“People get the idea that they’re going to be ‘natural,’ and never use fertilizer or manure or anything.
“The soil needs to be fed,” Kemper says. “People get the idea that they’re going to be ‘natural,’ and never use fertilizer or manure or anything. They’ll end up tapping out the nutrients of the soil and then nothing will grow. You always need to think of your soil as the crop itself: you have to keep feeding it because it’s alive.”