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Back to Eden relies on fungal decomposition as that's the only thing that can decompose lignins in the wood chip to provide plant available nutrients.
Why till unless there's a soil pan situation where nothing (like water, air, beneficial microbes, worms, invertebrates) can move up or down?
If tilled, the process destroys the hypha and many of the other beneficial microbes such as bacteria, nematodes, arthropods, protozoa and invertebrates. This sets back your soil food web before it can go forward.
Assuming no soil panning I would just build up without tilling and all those good things will naturally migrate into the upper layers without having to recover first.
I'd probably introduce a little charcoal into the top of the added compost (crushed to roughly a max size of 10mm) to create a beneficial microbe battery as that will help boost the decomposition of the wood chip. The charcoal would benefit from being pre-soaked in compost tea containing beneficial microbes to boost the decomposition but not essential as they'll migrate there.
Back to Eden relies on fungal decomposition as that's the only thing that can decompose lignins in the wood chip to provide plant available nutrients.
Why till unless there's a soil pan situation where nothing (like water, air, beneficial microbes, worms, invertebrates) can move up or down?
If tilled, the process destroys the hypha and many of the other beneficial microbes such as bacteria, nematodes, arthropods, protozoa and invertebrates. This sets back your soil food web before it can go forward.
Assuming no soil panning I would just build up without tilling and all those good things will naturally migrate into the upper layers without having to recover first.
I'd probably introduce a little charcoal into the top of the added compost (crushed to roughly a max size of 10mm) to create a beneficial microbe battery as that will help boost the decomposition of the wood chip. The charcoal would benefit from being pre-soaked in compost tea containing beneficial microbes to boost the decomposition but not essential as they'll migrate there.