Pinging the List.
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Having to cover all my blueberries, hazelnuts and broccoli/lettuce/etc sometime tomorrow after the windy/bad weather has passed. Nightime lows in the mid 20’s forecast for my locale.
bah.
With 6.’’ of heavy snow forecast, the only thing growing in the garden is white.
Meanwhile:
Forget the past, carbon-rich soil may be the ticket to sustainable agriculture http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3731886/posts
Posted on 3/3/2019, 4:10:02 PM by artichokegrower
Loren Poncia scooped up a handful of dark, damp soil that could change the future of farming.
The nutrient-rich muck was filled with slithery earthworms and thin, white roots sprouting in every direction like lightning bolts.
“This is the carbon farmer’s dream,” he exclaims. “We want to see like 10 worms in a shovel-full.”
Many conventional farms till their soil and strip the land of all vegetation, reducing the amount of carbon in the soil,..
“We found a clear correlation between the addition of manure to the soil system and an increase in carbon numbers,”.
“Add compost, increase plant growth...
I forgot to post this in the past, but I have a tree farm in the Florida Panhandle...at least I did. I have about 90 acres that were part of my grandmother and grandfather’s homestead in the early 1900’s. I inherited about 90 acres planted with pine trees that are almost 40 years old. The hurricane that hit Panama City last year was a direct hit and pretty much flattened everything, The eye went directly over my property and there are maybe 20% of the trees still standing. Trying to figure out what to do. Not much market for downed trees, but I need to get them cleared out so maybe paper pulp and then replant. I have to keep the land agricultural or the taxes will kill me.