Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This morning, while he waits for help, he reaches a pitchfork up into a back compartment of the machine to pull out the straw that got stuck. Patrick adjusts the bolts that control the straw-release door on the back of the machine so its open 6 inches wider than it was, and then he and Hedgepeth climb the five-step ladder up front.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

The Farmers Daughter USA

JUNE 12, 2023

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. These bioplastics are biodegradable and compostable, reducing plastic waste accumulation and its associated harm to ecosystems.

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Straw Compost Manufacturing Ruralism 52

Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 10, 2024

Farmers once used straw or other organic matter instead of plastic mulch. Changing our ways But as plastics become ever more heavily relied upon, it’s easy to forget that we didn’t used to have them and there are a number of practices that could be substituted.

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Straw Farming Farming Ecology 98

UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

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. If you live in a high-rainfall climate, I recommend applying straw mulch after seeding to reduce crusting and soil loss.

Crop 105

Crop Cash Crop Seeding Harvest 105

Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Here are some of the most effective organic amendments: Compost : Compost is one of the most versatile and effective organic amendments for sandy soils. Rich in decomposed plant and animal matter, compost adds essential nutrients, improves soil structure, and enhances microbial activity.

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Manure Compost Fertilizer Straw 52

Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 24, 2023

Nitrogen helps with greenery, and potassium helps with plants’ stalks and straws Why fertilisers? Some traditional farming and agricultural methods, to date, use other methods of fertilising plants, especially farm manure and compost. They increase the depth of the roots and the water intake and volume.

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Manure Compost Straw Fertilizer 98

Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2024

He steeps the compost like a tea, extracting the microorganisms in water, and then runs it through his irrigation system. In addition to applying compost tea, Robb supports fungal life by creating mulch from wood chips, which the fungi help decompose. He mostly grows salad greens across 3 acres of farmland.

Farming 144

Farming Farming Crop Agriculture 144

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Instead of film, many small farms employing sustainable and regenerative practices use natural mulches such as wood chips, leaves, or straw, relying on the low-cost, time-honored practice to keep weeds in check and regulate soil moisture and temperature.

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Agriculture Agriculture Supply Chain Production 145

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

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 get everything possible from organic or biodynamic sources, Goess-Enzenberg says. Oak for our barriques, which we use to age our wines, comes from our own forest.

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Farming Farming Construction Harvest 62

Modern Farmer

MAY 23, 2024

Packaged poop can take hundreds of years to break down, even in bags deemed compostable or biodegradable; certifications that are based on commercial composting conditions, not landfills—but US industrial composting facilities don’t accept pet waste. In the US, dog parks are catching on.

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Compost Manure Processing Fertilizer 130

Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

According to its website, the material decays in controlled composting conditions. It envisions local systems where natural fibers are sustainably grown, processed, sewn into garments and ultimately composted. “I have one customer in the world.” Less than one percent of cotton grown in the US is organic.

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Textiles Manufacturing Production Processing 115

Modern Farmer

MARCH 4, 2024

Besides foraging for fungi adapted to the subarctic environment, taming the stew of toxins required a larger bioremediation strategy, using local willows to concentrate inorganic contaminants such as heavy metals, as well as municipal compost, which added microbes and nutrients to help spur decomposition.

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Cultivation Manufacturing Production Textiles 125

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

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.

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Ploughing Crop Yield Farming 52

ATTRA

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Voices of farm workers, young people in shorts and muck boots and wide brimmed straw hats drift across the fields. I see myriad varieties of vegetable crops one after the other in planned succession–seedlings and vegetative and fruiting–and I can smell the musty earthiness of the compost pile in the center of the field plots.

Farming 40

Farming Farming Meadow Compost 40