Soil Composition
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Perennial Plants and Permaculture
Currently, approximately 80% of the food crops grown in the world are annual plants, and it’s been this way for…
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Maya Mountain Research Farm Update: Pigs and Biochar
Maya Mountain Research Farm (MMRF) is a small NGO and working farm located in southern Belize. The farm has about…
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Our Backyard Soil Sample – The Results Are In!
Four years ago Now A few weeks ago we had our amazing interns prepare a soil sample to be sent…
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Soil Microbes Help Save Plant-growing Input Costs (Video)
by Doug Weatherbee Learn how beneficial soil microbes can provide soluble nutrients and plant disease suppression to your farm or…
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APC11 Presentation: Albert Bates on Biochar (Video)
Albert Bates talks about biochar at APC11 (Turangi, New Zealand) Photo © Craig Mackintosh I’m personally unsure about biochar. This…
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The Frontiers of Crop Science
by Nico Snyman: B.Sc. Agric (Agron.)Pret. Six years after we started farming in the tropics, in the upper catchment areas…
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A Recipe for a Hugelkultur Raised Bed
I’ve been wanting to do a hugelkultur bed ever since I saw an article about a village store garden where…
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Getting Kids Into Gardening, Part II: Create a Pizza Garden
Pizza making with home grown produce Gardening can be an invaluable tool for helping children explore all kinds of things…
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How to Prepare a Beneficial Microorganism Mixture
Many have heard of EM mixtures, sold worldwide with cultures of effective microorganisms, that due to their symbiotic relationships with…
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The Biochar Miracle
Carbon pirates bury black gold… so future generations will be richer. – John Rogers Biochar is being promoted as the…
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Food Forests, Part 2: Looking for Clues
Click for larger view As people become urbanised, they start looking at the world in urban ways. What does that…
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Swale Fail?
Editor’s Note: It’d be great if more people would share their successes and failures in similar fashion as Greg has…
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