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About TERRATILL IMPLEMENTS
Sarel Haasbroek is one half of the founding pair of TERRATILL IMPLEMENTS and the current CEO. A successful commercial maize and cattle farmer, Sarel has gained extensive knowledge of the South African farming conditions and what farmers require from their machinery. In addition to the machinery trade, Sarel manages a farm in the Carletonville area of Gauteng. Besides wheat, other grains are also cultivated on his farm. Sarel is involved in various business ventures and also an executive member of Grain SA. With his valuable experience and business expertise, TERRATILL IMPLEMENTS has gone from strength to strength and will continue to do so with Sarel at the helm.
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We are dedicated to customer service when providing our lawn care and mowing services, as well as during every property maintenance services we offer. We take great pride to give your property the manicured look you want, while staying within your budget. Our lawn care teams will mow, trim around trees and edges and clean up the grass clippings. We work hard to make sure each property has the appearance our customers expect. Not only do we service office buildings and big box stores, but we also have the equipment to manage empty fields and we have brush hogs for thicker brush removal.
Fall & Spring Cleanup
Our crews are here to help with fall and spring cleanup services. The beginning of the Spring and Fall are great times to get your lawn, gardens and property ready for the upcoming season. In the Spring, we will get your lawn and flowerbeds ready for the Summer months. We can also help remove the trash that has accumulated under the piles of snow all winter, so you don’t need to worry about unsightly debris and mess. In the Fall we will trim back plants and remove dead flowers, fallen leaves and other accumulated debris.
Mulch & Stone
Whether you need mulch or landscape stone, American Pavement Maintenance can supply and install both for you. A newly planted tree’s best friend is mulch. It insulates the soil which protects trees from heat and cold. It also retains water, helps keep weeds out, and reduces lawn mower damage. Landscape stone is a great alternative to mulching. It has reduced maintenance, appearance longevity and reduced debris.
Tree & Shrub Trimming
Trees and shrubs serve both a beauty and functional purpose. Maintaining them on a regular schedule with tree trimming and shrub pruning can prolong the life and beauty of them. If you are looking to add beauty to your landscape by planting new trees, shrubs or flowers, we have the equipment and the crews available to help you add to the beautification of your property. If there comes a time that a tree dies or needs to be removed for other reasons, we are able to accomplish that task with our tree removal service which include full cleanup of debris, and if necessary, stump grinding.
Fertilization & Weed Control
We will provide your lawn with consistent healthy green color and a weed-free appearance throughout the growing season. Fertilizers are essential to a healthy green lawn and overall curb appeal. Fertilizer helps your lawn stay healthy by promoting new leaf and root growth, aiding in recovery from foot traffic and pest damage, reducing and controlling weeds and weed control.


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How To Repair and Fix Some Common Sprinkler ProblemsPosted by: | Posted on:
The performance of the sprinkler system is of immense importance in ensuring that your plants are well watered while working in your lawn or garden. When anything happens to go astray with the sprinkler system, many people definitely tend to get worried about the amount of cash they will incur to have somebody fixing the problem. Well, from now on you will no longer have to worry anymore as the following information will guide you in carrying quick sprinkler repair. You can also call Hawaii Sprinklers for more information.
Sprinkler System Repair & Installation – Honolulu Oahu Hawaii
Some of the most common problems with sprinkler heads include spraying a geyser, failing to go back down as expected and breaking. When this is the case, it becomes important for you to replace it immediately to avoid further unwanted results. You first of all need to check the nozzle’s size, the manufacturer and the model size of the head as indicated on it so that you can easily get the its replacement. After buying a new head, you need to get down to work by digging round the head to create enough room. Unscrew all the nuts holding the broken head making sure that no dirt finds way into the sprinkler’s riser. Screw the new head in place and after running down water to test it and ensure its working after which you just need to fill the hole you had earlier dug.
Though it may seem a complex task to many, repairing a broken hose is quite a simple job that you can do on your own. You only need to first pay attention to where the water leakage is coming from though it may not be the actual area where the hose has broken. However, it will help in leading you to the exact section of the hose where the problem is, immediately you starting digging around. Once you have identified the broken area, measure the diameter of the pipe so that you will get the right replacement from local hardware stores. Cut the new pipe to a size-able length that will depend on the size of the damaged section of the old hose. Replace the damaged hose by simply cut it off and fixing the new with a sealant.
Make sure that the new pipe fits perfectly and one way of doing this is to ensure that you give the sealant about 15 minutes to dry for maximum results. Run the water before filling up the dug area with soil to ensure that everything is good once again.


North Country Distributors is located in Tonasket, Washington, in the foothills of the North Cascades, and in the Okanogan River Valley. At North Country Distributors, we sell landscape supplies, including Aged Sawdust, Bulk Soil, Peat Soil, Organic Compost, Potting Soil, Beauty Bark, Bonaparte Peat, and our unique soil amendment blends called Organic Com-Peat, and CannaSoil ® , which are both CERTIFIED ORGANIC BY WASHINGTON STATE.
Bonaparte Peat is hypnum peat from a high mountain bog in North Central Washington. Hypnum peat has a higher nitrogen level and a higher pH than other types of peat. Its pH factor is 6.0, whereas the pH of sphagnum peat is 3.8 – 4.5. Optimum pH for most plants is 6.2 to 6.8.
Com-Peat can be used in gardens, lawns, and in all types of tree plantings, both fruit trees and ornamentals. Com-Peat can be used for fruit tree replants, and new orchards.
