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Fertilising Plants – All you need to know

Kavya Organic Farm

Nitrogen helps with greenery, and potassium helps with plants’ stalks and straws Why fertilisers? Laborious activities like farming, construction, traffic, etc can negatively impact the soil by changing its chemical structure, which is why fertilisers are required to keep the plants intact.

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Can Mushrooms Help Extinguish Toxic Waste?

Modern Farmer

Besides foraging for fungi adapted to the subarctic environment, taming the stew of toxins required a larger bioremediation strategy, using local willows to concentrate inorganic contaminants such as heavy metals, as well as municipal compost, which added microbes and nutrients to help spur decomposition.

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Biodynamic Farms Are One Thing. What About Biodynamic Businesses?

Modern Farmer

The sun, the star that anchors our system and shines bright for much of the year in this region, shapes our construction projects, Bertrand explains. Our cellar and winery is constructed from hemp bricks and wood to create a plant-based space that can receive external energies, Eden explains. Photography submitted by Gerard Bertrand.

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