Articles: fertilizers

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The Importance of Planting Cover Crops

If you want to improve your soil, one of the most important things you can do is to plant cover crops. But they need to be selected with a purpose.

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Biodynamic Farming: Unlock Fertile Fields with Cows & Compost

“An immediate halt to chemical fertilizing and returning to the use of compost instead would turn degeneration into regeneration.”

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glyphosate

So What Exactly Is Glyphosate?

Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup, the most commonly used weedkiller in the world. Nearly 300 million pounds of glyphosate-based herbicides are sprayed on farms (and…

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Toxic Food, Sick Kids, and the Limits of Medicine: The Perfect Storm

Why is it that approximately 40% of children now have a food allergy? Is the industrial & toxic food system to blame or modern medical practices? Perhaps…

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