CannaSoil ® is a unique soil amendment blended to maximize the growing of cannabis.
Our sawdust has been aged for 30 years. It is ideal for nursery use, and creating your own soil mix. It is also excellent for mulching blueberries.
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There are a lot of people that don’t have a need to trim grass, but they do have a bunch of weeds growing all over their yard and along fences that they would like removed. One of the best uses of a grass trimmer is to eat weeds, and for many people, this weedeating is the primary task of their trimmer.
Low quality grass trimmers are not very good weedeater trimmers, especially if the weeds are in tighter spots, like along fences or walls. A good weedeater trimmer needs to have a lot of mobility and power. It must allow you the flexibility and ease to put the trimmer cord in tighter spots, like at the very base of a fence or wall. It must also allow you to cut thought the larger bundled weeds without having to keep changing the cord due to it breaking or grinding down to nothing.
Many people buy the lower-end grass trimmers that they find on sale in their local department stores thinking that they won’t have any problems cutting down that dense weed growth along their fences and walls. Unfortunately, they’re usually very surprised to find that the trimmer cords that come with the trimmer are so fragile that they need constant replacement after 10 minutes of use. After going through 5 or 6 cords to complete a lousy trim job, many don’t look forward to getting it out again.
How can you control weed in your lawn
Weeds can be loosely defined as plants that are growing in the wrong place. Many weeds can be easily controlled and do little more than cause a nuisance to a gardener or landholder.
Here are some methods for controlling weeds:
Use of a Stirrup Hoe – The best method for controlling weeds is to use a stirrup hoe to cultivate the ground at least once a week. It doesn’t take much time to go out and work your hoe down each row, and by doing this, no weeds can grow because seedlings are uprooted or cut off before they have a chance.
Use of a Pitchfork – By using a pitchfork in a new and/or large bed with little or no existing plants, you will be able to get most of the roots of long rooted weeds.
Vinegar or Boiling Water – If you spot a weed growing in the sidewalk cracks of your sidewalk or in your driveway, try pouring boiling water or vinegar over them.
Mulch – Use lots of mulch. As long as mulch is applied thick enough to keep sunlight from reaching the soil, it will keep new weeds from sprouting.
Hand Picking – The best way to control weed is to hand pick them. Try to pick them before they flower to prevent them from going to seed and seeding themselves all over the yard. Also, be sure to get all the roots; as the weed will more than likely be back in a couple of weeks.
Choosing the best grass trimmers
Weed Eaters are common both in the Landscape Industry and in the home environment and should be utilized within manufacturer’s recommendations. All weed eaters basically have the same design, but come with a variety of power sources. Not only that, but they also come in different power ranges, sizes and prices.


Özgür Tarım, stepped into the sector in 1994, which is utilizing today’s needs reasonably and adopting the principle of benefiting the next generation from this potential effectively is proud of itself to be one of the five big companies that introduce the Turkish dried grape to the World.
Özgür Tarım’s corporate vision expresses the collective aspirations of the people who work here. It unifies us, directs our efforts and sets us apart from other companies.
Sultanas are produced from the Thompson Seedless variety grapes. Sultanas are extremely popular with their universal appeal as both a healthy snack and or ingredient base for baking.
Turkish Thompson Raisins are very popular in world markets with it’s similar taste and odour to Californian style although it’s reasonable prices.
Özgür Tarım Sultanas begin the journey from Manisa Vineyards. From the start, grapes are managed with extensive care to ensure the best raisin crop possible.
Sultanas, requiring lots of endeavor to be grown is a delicate fruit which necessitate manpower at all stages.
Sultanas are dipped in into a solution of water, potassium carbonate and olive oil, in order to fasten the drying process.
Özgür Tarım renovated its production lines and incorporated state of the art technologies with a level of precision and stability.
Özgür Tarım basic philosophy of quality assurance is to comply with the laws and regulations and to provide products and ingredients that are safe and of the highest quality.
Our company has ISO 22000 certified, and we are producing our products under HACCP food safety system.
Grape, requiring lots of endeavor to be grown is a delicate fruit which necessitate manpower at all stages. This hard process starts with a 3-year lasting period, beginning from seed planting to reaping the fruit. Grapevines, pruned carefully in January are bound to the 1,5 meter high sticks from ground. Healthy pruning and hanging operation generate good buds. The vineyard starts to bud with the first days of spring. The small bunches of grapes start to become apparent throughout March and at the beginning of April. These grapes get plump and grow during summertime with the attentive supervision of farmers and under the summer sun.
As the grape bunches grow up, the grapevines require more water to carry their increasing load. Farmers make plenty of and continuous root watering during this ripening period. Lush, filled and heavy grape bunches grow ripe to be harvested towards the end of August. The grapes, reached cutting ripeness are picked up carefully and subjected to the dipping treatment to keep their brightness and flavor.
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(i) Prior to Independence:
It may be pointed out that during the period 1901 to 1947, agricultural production declined.
The population rose by 38 per cent while the increase in cultivated area was to the extent of 18 percent. The annual output of food grains and pulses remained almost constant.
Pandse has made a special study of the yield of principal crops in India for the period between 1910-11 and 1945-46 and concluded that the yield per acre of cereals did not show any consistent decline or increase but there was a positive increase in the yield per acre of commercial crops and food-grains. He did not agree with the belief that there had been deterioration in fertility or in the standards of agriculture.
