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Regenerative Gardening, No-Till Winter Cover Crop Strategies

UnderstandingAg

This is generally accomplished by mechanically removing plants by flail mowing, tillage, cultivation equipment, or by manual labor. Although no-till implies not tilling at all, many no-till market gardeners still rely on some form of light tillage to create a seed bed or apply copious amounts of compost as a mulch to create a seed bed.

Crop 90
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Are Next-Gen Synthetic Fibers the Future of Sustainable Textiles?

Modern Farmer

In addition, most natural fibers are grown conventionally, which often means heavy use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers and genetically modified or treated seeds. Those fibers can be plant-derived, mycelium, cultivated animal cells, microbe-derived, recycled materials and blends. Cotton, the most used natural fiber, occupies 2.4

Textiles 101
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More things in Heaven and Earth: Mycorrhizal fungi, ploughing, no-till and glyphosate

Sustainable Food Trust

In 1951, pioneering organic farmer, Frank Newman Turner, took up the theme in his book, Fertility Farming , referring to mycorrhizal associations he writes (p.50), ” By ‘short-circuit’ feeding, he means the use of artificial fertilisers.