You can reduce soil erosion by:
• Maintaining a healthy, perennial plant cover.
• Mulching
• Planting a cover crop – such as winter rye in vegetable gardens
• Placing crushed stone, wood chips, and other similar materials in heavily used areas where vegetation is hard to establish and maintain.
These weathering processes have given rise to most of the world's soils. A key concept to understand is how erosion, and thus soil formation, is a continual process. As rocks and sediments are eroded away, so more of the solid rock beneath becomes vulnerable in turn to weathering and breakdown.