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

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As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7 Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s. 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.

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Fungi Are Helping Farmers Unlock the Secrets of Soil Carbon

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This relationship becomes especially interesting when business is booming—when the plants are delivering a lot of carbon into the soil that is used to build larger and larger fungal networks while distributing carbon across the soil profile. Photo credit: Adam Cobb) “We never leave our soil bare.

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