Johnson-Su Bioreactor
10 min Leaf Mold
7 min Hügelkultur
10 min Trench Composting
7 min Fungal Compost
9 min Vermicompost
9 min Choose Your Compost System
10 min Why Tilling Creates Problems
9 min Soil Structure and Aggregation
10 min The Weed Seed Bank
8 min How to Transition to No-Till
12 min Starting New No-Till Beds
12 min Managing Weeds Without Tilling
11 min Cover Crops Introduction
8 min What Cover Crops Do
10 min How to Select Cover Crops
12 min When to Plant Cover Crops
10 min How to Terminate Cover Crops
11 min Cover Crops in Small Spaces
8 min Why Plant Extra
8 min Choose What to Grow
10 min Plan for Abundance
11 min Succession Planting Basics
10 min Plants for People, Soil, and Wildlife
9 min Ecosystem Thinking for Gardeners
10 min Permaculture Zones Overview
11 min Boundaries, Edges, and Microclimates
12 min Polycultures and Plant Relationships
10 min Designing for Water and Fertility
11 min Observe Before You Intervene
8 min Keep a Garden Journal
8 min Diagnose Before Buying Products
9 min Learn From Farmers and Gardeners
8 min Your Next-Season Soil Plan
12 minWhat's included
Private community access
Ask Seb questions directly in the private course community.
Learn the soil-first system I use at Solarity Acres.
I built this course to turn the ideas I share in short videos into a practical learning path. You will learn how I think about soil, compost, plants, weeds, and garden design as one connected living system.
Yes. The course starts with the foundations of living soil, then builds toward composting, no-till, cover crops, planting strategy, and ecosystem design.
No. The principles work in backyard beds, raised beds, small spaces, and larger gardens. You can scale the practices to the space you have.
No. The course focuses on building the conditions that make fertility happen: biology, cover, organic matter, roots, compost, water, and observation.
The current course includes 44 lessons across living soil, composting, no-till, cover crops, planting extra, ecosystem thinking, and ongoing observation.
A practical beginner course for building living soil and growing better food with less work.