(ii) Post Independence Period:
The process of decline in productivity has continued in the post-independence period, as compared to the pre-1939 period. The average yield of cereals per acre during 1946-47 to 1949-50 had declined from 619 to 565 lbs. Rangnekar found that the volume of output in India declined from 0.9 metric tones in 1938-39 to 0.86 metric tones per hectare in 1951. Similar conclusion were reached by studies undertaken by ICAR and the Grow More Food Enquiries.
With the introduction of economic planning in 1951 and with the special emphasis on agriculture development, particularly after 1962, stagnant of agriculture was reversed as:
1. There was a steady rise in average yield per hectare.
2. There was a Steady rise in area under cultivation.
3. Due to increase in area and increase in yield per hectare, total production of the crops recorded a rising trend.
(iii) Trends in Food-grains Production:
The increase in agricultural production has an important impact on the economic development of a country. In India, the increase in the production of foodgrains has been given in table 2.
It reveals from table 2, that in the last fifty two years food-grains production has increased by about more than three times. The increase in the production of rice was four times while it was over nine times in respect of wheat. Here, it is worth noting that there exists wide variations in the production of food-grains.
During the course of first two five years plans, the production of food-grains was on the increase but in the third five year plan it has shown a declining trend. Further, in the course of three annual plans, production of food-grains has increased to a great extent. But in the subsequent five year plan periods, the rate of growth of agricultural production was favourable.
According to the first column of the table, the production of cereals was 468 lakh tones in 1949-50 which turned to double i.e. 947 lakh tones in fourth five year plan. During the sixth plan period, its production was recorded 1340 lakh tones and further 1719 lakh tones ending the last year of eighth five year plan.
The production of pulses was registered at 132 lakh tones in 1995-96 which was 110 lakh tones during first plan period. This crop witnessed very deep fluctuations during second and third plan period. Thus, total production of food-grains was recorded 648 lakh tones in first plan period which rose to 1047 lakh tones in fourth plan, 1232 lakh tones in fifth plan, 1462 lakh tones in sixth plan, 1706 lakh tones in seventh plan and 1851 lakh tones in 1995-96.
Regarding trend of rice and wheat, it was 276 lakh tones and 86 lakh tones in first plan which increased to 441 lakh tones and 218 lakh tones in fourth plan and further to 798 lakh tones and 628 lakh tones respectively in 1995- 96. During 2002-03, production of total food-grains 1742 lakh tones, pulses 111 lakh tones, rice 727 million tones and wheat 651 million tones.
This data indicates that production of food-grains has increased considerably over the years but in terms of percentage, increase in production varies from one plan period to another plan period.
(iv) Non-Food Grains:
The trends in non-food grains production in India after the introduction of economic planning is shown in table 3.
Table 3 is the evidence that during the course of five year plans, the production of non-food-grains has increased to a great extent. The production of cotton increased by two and a half times, three times of sugarcane, 3.3 times of oilseeds and 1½ times of jute. These crops have a great importance, in the field of international trade.
The production of cotton was 30 lakh bales in 1950-51 which increased to 80 lakh bales in 1980-81, 97 lakh bales in 1991-92 and 131 lakh bales in 1995-96. Regarding jute, its production was 33 lakh bales at the start of first five year plan in 1950-51 which rose to 68 lakh bales in 1980-81, 103 lakh bales in 1990-91 but its production reduced to 89 lakh bales in 1995-96.
The production of sugarcane has shown upward trend as it was 570 lakh tones in 1950-51, 1520 lakh tones in 1980-81, and 2540 lakh tones in 1991-92. At the close of eighth five year plan, its production was registered at 2829 lakh tones. In case of oil seeds, production was 186 lakh tones in 1990-91 against 50 lakh tones in 1950-51, and 101 lakh tones in 1980-81.
During 1995- 96, the production of oilseeds was recovered 224 lakh tones. Similarly, production of cotton, jute, sugarcane was 87,103 and 2816 lakh tones and production of oilseeds was 151 million tones in 2002-03.
The agricultural production depends not only on the area but also on the productivity of land. It shows the relationship between inputs and output.
The agricultural productivity can be classified into two categories viz;
(A) Agricultural Productivity per worker.
(B) Agricultural Productivity per hectare.
A. Agricultural Productivity per Worker:
In India, the productivity per worker is not only low but also differs from one state to other as is shown in table 5.
The above table 5 shows that the labour productivity is only Rs. 1213 per worker on the average for India as a whole. It is Rs. 3195 in Punjab, Rs. 1236 in U.P., Rs. 2922 in Haryana, Rs. 2072 in Kerala, Rs. 1707 in Assam and Rs. 1819 per worker in Kerala.
Per Worker-Agricultural Productivity: International Comparisons:
The per worker labour productivity in India is low as compared to some developed countries. According to Dr. Baljeet Singh, “In India per worker productivity forms 1/23 of that of U.S.A. and Japan and 1/21 of that in U.K.” The low level of per-worker productivity is an indicator of backward agriculture. However, a brief presentation of per worker productivity of different countries of the world has been made in table 6.
The above table 6 shows that India’s agricultural productivity per worker is a little more than one thirty fourth of West-Germany and less than one twentieth of England. The stagnation in agricultural productivity has resulted due to the increasing prices of agricultural produce, disapproving many theories of price production complexes and imperfect food distribution. However, productivity per worker for India was Rs. 1,213 while it was Rs. 18,120 for Japan, Rs. 19,264 for USA, Rs. 27,690 for West Germany.
B. Agricultural Productivity per Hectare:
The per hectare productivity has been analysed in two aspects as:
1. Per-hectare Productivity of Different Crops:
The trend of per hectare productivity of different crops has been analysed in the table 7.
