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.

Straw 98

Straw Farming Farming Ecology 98

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.

Crop 93

Crop Cash Crop Seeding Harvest 93

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.

Straw 52

Straw Greenhouse Livestock Farming 52

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

Agriculture 105

Agriculture Agriculture Pasture Acre 105

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.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Meadow Straw 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 remember a warm summer day, the sun casting shadows of cornstalks on freshly tilled humic soil. Take a look at the resources I’ve listed below and ask yourself, “What else can we do?” Tell me your thoughts at lee@ncat.org.

Farming 40

Farming Farming Meadow Compost 40

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.

Pesticide 98

Pesticide Acre Agriculture Agriculture 98