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Fungi Are Helping Farmers Unlock the Secrets of Soil Carbon

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He mostly grows salad greens across 3 acres of farmland. We like to think of these wood chips as encouraging the fungi from the native forest around to come into our fields and partner with our orchards and with our crops.” The ratio of fungi to bacteria depends on the plants, explains Robb.

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

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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. Oh, what a day, he says. I cant cut wheat until I get that fixed. He nods approvingly.