Regenerative agriculture is in everyone’s best interest. This is true for the producer, who reap a variety of benefits from fully regenerated soil. The general idea being healthy soil is more resistant to environmental stresses; ranging from drought to disease, and will therefore produce healthier plants. This is true for consumers, who stand to gain …
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Vermicompost Feedstock Recipe: How to Make Worm Food and Why You Should Do It
if one can consistently feed the worms the exact same food then the castings produced should be of a consistent quality and thus consistently bestow the same benefits upon the crop
Pioneers of Regenerative Farming: The Miraculous Dr. Northen
“Do you know that most of us today are suffering from certain dangerous diet deficiencies which cannot be remedied until the depleted soils from which our foods come are brought into proper mineral balance?” These words were spoken by Rex Breach, a gentleman farmer from the state of Florida, in his 1936 address to the …
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Mycorrhizae: Meet your friendly neighborhood fungi
Healthy soil is alive. It is a living, thriving cesspool of microorganisms feasting on decaying organic material. And that’s just the way plants like it. Many of these microorganisms reside in the rhizosphere, a micro-biome directly surrounding a plant’s root system. These soil microbes (e.g. bacteria, fungi, algae, etc.,) host functions beneficial to both the …
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