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Best Practices for Managing Plant Nutrients

Farmbrite

To cultivate robust crops, understanding the soil's condition is vital, which is where soil testing comes in. To be thorough and have the best growing season, it's a good idea to take all this into account during the crop planning process. Compost: Compost improves and adds nourishment to the soil.

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20 Organizations Cultivating the Food Movement in Atlanta

Food Tank

Through their Resource Center programming, the Alliance offers trainings and workshops; volunteer and labor support; compost, tools, and equipment; and capacity building grants. They also bring local government leaders together to develop plans that integrate urban agriculture into city planning processes.

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

He also cultivates 75 acres of wheat, 83 acres of soybeans, 65 acres of corn, and 45 acres of hardwoods and pine trees. Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s. Now its OK to talk about, because now we actually have a little bit of ownership in the process, he says.

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What’s Left Out of the Conversation When it Comes to Urban Agriculture

Food Tank

Urban agriculture can take on many different forms including, but not limited to, community gardens, urban farms, greenspaces, bioswales, rain gardens, community composting, beekeeping, and aquaculture. Many utilize regenerative growing and composting to maintain healthy crop life cycles from seed to harvest and foster healthy soils.

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20 Sustainable Sips to Cheer For

Food Tank

It also reveals that the production cultivation of barley and hops is responsible for most of the environmental impact of beer. The company composts all fruit scraps, tea, herbs, cultures, and paper towels while also saving over 1,100 gallons of water per day through their recapture system. Rise & Win Brewing Co.,

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Cultivating Knowledge: The Benefits of Hydroponics in K-12 STEM Education

Fork Farms

It offers an innovative and practical approach to teaching various scientific concepts while cultivating an understanding of sustainable agriculture. This hands-on experience provides a tangible connection to the biological processes of plants and allows students to witness the complexities of plant growth.

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Guest Post: Is the Future of Organic Food at Risk? Research Funding Holds the Answer

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Many conventional farmers implement organic practices such as compost applications, diversified rotations, cover cropping, or biological integrated pest management (IPM) to build healthy soil and reduce the direct and environmental costs of production. Managing soil health, pests, and diseases in protected cultivation such as high tunnels.

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