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http://www.farmingmagazine.com/article.php?id=4739 Here is an article that was in a recent issue of Farming Magazine that discusses nutrient dense farming. It’s an interesting article that explains a few basic concepts and some history of the development of this nutritional approach to agriculture. A Rutgers researcher is mentioned in the article and I really appreciate his willingness to [...] Hi Everybody! I am deep into seed catalogues this week and making Salads or sweets or both? Some farms do very well focusing on growing salad vegetables like Here is a real important gardening tip; Plants consume 50% of their food What that means is, once a plant begins to flower, it consumes enormous amounts of food especially just before the fruit matures and slips off the vine or stem. As I mentioned in my last post, the last three days before fruit [...] Here is an interesting factoid someone mentioned to me one time and from my observations I believe it to be true; Fruits and vegetables put most of their vitamins, So here is the big advantage that local growers have over industrial agriculture….food with flavor! We [...] Em means efficient microbes and is famous around the world as a probiotic for soil, plants, sanitation, composting, and as a feed supplement. I have used it and my results were medium and I don’t recommend it by itself but if you want to mix it with other probiotics I think it is a good idea. [...] The other day, someone asked me a question about using sea salt as a trace mineral source for plants and I replied that sodium was an issue with sea salt but that sea water, properly handled, did indeed make a terrific supplement for plants. Here is a good testimony from a farmer who used Sea Crop [...] Many thanks to all who came to hear Allan Sexton and myself answer your gardening questions last saturday morning. I get a lot of energy from the give and take and I always come away more inspired and energized to do more and learn more and help more people. Soils seem to be a big mystery [...] |
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