Authored by Andrew Smith, Ph.D.1, Rick Carr2, and Gladis Zinati, Ph.D.3 1 Chief Operating Officer/Chief Scientist, Rodale Institute, Kutztown, PA 2 Farm Director, Rodale Institute, Kutztown, PA 3 Director, Vegetable […]
Abstract The Rodale Institute Farming System Trial shows a legume-based crop rotation alone or with compost amendment can significantly increase soil carbon and nitrogen levels compared to a conventional maize […]
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Tree As A Crop uses a simple concept that offers extraordinary potential to create ecological, social and economic health. Modeled on the natural cycle of planting, harvesting and replanting annual […]
Despite the rather short growing season in the Northeast corner of the US, farms in the six New England states are beginning to offer impressively unusual produce. Inspired by the area’s […]
A recent White Paper released by GMO Free USA entitled “Eating Out: A Date With Glyphosate” has reported that the weedkiller glyphosate and its byproducts are pervasive in foods served […]
In October 2018, researchers and subject experts from around the world met for the Soil Health Institute’s Conference on Connections Between Soil Health and Human Health. Attended by nearly 200 […]
Key Issues Cotton is considered the world’s dirtiest crop due to its heavy use of pesticides. Aldicarb, cotton’s second best-selling insecticide and most acutely poisonous to humans and wildlife, was […]
When I moved to the Pacific Northwest eight years ago to start a market farm, it was my first experience growing food on a large scale. My focus was on […]
The vision for regenerative organic agriculture grew out of the fertile soil at the Rodale Institute main campus. Since the 1970s, scientists and farmers there have been raising crops and […]
