Sheet Mulching
Sheet Mulching
Healthy soil is built from the top down, not by burying it under plastic or fabric. Sheet mulching replaces landscape fabric with layers of cardboard and organic material that suppress weeds while feeding the soil below. Cardboard blocks light but still allows water, air, fungi, and worms to move freely. Over time, it decomposes into carbon-rich organic matter, improving soil rather than isolating it. Landscape fabric may look tidy at first, but it fragments, resurfaces, and starves soil of life.
Sheet mulching works because it mimics how nature heals disturbed ground - patiently, biologically, and without plastic.