The table 7 indicates that the per hectare productivity of rice in 1950-51 was 668 kgs. per hectare which in 1980-81 increased to 1336 kgs. and further 1804 kg. per hectare in 2002-03. The per-hectare productivity of wheat which was 663 kgs. in 1951 increased significantly to 1630 kg. per hectare in 1980-81 and 2613 kg. per hectare in 2002-03.
For maize, it was 1638 kgs per hectare in 2002-03 against 547 kgs per hectare in 1950-51. The per hectare productivity of sugarcane was recorded to be 65,000 kgs. in 2002-03 against 3342 kgs. in 1951. In case of cotton it rose to 193 kg. per hectare in 2002-03 against 88 kg. per hectare in 1950- 51. Regarding, Jute, it was 1043 kg. per hectare in 1950-51 which increased to 1130 kg. in 1980-81 and further 2154 kg. per hectare in 2002-03.
C. Some International Comparison of Productivity:
No doubt per hectare productivity in India has increased after the introduction of economic planning. But, if we compare it with developed countries it seems to be very low as has been shown in table 8.
The table 8 shows that the per hectare productivity of rice during 2000-01 in India is 1913 kgs. which in Japan is 6410 kgs. and in China it is 6320 kgs. Similarly, the productivity of wheat is 7240 kgs. in France and 7250 kgs. in U.K while in India it is much low i.e. 2553 kgs. per hectare. Similarly, productivity of cotton is very low as compared other advanced countries.


Food Tech Accelerator Bits x Bites Opens Applications
New Accelerator VC to Shake Up China’s Food System.
Bits x Bites, a new accelerator venture capital fund in China, has launched the country’s first accelerator program for food tech startups tackling food system challenges. By investing across the value chain from seed to table, it seeks to foster an ecosystem of purpose-and-profit companies to create a more sustainable food future.
The program is based in Shanghai, with the first cohort starting in February, 2017.
Bits x Bites is a big step forward to bring the good food innovation movement to China, with its focus to give food tech startups the capital, community, and coaching needed to thrive and achieve rapid growth. The program also seeks to challenge China’s entrepreneurs to offer new ideas for global food system issues.
“There is tremendous worldwide momentum to solve the pressing food system problems, from food security and safety to the environmental impact of food production. In this global mission that will take many different forms of solutions and collaboration, we believe food tech startups in China can play a big role and bring disruptive solutions,” says Matilda Ho, Bits x Bites founder who is a serial food entrepreneur and former business designer and consultant with IDEO and The Boston Consulting Group.
“The program offers a wonderful opportunity for startups to get immersed in the most important aspects in building a successful food business,” continues Ho.
Bits x Bites has identified four key investment areas: agriculture, food production, distribution and retail, as well as learning and sharing. It has engaged an expert community that lends deep industry access across the supply chain as well as business and domain expertise. Amongst its advisors and mentors are leaders from design innovation consultancy IDEO and Italy’s food ecosystem hub Future Food Institute, as well as a rich roster of startup founders, product designers, and engineers. Over its 120-day program, startups are coached towards product-market fit, using design thinking and lean startup methodologies to build companies from zero to one.
For more information about Bits x Bites, visit http://bitsxbites.com/
ABOUT BITS X BITES
Bits x Bites is China’s first food-centric accelerator and venture capital fund that invests in startups to shape the future of good food. It invests across the full supply chain, from agriculture and production to distribution and retail to learning and sharing. Over 120 days, Bits x Bites offers community, coaching, and capital to help startups build a sustainable purpose-and-profit business to tackle global food system challenges. Startups learn the essential skills to achieve product-market fit, refine business ideas, and bring world-class execution.


A Year Full of Veg is a month-by-month gardening guide to growing the best seasonal veg, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Year Full of Flowers.
With her wealth of experience, Sarah Raven shares the most reliable and bountiful varieties to grow, her tried-and-tested favourite crops, and unusual vegetables, herbs and salads that you can't buy in shops.
As well as planting inspiration, Sarah reveals expert tips and techniques for growing and harvesting flavourful crops from January
This full-colour photographic guide describes and illustrates more than 350 different species of common commercially imported flowers, foliages and potted flowers. The emphasis is on flowers that are commonly used in the cut flower industry and the book gives useful hints about the selection and handling of these flowers.
Brighten your garden all year round with a wide variety of bulbs.
Ideal for first-time gardeners, Grow Bulbs contains everything you need to bring year-round colour into your garden with bulbs. Learn how to plant, care for, and divide your bulbs, create stunning displays including naturalistic drifts and eye-catching containers, and choose from a huge range of bulbs, corms, and tubers with the book's handy seasonal directory.
Packed with practical, jargon-free know-how, this easy-to-use guide
The Field Guide to the Succulent Euphorbias of southern Africa by Alma Moeller and Rolf Becker is a pioneer publication on euphorbias in southern Africa. It is a beautifully illustrated, full colour identification guide that makes it easy for the layperson as well as anybody interested in the flora of southern Africa to identify a particular species.
A celebration of a beloved and uniquely British garden style featuring cottage gardens from around the country.
Features gardens created by famous writers including Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf and Beatrix Potter.
Succulents and rockery plants have become very popular for their ease of cultivation, spectacular diversity of shapes and sizes, striking colours, and waterwise characteristics. This scientifically accurate guide is aimed at assisting gardeners and horticulturalists to identify commonly used species from all over the world.


