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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

Looking for root causes and real solutions

Posted on Friday, April 2nd, 2004 at 2:16 pm.

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By Mary-Howell Martens (with Klaas’ help!), Lakeview Organic Grain Originally posted on April 2, 2004 March comes, cold and snowy, but then suddenly overnight, it’s Spring! Just a few days of warm weather and fields of wheat change from yellow … Continued

Go BLUE!

Posted on Friday, August 1st, 2003 at 2:16 pm.

Posted by amanda

By Laura Sayre Originally posted in August 2003 When I arrive at Emery’s Berry Farm early on a Monday morning, the first school bus is already in the parking lot, unloading summer campers toward the barn-like farm stand. Shepherded by … Continued

Debbie on Ask the farmer: Breaking free from “Pro-GMO” mythsMichael, GMO and selective breeding are two completely different animals. GMO means Genetically Modified... meaning that scientists have taken genes from one organism (usually a bacteria) and spliced them into...
Susannah Batstone on Life in Natural Agriculture Soil, Part 1Hope this gets widely read here in the UK. With dire predictions for Biodiversity in the future, every little bit of understanding and appreciation of the communities within all soils...
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...