agriculture
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What We Did Before Informs The Future
One of the more rewarding things about plant husbandry is watching things that you take care of grow. As skills and understanding get better, as developing science expands how we think about plants and how plants communicate with their environment, we too must grow as people to be able to absorb new information and apply… Continue reading
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Looking At The Positives
Week two here of examining the Shortfalls Of Our Zero Till system, and maybe the first thing after admitting defeat should be to look at all the positives and see what lessons we can and should carry forward. This past 2023 season we saw a record amount of productivity out of the field…we were more… Continue reading
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Shortfalls of Our Zero-Till
For a few years now we have, at the end of each season, applied a large amount of compost to our zero-till beds. Through the years we experimented with different sorts of combinations of leaves, mulch and broadforking, all in attempt to loosen up our hard clay. In general it worked. We accomplished our goals:… Continue reading
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Starting Over
One of the best parts of farming, or agriculture, is that starting over and doing it all again is built into the process. You get the opportunity to do it all over again, bringing forward everything learned and experienced. It allows for growth, infrastructure improvements, and design efficiencies. We’ve had several years now with our… Continue reading
About Graham
Graham is an ecologist-farmer from Canada working on educating about the wonders and beauty of the natural world, and how we can design biodiverse food production systems.
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