Sustainable Food Trust
APRIL 10, 2024
It’s now well recognised that soil is significantly affected by the presence of MPs in the soil environment and they are currently, an “ emerging contaminant ” of concern – i.e. any synthetic or natural chemicals or microorganisms that are not widely monitored and can cause known or unknown ecological or human health effects.
UnderstandingAg
OCTOBER 29, 2023
Root crops and tuber beds are generally clean and free of residue after harvest, which make them an easy location to direct seed with any seeder, or broadcast seed, followed by applying a straw mulch. If you live in a high-rainfall climate, I recommend applying straw mulch after seeding to reduce crusting and soil loss.
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Caff
JANUARY 24, 2024
Finally, everyone gathered around a long table covered in sterilized straw and learned how to inoculate different substrates with fungi spawn. A participant breaks open some packed spawn material to spread through the straw. Straw wattles and jute landscape fabric are two erosion control materials that are easily inoculated with fungi.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
Using conservation tillage involves covering at least 30% of soil surface with crop residue and/or straw following planting. No-till farming leaves the soil surface undisturbed by tillage and crop residue is left on the soil surface. The Census shows that between the 2017 and 2022 Census, the US lost approximately 1.8
Sustainable Food Trust
JUNE 28, 2023
The 50 years of farming at Bwlchwernen, according to the interconnected principles of health, ecology and a circular economy, have not only stewarded the farm’s natural biodiversity as a complete and thriving ecosystem, but also created the conditions to increase and improve its biodiversity potential.
Civil Eats
JULY 17, 2023
If the emissions aren’t from the shoreline, no amount of straw bales is going to improve the air quality,” says John Gillies, an atmospheric physicist at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada. It’s associated with air quality, ecology, and biologicals in the lake. Water quality isn’t just water quality.
Sustainable Food Trust
JUNE 14, 2023
The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology estimates that “One teaspoonful of topsoil contains around 1 billion microscopic cells and around 10,000 different species.” A claim repeated in various ways, is that a teaspoonful of healthy soil contains more living organisms than there are people on the planet.
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