Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

“ “My philosophy has always been that the health of soil, plants, animals, people, and the environment is one.” ” — Rattan Lal, professor of soil science + 2020 World Food Prize Laureate Conventional, or industrial, agriculture uses chemicals to defend crops from weeds, certain insect species, and diseases.

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Compost Fertilizer Crop Food 59

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Yet Hartman and his family manage to work less and make the same income on one third of an acre—the renowned Clay Bottom Farm —as they did on an acre. Hartman maximizes many practices from the past while implementing today’s tech “on a human scale” to reap the greatest reward.

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Food Farming Farming Seeding 129

RR2CS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Together, Harold and his brother, Chris, and his father, Gerald, work collaboratively as partners to manage 5000 acres of irrigated land producing potatoes — varieties of chippers, russets, and red Mozart potatoes — along with other field crops, including hard red spring wheat, winter wheat, barley, sunflowers, green peas, seed canola.

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Farming Farming Crop Manure 52