Source: jappliedecologyblog.wordpress.com Published: November 9, 2016 In this post Nahuel Policelli discusses a recent paper by Timothy M. Bowles and colleagues ‘Ecological intensification and arbuscular mycorrhizas: a meta-analysis of tillage and cover crop effects‘...
Source: resilience.org Published: September 23, 2016 Photo credit: CC BY 2.5, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8433090 By Erika Styger, originally published by Patterns of Commoning When the rainy season came early to the highlands of Madagascar in 1983, the...
Source: fao.org Published: March 22, 2017 (Text comes from a pdf article) Mrs Tea Sarim is one of the participating farmers in a European Union funded multi-country (Cambodia, Lao PDR, Vietnam and Thailand) project called “Sustaining and Enhancing the Momentum for...
Source: thrivemarket.com Published: August 31, 2016 When industrial agriculture took over in India around the 1940s, many traditions related to farming and wildcrafting tulsi, also known as holy basil, were lost. But regenerative agriculture ushers in a return to...
Source: pccfarmlandtrust.org Published: January 28, 2016 Between 1997 and 2007, Pierce County lost nearly 23 percent of its farmland, much of it in the abundant Puyallup Valley. At this time, one quarter of the county’s farmland was slated for development. With the...
Source: pecva.org Published: June 6, 2016 A newborn lamb with his mother and sibling. Lambing season is the only time Mike Sands doesn’t graze his sheep and cattle together. Otherwise, grazing the animals together is beneficial to their health and the farm’s soil....
