Civil Eats
MARCH 11, 2024
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.” It is always covered with straw, leaf mold, or wood chips,” says Leah Penniman, the co-founder of Soul Fire Farm in upstate New York. “We
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
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.
Civil Eats
JULY 17, 2023
Date palm plantations and orchards cover the eastern Coachella Valley to the north. 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. 1 commodity for the last 64 years.
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