Last spring, I tried converting a quarter of my vegetable plot to no-till farming, and the soil texture seemed better by fall, but my yields dropped by nearly 15% compared to my tilled section. The slugs loved the undisturbed mulch, and I ended up handpicking them off my lettuce every morning—it was a mess. I've read studies showing no-till can boost organic matter over time, but most of that research comes from large grain farms in the Midwest, not small diversified vegetable operations like mine. Could no-till actually work on a small-scale veggie farm, or is it just not worth the pest pressure and yield losses we get around here?