What are the medicinal health benefits of Acerola Cherry ? What is Acerola Cherry good for ?
Barbados cherry, also known as Acerola cherry, is a tropical plant. Although it is generally 2-3 m tall, some types can reach up to 6 m tall. Due to being a tropical climate plant, it suffers from cold below minus 2 degrees and the plant dies. It has the ability to grow better in acidic soils. It is recommended that those who grow this fruit grow regularly in dry periods in order to increase the yield.
Barbados cherries (acerola cherries) are bright red. Its leaves are bright and dark green. Fruits have 3 wide rounded edges and the seeds are located in the center. Fruit flesh is yellow. Its fruits are a full store of vitamin C. The main purpose of growing the plant is that it has a very rich structure in terms of vitamin C.
What are the health benefits of Acerola cherry ?
- Acerola cherry, which is beneficial on eye health, improves the eyesight quality.
- Acerola cherry provides protection against colds such as flu and cold with its high amount of vitamin C.
- Acerola cherry strengthens the immune system.
- Barbados cherry, which diabetes patients can use easily, keeps blood sugar levels in balance.
- Acerola cherry helps the body fight free radicals because it contains high levels of antioxidants. It protects the health of the skin and has anti-aging feature.
- It provides protection against cancer.
- It has diuretic properties.
- The ingredient named pectin helps the digestive system. It protects the intestines. It also helps to lower cholesterol level thanks to this substance.


One of the biggest challenges growers face when growing crops is controlling pests. By using pesticides, growers can effectively eradicate pests and keep their crops healthy and production high. Unfortunately, some pests are resistant to pesticides, meaning that growers need to resort to other means to control them. One such means is soil injection with pesticides; it’s a technique that has been used for many years to control pests in crop fields. In this blog post, we will explore the basics of soil injection with pesticides and help you understand how it works and why it’s important for growers. We will also provide a guide on how to choose the best pesticide for your crop, based on its pest profile and location.
What are pesticide soil injectors?
Pesticide soil injectors are machines used to introduce a pesticide into the ground. This allows the pesticide to be more effective and reach areas that it would not be able to reach on its own.
How do they work?
Soil injectors are a type of pesticide applicator that uses pressurized gas to dispense pesticides into the soil. They are often used to treat large areas quickly and accurately. Soil injectors come in different sizes and styles, and can be used with a variety of pesticides.
Benefits of using a pesticide soil injector
There are many benefits to using a pesticide soil injector. They can be used to precisely apply pesticides to a target area, reducing the amount of product that is wasted and the risk of drift. Additionally, they can increase the effectiveness of pesticides by allowing them to reach deeper into the soil where they are more likely to be effective.
Drawbacks to using a pesticide soil injector
There are several potential drawbacks to using a pesticide soil injector. First, the process is time-consuming and labor-intensive, which may not be suitable for large acreages. Second, there is the risk of damaging the environment or people if the injector is not properly used or if the dosage is too high. Third, pesticide soil injectors are not typically effective in areas with dense vegetation or in soils that are poorly aerated. Finally, some pesticides can damage beneficial insects and other organisms in the soil, which can lead to reduced crop yields.
Pesticide soil injectors are a critical piece of equipment for any agricultural operation. They allow farmers to apply pesticides and fertilizers directly to the surface of the soil, where they are most effective and minimally harmful to the environment. Thanks to modern technology, pesticide soil injectors can be used in a wide variety of applications, from small plots of land to large-scale farming operations. If you’re looking for an investment that will improve your bottom line, look into purchasing a pesticide soil injector.
Advantages of using pesticide soil injectors
There are many advantages to using pesticide soil injectors when applying pesticides. They are fast and efficient, allowing you to apply more doses of the pesticide in a shorter period of time. They also allow you to target specific areas, making them ideal for use in fields or around plants.
Disadvantages of using pesticide soil injectors
Pesticide soil injectors can be a useful tool for managing pesticide applications, but there are some potential disadvantages. These devices can be expensive to operate and maintain, and they may not always be effective in controlling pests. Additionally, pesticide soil injectors can produce unwanted side effects in nearby plants.


JD.com which is a global retailer and the largest in China has entered a partnership with Mitsubishi Chemical. Mitsubishi Chemical is a chemical manufacturing plant owned by the Japanese. The two have come together to open a hydroponic plant factory in the city of China. The main purpose of this plant factory is to use advanced and cutting-edge technology in the field of agriculture and also utilize JD’s retail infrastructure. The plant factory occupies close to eleven thousand and forty square meters and uses a hydroponic culturing system. The factory also uses solar light, and the seedling environment is closed and uses artificial light. The factory currently produces an array of products that include cabbage, spinach, lettuce and coriander among others. JD.com prides itself in producing quality food options that are nutritious and great healthy options to their customers. JD.com wants to ensure that their customers are getting the fresh produce that is safe and is of premium quality.
JD.com will provide these options to their customers both offline and online and at the 7FRESH stores belonging to JD.com. JD.com is aware that nowadays customers want transparency when it comes to the products that they buy and this they do by tracking the crops from the time they are planted up to delivery. The food market in China, for example, value food safety and puts it as a top priority when purchasing food products. This is because there is a high increase in environmental problems and deterioration as well as the overuse of fertilizers. This new factory will be environmentally friendly to ensure that the growing population in China is fed while not causing any harm to the soil. The JD.com factory ensures a standardized production of food crops that are of premium quality by a management system that controls the humidity, temperature, liquid fertilizer and light automatically.
