Soil Composition
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Regenerative Organic Agriculture and Climate Change: A Down-to-Earth Solution to Global Warming
There is a powerful means of addressing the challenges of carbon capture and climate change — promoting photosynthesis! This means…
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Designer Resource: Getting Soil Data from the USDA Web Soil Survey (USA)
Soil is one of the basic resources that we have when beginning to work with land. Along with water, climatic…
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Dung Beetles – The Underground Army Enriching the Soil
This video gives an overview of the benefits of establishing and managing dung beetles. Dung beetles are fascinating insects, working…
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Grow Food and Soil With A Food Forest
Soil before and after After ten years of learning from and collaborating with a mega-diverse, globally inspired, edible forest garden,…
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Differences in Tilled and No Till Soils – A Demonstration
In this video agronomist Mark Scarpitti of USDA-NRCS Ohio state demonstrates the differences between tilled and no-till soils by doing…
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Building Up Soil for a Nutrient-Rich Raised Bed
All photos by David Ashwanden A lot of permaculture involves utilising waste streams and turning problems into solutions, and I…
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Soil: The Hidden Frontier
Permaculturists everywhere are crazy about patterns. We are taught to “zen-out” so we can observe patterns in nature and society.…
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Omaha Conference on Cover Crops and Soil Health – Presentation Resources
Recently, I had the honor of attending a national conference on cover crops and soil health. The conference was held…
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Bhaskar Save, the Gandhi of Natural Farming
Sage of a minimalist farming system based on non-violence and all of nature’s biodiversity that produces in abundance with no…
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Earthworms at Work
The last post of Phillip Bradley was about no till farming practices, cover cropping and direct sowing. We have farmers…
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Introduction to Naturalised Nursery Practice
Applying the understandings of ecosystem mimicry to create alternative solutions to current nursery practices of disease control, fertilisation and sterile…
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Mohamed Hijri: A Simple Solution to the Coming Phosphorus Crisis (video)
Biologist Mohamed Hijri brings to light a farming crisis no one is talking about: We are running out of phosphorus,…
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