Day: <span>April 22, 2022</span>

[Link] [Podcast] Eileen Kladivko, Earthworm Godmother

https://www.no-tillfarmer.com/articles/11462-podcast-eileen-kladivko-earthworm-godmother

Purdue soil scientist Eileen Kladivko explains how earthworms helped farmers see soil as a living system and why tillage, residue and rotations shape …

KindHarvest April 22, 2022

[Link] Celebrating Earth Day with on-farm conservation

https://www.farmprogress.com/conservation/celebrating-earth-day-with-on-farm-conservation

An Earth Day gallery shows conservation as routine farm management: buffers, prairie strips, cover crops, grazing and the reuse of food by-products.

KindHarvest April 22, 2022

[Link] Perennial rye crop shows potential for greener agriculture

https://www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/2022/04/perennial-rye-crop-shows-potential-for-greener-agriculture.html

A two-year University of Alberta experiment found a perennial rye plot took up substantial carbon dioxide without using more water than annual rye, wh…

KindHarvest April 22, 2022