The JD.com factory can produce a higher number of vegetables than any other system, and all their vegetables will be available on JD.com and 7FRESH. This marks the company’s entry into the fresh produce industry, and they guarantee that the fresh products are treated with uttermost care.


Agriculture is our state’s prime business and is accountable for 1 in 6 jobs in North Carolina. But, this necessary business is underneath stress. Yearly we lose farmland to improvement, and we additionally face generational challenges as the typical age of a farmer in our state at the moment is 58 years previous.
Aspiring younger farmers are enrolling in highschool and faculty applications to pursue their educational training in agriculture. The scholars are on the market nevertheless, entry to working farms is usually restricted to those that come from farming households. Furthermore, entry to hands-on coaching within the rising strategies of regenerative farming is extraordinarily restricted. Younger farmers are hungry to contribute new options to the challenges going through the agricultural business, they simply want extra alternatives to study and discover brilliant futures in farming.
What’s the Piedmont Agriculture Students Program?
The Piedmont Agriculture Students Program is a two-day agricultural seminar developed by the Juneberry Schooling Basis for choose pupil students from excessive colleges throughout North Carolina to take part in hands-on and immersive agricultural coaching on a regenerative farm.
Scholar students will likely be launched to all areas of regenerative farming at Juneberry Ridge, a 750-acre working farm in Norwood, N.C. College students will attend lectures and acquire hands-on farm expertise associated to soil well being, water administration, wildlife, aquaponics, farm-to-table hospitality, and extra. This system offers room and board for accepted college students.
Scholar students should obtain a nomination from a instructor/educator.
Nomination Type: Submit Scholar Scholar Nomination On-line Right here
Nomination Deadline: Open from January 8 to deadline February 9, 2024. Software Course of: Nominated college students will obtain an e-mail invitation from the Juneberry Schooling Basis to fill out a pupil software due on or earlier than March 1, 2024.
Our program is in search of brilliant, upstanding, and enthusiastic highschool juniors and seniors with the next standards:
• 3.0 GPA or greater enrolled in a North Carolina Excessive College (Junior or Senior)
• Curiosity in regenerative agriculture, farming, and/or agribusiness
Why give attention to inspiring younger farmers?
“If we fail to encourage younger farmers at the moment, it’s solely a matter of time earlier than we lose our farmland together with prime quality native meals manufacturing proper right here in North Carolina. So, how can we encourage the subsequent technology? Our reply is to offer the farmers of tomorrow with the absolute best training in regenerative farming. We designed the Piedmont Agricultural Students Program as a name out to our brightest younger minds, to convey them out to our residing classroom, to indicate them how we farm, and invite them to examine a brighter future for meals manufacturing with us.” – Suzanne Durkee, President, Juneberry Schooling Basis
Concerning the Juneberry Schooling Basis (edu.juneberry.com)
We envision a future the place our meals programs grow to be extra resilient over time, not much less so. That is attainable after we empower farmers and customers with data, instruments, and practices that take complete contexts into consideration to develop stronger farming ecosystems. Complete contexts are those who combine constructive agricultural practices with long- and short-range outcomes for our soil, water, crops, livestock, wildlife, farmers, and native communities.
Our mission is to encourage present and future farmers to reimagine the agricultural panorama in North Carolina by the research, analysis, and real-world software of regenerative farming.
Positioned in Norwood, N.C., the Basis is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit public charity established in 2022 with funding assist from the North Carolina state legislature and personal donors. Overseen by the North Carolina Division of Agriculture and Client Providers, the Basis affords immersive farming internships and accredited coaching in addition to hands-on studying and farm workshops for future farmers, together with faculty and highschool college students. The inspiration is actively working to enhance our native meals programs by offering training and hands-on coaching in regenerative agriculture. Core to our instructional mission is a give attention to strategies to develop meals domestically whereas contributing to lengthy vary outcomes for soil well being restoration, group vitality, and financial prosperity for agricultural companies proper right here in North Carolina.
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We empower present and aspiring farmers in North Carolina with future-minded data and instruments in regenerative farming. In mild of latest threats and tendencies going through agriculture, we provide a recent strategy to farming that follows pure processes to develop wholesome meals whereas bettering group resiliency in its complete context. Pure processes are those who permit farmers to keep away from or remove completely typical dependance on artificial chemical compounds of their farming programs.
We consider farming strategies should evolve to think about the entire context of rising meals by wholesome means. Sustainability practices don’t go far sufficient. The Juneberry Schooling Basis affords training within the rising apply of regenerative farming. We give attention to bettering soil well being and biodiversity in order that farmers can feed communities whereas revitalizing whole ecosystems. By inspiring younger farmers to domesticate a regenerative path for native meals manufacturing, our basis helps be certain that the land and those that work it’s going to thrive for generations to come back.


ROOTS, RICE & BEANS
We have the opportunity to grow our own food using sustainable agricultural techniques, working with Stadsgroenteboer and many other farms around the country. By using ingredients that are in our surroundings we create delicious products to inspire and encourage others to cook and create awareness of our food choices. Collaborating with other farmers and entrepreneurs in and around Amsterdam helps us to create a space to reconnect with nature, sharing knowledge and understanding where our food is coming from.
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ROOTS, RICE & BEANS PRESENTS: HERBANO
HERBANO was started during the first Corona lock-down in spring 2020. When we saw that our farmer colleagues that focussed on selling to restaurants all of a sudden found it challenging to sell their produce we decided to take action. In order to support these local farmers and prevent food waste we started to buy their surplus and turned them into delicious, plant based and organic preserves. That is how HERBANO was born; transforming a problem into a solution.
