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

Civil Eats

Isaiah White harvests kale at his familys fifth-generation farm in Warren County, where the U.S. When he was nine, he started trucking the tobacco, or driving the loaded tractor from the fields where the hands were harvesting the leaves up to the barns where they were flue cured. Oh, what a day, he says. They must be pets?

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Regenerative Gardening, No-Till Winter Cover Crop Strategies

UnderstandingAg

The timing of winter cover crops can be difficult in the garden because of the crop diversity growing into the fall, each with different end-harvest dates. Find the low hanging fruit – Beds which are relatively clean and bare after harvest require little planning and are ready to seed. tomatoes, corn, pumpkins, or peas).

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Corn Residue Creating Renewable Plastic

The Farmers Daughter USA

Although most of us imagine that it has something to do with swapping plastic straws for paper straw, it’s something that goes much further. Corn stover, which comprises the plant’s stalk and leaves, are generally separated from the corn during harvest and left in the field.

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Biodynamic Farms Are One Thing. What About Biodynamic Businesses?

Modern Farmer

You want to make planting and harvesting choices according to the moon? Straw and manure for our compost comes from local farms in our neighborhood, which we mix with remains from grapes after theyve been pressed. We were amazed at the difference between wine made in barrels harvested on fruit and flower days, Cullen says.

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

Sustainable Food Trust

By ‘lack of humus’ he is referring to the increasing trend, even then, to dispense with returning organic matter to the soil, for example, in the form of composted farmyard manure, that was made possible by the development of synthetic fertilisers. litres per hectare.