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Managing weeds on a Midwest farm

Posted on Tuesday, December 11th, 2012 at 8:19 pm.

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A profile of Ken Rider By Patrick Lillard We’ve all probably played with modeling clay at some point in our lives, making pottery or a sculpture in school. Well, imagine trying to grow a plant in it. That analogy came … Continued

Final year of field research on alternatives to black plastic

Posted on Tuesday, December 11th, 2012 at 5:58 pm.

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By Lindsey Brielle The SARE Vegetable Trial is a field study designed to identify the impacts of black plastic and cover crop mulches on weeds, soil quality, yields and season length for a variety of crops at Rodale Institute (RI) … Continued

Cover-cropping guru Steve Groff champions fall-planted forage radish mixes to renovate field lanes

Posted on Thursday, November 10th, 2005 at 11:56 am.

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By Greg Bowman Originally posted on November 10, 2005 Steve Groff is endlessly curious about new ways to use cover crops to build up his soil. A current interest is how to make forage radishes work in tandem with other … Continued

A truly regenerative agriculture

Posted on Friday, January 7th, 2005 at 1:49 pm.

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By Kyle Holzhueter Originally posted on January 7, 2005 Editor’s Note: A shorter version of this article appears in the Jan./Feb. 2005 issue of PASA Passages, the newsletter of the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (www.pasafarming.org) Imagine assembling a self-contained, … Continued

Trina on Not all compost is created equalVery much looking forward to your next post on this subject! Please include information about vermiculture, using eisenia fetida, red worms.
Linda Watson on Time to change the food safety debateExcellent article on a vital topic. Let's not let Big Food smother the sustainable farmer in bubble-wrap and thereby deny most people access to real, affordable food.
Susannah Batstone on Recipe for great growthPerhaps this shouldn't be titled 'Dig Deeper'! Mulching and no-till much kinder to the communities. But guidance appreciated on how to cope with rampant weeds like buttercups? Some are over...
Shankarananda das-Hilo, Hawaii, Big Island, Puna District -Kalapana on Not all compost is created equalAloha Mark, thank you for doing all kinds of research for the benefit of humanity and mother earth. I read that every civilization that destroyed their soil, also collapsed! Moral:...
Kevin on Mesophyllic fertilizer and soil culturingNicole, Always before planting and sometimes some more later such as potatoes where we put additional meso out before we hill up.