By buying produce from small scale and regenerative farms you support sustainable farming practices, circularity and an environment where the farmers receive a fair price. Our whole production is hand made in small batches so you can enjoy delicious food while supporting a more responsible and sustainable way of eating.
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Farm equipment sales typically follow farm commodity prices. When farmers can sell their crop at a higher price, naturally they have more money to upgrade their equipment to become more efficient. It’s simple economics.
But what happens when the companies manufacturing new, cutting-edge tractors, planters and harvesters can’t build farm equipment because a global pandemic shakes up manufacturing supply chains? What happens when there’s a shortage of rubber for tires, steel for frames and axles, and tiny microchips that control performance? That’s a different level of economics that farm equipment manufacturers, farm equipment dealers and farmers themselves are all trying to understand.
Demand side: Pent-up demand for farm equipment from farmers
With prices for corn, soybeans, wheat and other commodity crops remaining stagnant over the past six years, farmers have been hesitant to make big purchases like new tractors, planters and combines. Instead, many have opted to extend the use of their older equipment. But with commodity prices coming back stronger than expected over the past year, farmers are now in a better financial position, allowing them to update their equipment. In fact, according to reports by the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM):
- Tractor sales are up almost 26% through May of 2021.
- Combines sales are up 13% compared to the same time period in 2020.
- Sales over the past year have been above the five-year average, indicating farmers are now acting on pent-up demand for equipment.
Internationally, ag equipment unit sales are expected to continue rising around the globe through at least 2023. After growing 5% internationally from 2019 to 2020, most regions of the world are expected to continue seeing growth. For example, increases in tractor sales in the first five months of 2021 compared to 2020 are up in the following countries:
- Canada (Up 52%)
- Germany (Up 34%)
- United Kingdom (Up 21%)
Farm equipment sales could be even stronger were it not for struggles manufacturers are facing in keeping up with production. Many are still playing catchup due to COVID-related factory closings and production slowdowns due to labor shortages. But possibly the biggest unresolved problem for equipment manufacturers is disrupted worldwide supply chains that are making it hard to acquire the components needed to build the equipment.
Supply side: Supply chain disruptions that slow manufacturing
Most farm equipment requires hundreds of component parts made of steel, rubber, glass, plastic, electronics, lubricants and more. The average tractor itself is made up of more than 1,700 different components. Over the past few decades, manufacturers, looking to improve cash flow and be more efficient with their resources, have moved toward a just-in-time delivery of raw materials and component parts from their suppliers. This works great as long as manufacturing supply chains are predictable. But if even one part of the supply chain fails, manufacturers aren’t able to deliver product.
COVID-19 has been the biggest catalyst to supply chain breakdowns for farm equipment manufacturers over the past 18 months. Factories that supply raw materials and components have had to shut down or curtail production significantly because of government interventions and a labor force that has juggled temporary layoffs, illness and family needs. Steel, which makes up approximately 70% of farm equipment, saw a decline to 50% production capacity early in the pandemic according to the American Iron and Steel Institute. Less steel leads to less capacity to build farm equipment.
More recently, decreased production and increased competition for microprocessor chips from other industries —including the auto industry, video games and electronics suppliers — have impacted farm equipment. As farmers have adapted to precision technology and telematics — the computers that help them operate — their equipment has become more reliant on electronics. In a recent poll by Farm Equipment Magazine, 88% of respondents expressed concern that the lack of chips would cause farm equipment inventory challenges. To add to the concern, Intel’s CEO was quoted as saying he expects it might take 6 to 9 months to boost production of the chips and that the current shortage could extend for a couple years.
Rubber, used in tires and belts, is also seeing supplies tighten as a result of a variety of issues, including production challenges in Asia where most of the raw material is produced, a lack of shipping containers globally and this spring’s bottleneck in the Suez Canal. China’s efforts to stockpile rubber in anticipation of a shortage has also caused disruptions that will likely extend into the short term.
Factory fires and hurricane Laura caused large petrochemical facilities in Texas and Louisiana — some of the world’s biggest producers of petroleum-based plastic inputs — to reduce production. The abnormally hard winter freeze across Texas also shut down electric utilities for weeks, causing a shortage of raw materials used by companies that produce plastic parts for farm equipment. As a result, normalized production levels for plastic parts and components could take months.
What equipment dealers and farmers should consider
With farm equipment facing a shortage due to parts scarcity that could extend for months and possibly more than a year, farmers and farm equipment dealers are starting to make changes that will help them into the future.
“I think the best dealers are thinking in advance rather than waiting to make the sale,” said Ken Whitelaw, global head of Program Management, Food and Agriculture at DLL. “They’re managing the relationship. It’s not just a transaction anymore. Dealers are changing their mindset and thinking about the needs of their customers further into the future and how they can continue to be involved along the way.”
In many cases, dealers now are working with customers who won’t see the equipment they want for six months or longer. Dealers are looking for creative ways to facilitate a deal — including taking advantage of early-order programs offered by manufacturers and working on creative trade and financing options.
“We’re finding ourselves helping dealers and farmers book deals before the equipment is delivered,” said Whitelaw. “It helps the farmer with peace of mind that their equipment is on order with a delivery date, and it helps the dealer because it gives them the opportunity to sell their customer’s trade sooner than they normally would.”
Taking a new look at technology
From a farm equipment dealer standpoint, the past year has seen the use of technology accelerate both facilitating sales and developing customer relationships.
