ATTRA
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign created a custom form of biochar designed to capture phosphorus from farm runoff to prevent waterway pollution.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 9, 2024
The 35,000 community members who live closest to the sea are largely farmworkers and migrants who work in the booming farming regions to the north and south. Palomino and others at Alianza CV are also convinced that the seas poor water quality is linked to the regions air pollution, long ranked as among the worst in the nation.
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Farmbrite
AUGUST 23, 2023
Soil is the foundation of your farm, the living system that provides nutrition for all the plants and animals that live there. Here are six ways you can improve long-term soil health on your farm: What is soil health? Rotating crops is one of the best ways to improve long-term soil health on your farm. Rotate your crops.
Modern Farmer
DECEMBER 13, 2024
Twice a growing season, a big yellow truck with the license plate P4FARMS pulls into Jesse Kayans farm in Brattleboro, Vermont, loaded with a thousand gallons of pasteurized human urine sloshing around in IBC totes. This is no surprise to Arthur Davis, who oversees farm partnerships for Rich Earth.
Cropaia
MAY 25, 2024
As part of regenerative agriculture practices, biochar provides a means to improve soil properties, sequester carbon, and enhance overall farm sustainability. Its high cation exchange capacity (CEC) allows it to adsorb and retain nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, preventing them from washing away into waterways.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 11, 2024
Traditional Knowledge Will Shape the Future Pocknett and his younger cousin, CheeNulKa Pocknett , know about using bivalves to mitigate nitrogen pollution. The two manage First Light Shellfish Farm , the tribes aquacultural operation on Popponesset Bay, which the elder Pocknetts father founded in 1977.
Modern Farmer
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
For many sheep farms, wool is not a viable income stream. A lot of people drag it out to the far corner of their farm or stuff it in bags and leave it in the corner of the barn ‘til it gets to take up so much room, they don’t know what to do,” says Hagen. It’s not really waste, she explains—just wool that needs a purpose.
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