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2010 Corvallis Youth Garden

August 31, 2010 Community Garden
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Potting Soil Of The Gods

August 30, 2010 Environment

Making your own compost and once it is ready, sifting it, then turning it into a rich planting medium is both economical and a nutrition boost to young plants. Rick Gush has lived in Italy since 2000 and writes about his cliff garden and other experiences in Italian urban agriculture on UrbanFarmOnline.com,
I cleaned out [...]

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Manure Provides Higher Returns Than Chemical Fertilizers, Economist Says

August 19, 2010 Compost

The supporters of industrial agri-business farming will not like this little tidbit but organic farming using animal manure makes is more profitable than chemical farming as reported on ScienceDaily.com,
No significant differences in corn yield were found between organic and chemical sources of nutrients, but a Texas AgriLife Research economist said manure generates higher economic returns [...]

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Deep vs Shallow Organic, And Why Gardeners Need To Know The Difference

August 14, 2010 Compost

Colleen Vanderlinden writes on the PlanetGreen.com site,
Eliot Coleman is an organic farmer, author, and agricultural innovator. He farms, year-round, in Maine, thanks to systems he’s developed for taking advantage of certain plants’ ability to grow even in the most frigid temperatures. In his latest book, The Winter Harvest Handbook (a fabulous read, by the way) [...]

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Feed the Soil, Not the Plants

August 8, 2010 Compost

Jared R. McKinley reports on the DrWeil.com News site,
The concept of organic gardening is NOT new. In fact, the use of chemical fertilizers and poisons are the new concepts, which really became the norm over the course of the twentieth century. Why did we start using such chemicals? To make a long story short, we [...]

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7 Food Forests In 7 Minutes

July 19, 2010 Compost

Food forests are at the heart of Permaculture and fast becoming a hot topic in many areas of debate as people who garden and farm realize their full potential.
With our all consuming global problems, there aren’t many natural solutions out there that can halt and reverse deforestation, stabilize the climate by returning carbon to the [...]

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Organic Farming Gains Ground In China

July 3, 2010 Compost

Fran Wang reports for AFP,
Ji Yunliang worked as a missile researcher at a large state-owned enterprise and later earned a doctorate in chemistry at a prestigious Beijing university. Now, he is running a small organic farm.
In a country hit by a series of food safety scandals, the interest in organic produce is growing fast.
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Bacteria Flee When Relatives Start Dying

June 30, 2010 Compost

A new study related to the soil food web shows living bacteria starting fleeing when relatives start dying in nearby colonies as Indiana University News Room reports,
The deaths of nearby relatives has a curious effect on the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus — surviving cells lose their stickiness.
Indiana University Bloomington biologists report in an upcoming issue of [...]

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Compost Filter Socks Improve Runoff From Croplands

June 22, 2010 Compost

From E! Science News,
Water runoff from cropped farm fields can contain large amounts of eroded soil as well as some of the fertilizer and herbicide. Expanding on existing conservation practices, a team of scientists has tested whether compost filters socks in grassed waterways would reduce sediment flow and retain dissolved chemicals in runoff. The researchers [...]

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Bonnaroo: Behind the Music, The Effort to Keep It Green; One Giant Compost/Recycling Operation

June 13, 2010 Compost

As I watch the Dave Matthews Band close out the Bonnaroo Music Festival on YouTube (all weekend the musical acts have been streamed over YouTube), I thought about the huge amount of trash and recyclables that is leftover from the big party. So I googled Bonnaroo trash and came up with Ben Sisario’s report in [...]

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