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Whole-Orchard Nutrient Management & On-Farm Composting at Heartwood Farms

Caff

On April 10th, Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) hosted a field day at Heartwood Farms in Linden, CA with farmers Franz Eilers and Emma Wade to discuss all things compost and pest management on their biologically-integrated walnut and cherry orchards. The compost created from ground-up walnut prunings and cover crop mowings.

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Can New York City Treat Its Food Scraps as More Than Trash?

Civil Eats

On an unseasonably sunny day in March, at a community garden in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick, Dan Gross and Shaq Benn moved piles of wood chips and hosed down shoulder-high windrows of compost. Tucked underneath elevated train tracks, Know Waste Lands is the home base of the compost-hauling nonprofit BK Rot.

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20 Sustainable Sips to Cheer For

Food Tank

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. Boochcraft partners with The Ecology Center for the advancement of regenerative agriculture. Martinique Rhum J.M In 2016, Rhum J.M Rise & Win Brewing Co.,

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The Sustainable Soil-ution Beneath Your Feet

Sustainable Harvest International

Composting Organic materials including agricultural residue such as corn stalks and rice hulls, weeds, manure, ash from cookstoves and kitchen waste, such as peels and eggshells, join to create rich, life-giving compost. The composting process creates an environment for decomposition. In Panama alone, 2.1

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SHIPPING GARBAGE

The Lunatic Farmer

If you have them on a carbonaceous diaper (I describe this in detail in the book) they won’t smell and their manure will turn into wonderful compost for your house plants. That would certainly use all the compost from all the chickens in all the apartments eating all the food scraps on site. And you should have house plants.

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Agroecological Crop Selection, Part 2

ATTRA

Where are we in the ecological succession? Trees exist in a different ecological succession stage than pioneering stage plants, also known as weeds. Ecological succession is the process by which plant communities change over time, eventually yielding a climax community. I did my graduate work in cotton.

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NATIONAL PARKS

The Lunatic Farmer

But on these sales, taxpayers paid for the roads, paid for the bidding process, inventory evaluation, etc. Not only would such use, if expanded to the government land, be an ecological stimulant, it would completely eliminate the need for factory hog houses. When I sell timber, I bear all the costs.

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