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The Night Shift

Modern Farmer

The conditions impacted crop yields, livestock, the transportation of goods, and the larger supply chain. Women pastoralists in particular are entirely left out of these policy spaces, said Rabari, which isnt just an issue of exclusion but means their unique ecological knowledge is lost, too.

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Maces Pond: Agrisolar Wild Blueberries

ATTRA

For example, an ATV is now used for any spray applications and a walk behind harvester will be used under the panels instead of tractor-pulled harvest equipment. With some planning and simple techniques, damage to a site’s ecology can be minimized.

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Organics, Carbon Farming, and Cultivating Soil (and Values!)

Hartwood Farm

While all the practices help improve our soil and crops in quantity and quality, they also take a lot more time and money to manage, and they aren’t a quick fix (it literally took five years to see the first results). Like soil microbes, Beulah enjoys grazing on cover crops in the wintertime.