Compost Harvesting Manure 
ATTRA
AUGUST 15, 2023
To “every day do something that won’t compute… say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold.” On the Mad Farm, this is enacted through compost and especially the cover crops that occupy space on the gardens each season. Tomatoes planted into a tilled-in rye, vetch, and red clover green manure, May 21.
UnderstandingAg
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Adding a cover crop adds a new inflow, and it’s more likely that a portion of that carbon will stay in the soil if that cover crop is not harvested. You can also add carbon via humic products or compost, but the most efficient route is to let plants do the work for us. Adding too much nitrogen has the same result as tillage.
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Sustainable Harvest International
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Learn more at our World Soil Day webinar The Soil-ution Sustainable Harvest International's proven model demonstrates the profound benefit of family farmers working in harmony with nature. The composting process creates an environment for decomposition. Our approach empowers farmers to be catalysts for necessary change.
UnderstandingAg
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Some carbon accumulates in the plant as it grows and ends up as crop residue and root biomass that decays after harvest. Another portion of carbon is removed when the grain is harvested. We typically add very little carbon to our fields unless we are adding a lot of manure or compost. of carbon per acre annually.
Sustainable Harvest International
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Their innate desire to nurture and uplift their communities in Belize, Honduras, and Panama is palpable as they work with Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) to transform their farms into regenerative ones. In Phase 1 of SHI’s multi-phase program, she quickly learns how to build a plant nursery and compost storage.
ATTRA
OCTOBER 31, 2023
Instead of throwing garden refuse away or composting it, one could instead chop it up and drop it as mulch back into the garden. Both “cut and carry” and “chop and drop” allow for nutrient cycling, especially if the goat manure can be collected and used to fertilize the trees they are eating, closing that loop.
Food Tank
OCTOBER 11, 2023
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. The vineyards are weeded only using hoes, never herbicides, and fertilized with manure. Boochcraft, United States Boochraft produces kombucha, an alcoholic fermented tea.
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