What Soil Does
Healthy soil gives us clean air and water, bountiful crops and forests, productive grazing lands, diverse wildlife, and beautiful landscapes. Soil does all this by …
The real sustainability revolution in farming is New Breeding Techniques like CRISPR. Why are organic farmers blocked from using them? — Genetic Literacy Project
[dropcap]H[/dropcap]ow do we define ‘organics’? From a legal perspective, the term can only be applied to foods that meet a laundry list of requirements set …
Aquatic Insect Similarity Connecting Natural Wetland Habitat and Ricefield for Ecological Rice Production in Agusan Marsh in Mindanao, Philippines – IJAAR — International Network for Natural Sciences
By: P. Varela Abstract This study describes the relationship of the natural wetland habitats in Agusan Marsh to nearby rice fields and its implication to …
Urban Food Gardens and the Sustainable Development Goals: blooming opportunities for local governance? — Blogue ATS
By Tainan Messina One of the first things that called my attention in Lisbon, when I first arrived from Brazil, was the amount of used …
Soil microbes help plant species divide nutrients and promote community productivity — Functional Ecology – plain language summaries
Shan Luo, Bernhard Schmid, Gerlinde B. De Deyn, Shixiao Yu A fundamental prediction of ecological theory is that the maximum number of coexisting species cannot …
As CO2 Levels Rise, Rice Becomes Less Nutritious — Big4All.Org
One of the world’s most important food crops may be declining in quality due to greenhouse gas emissions. The results of a major study, published …
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What makes soil tick — SARAH THE GARDENER
When you have great soil, you don’t really need to give it much thought. Just pop the plants in, they grow wonderfully, you harvest a …
Bact-eria to the Future — Wellfield Botanic Gardens
Josh talks about microherds and what you can do to manage them. via Bact-eria to the Future — Wellfield Botanic Gardens
What makes soil tick — SARAH THE GARDENER
When you have great soil, you don’t really need to give it much thought. Just pop the plants in, they grow wonderfully, you harvest a …
FEED THE SOIL NOT THE PLANTS — agoyvaerts
For the past three weeks we have both been working in the garden. I am told that it was an extraordinary wet spring and we …