“We literally had customers buying tractors from dealers that were physically closed due to local government mandates,” said Whitelaw. “Everything went online. Farmers could download their contracts with dealers and dealers could do a socially distanced delivery. Dealers learned that technology could make it easier and more convenient for the customer.”
Technology and the drive to build customer relationships has also opened the eyes of dealers looking to provide a deeper level of service.
“I think the technology thing is really key. If I’m running a dealership, I’m now asking myself, ‘How do I position myself to service my customers?’ — whether I’m the seller of the equipment or not,” said Thomas Casey, vice president of Asset Management, Food and Agriculture at DLL. “It’s one thing to sell the asset, but can they play a bigger part from a service standpoint? How can they stay connected to the equipment and the customer and be a service provider on the technology side? I think the current environment has just opened people’s eyes to embracing technology.”
In the future, that might mean helping customers consider options that are not as common in today’s farm equipment market, but it may also evolve in the near future. With dealers lacking farm equipment inventory today, manufacturers are likely to encourage dealers to do a better job of stocking equipment as production levels improve and not rely as much on being able to order from factory stock and have it delivered in a week. Additional inventory on dealer lots may also create different revenue streams.
“There’s never been much rental and rental fleet activity in the ag industry,” said Casey. “I think maybe it will be a reactionary thing, but I see that as a bigger opportunity for additional revenue for dealers and possibly manufacturers.”
With the jury still out on how long it will take for supply chains to get back to normal across the globe, the impact of the disruptions over the past year have brought light to opportunities for ag equipment dealers and manufacturers. Which of these opportunities will stick around over the long term is yet to be seen.
“One of the advantages of being a global company is we have a footprint across more than 30 countries,” said Whitelaw. “In times like these, where things are unpredictable and changing, having that global perspective can be an advantage. Seeing how supply chains are working. Seeing how dealers and manufacturers are adjusting in different countries. Those are insights we can bring to our customers, along with solutions to support them, that can put our customers at an advantage.”


CapeOrganic, a specialty fertilizer…
This product is registered annually with the Department of Agriculture as a specialty fertilizer and the composting process is permitted and regularly monitored by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. The absence of industry in Cape May County results in a bio solids product where heavy metals and other contaminants are not a concern. The USEPA has classified Cape May County’s bio solids as being of “Exceptional Quality”. Deters fungus growth.
This product is intended for uses such as lawns, shrubbery, flowers, golf courses, landscaping, sod crops, and agronomic crops.
CapeOrganic is an economical substitute for products such as peat moss, chemical fertilizer, and commercial mulches. More than one hundred local contractors, landscapers and government agencies are regular customers for CapeOrganic . The consensus among our customers is that CapeOrganic is one of the best soil supplements available anywhere.
Topdressing, especially in conjunction with de-thatching or aeration and reseeding, is an excellent way to rejuvenate older turf, and insure lush growth. CapeOrganic ’s high organic content helps retain moisture.
For athletic fields, parks, golf courses, or other large grass areas, the Authority has a Millcreek® Brand topdressing machine available for rent. Pulled by a tractor, this 2-cubic yard capacity machine can quickly and efficiently apply
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How John Deere is leveraging AI, IoT and data analytics?
John Deere is a global leader in agricultural machinery manufacturing and for many of us, this name recalls bright green and yellow tractors. Over the past two decades, Deere has made significant investments in building its internal capabilities around data science and analytics. The company’s acquisition of Blue River Technology in 2017 is now empowering its entrance into AI and computer vision to see and measure data on individual crops with the goal of autonomous decision-making. This has helped them transform from a pure equipment manufacturer into a data-driven technological manufacturing company. Their vision is to improve customer productivity and help to deliver more value to farmers, helping them to collect data and harness it for improved farm management.
The John Deere Operations Center delivers value to farmers with tools and features that enable them to easily access farm information to better manage their daily operations. Through dashboards farmers can see what is happening real time, analyze performance, and collaborate with partners to gain insights, increase profits, and direct their plans with more precision in the field.
All types of data e.g. fuel level, location, machine hours, is collected primarily from sensors embedded both in the machines and in the field (soil), and also pulled from external sources e.g., weather prediction data, commodity pricing. Data is then automatically uploaded onto the cloud via the cellular network, Wi-fi, or Bluetooth. Farmers can access and manage the data through the MyJohnDeere.com portal. Through an app, farmers can monitor activity in real-time, analyze performance, determine how best to utilize equipment, and collaborate with partners for insights that help the farmer decide what to plant, where and when with the optimized condition. The value created for farmers is improved productivity, increased efficiency, improved operations, decreased downtime, and reduced costs to ultimately maximize profitability.
(Dashboards on tractors displaying information. Source: Deere.com)
Blue River Technology has developed a solution using advanced machine learning algorithms to enable robots to make decisions, based on visual data about whether or not a plant is a pest, and then deliver an accurate, measured blast of chemical pesticides to tackle the unwanted pests.
The aggregate machine data is also used for predictive maintenance by Deere to find patterns that indicate a machine or sensor problems and notify failures in advance. Remote diagnostics save time and money from technician visits and reduced downtime. Deere also used the data internally to improve product quality, enhancements, as well as to advise the next generation of new product and service development.
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- Why Choose Crop Production?
- LBCC Student Organic Farm
Why Should You Choose Crop Production?
The Crop Production program combines classroom teaching and hands-on learning to develop the skills students need to manage field crops and the soils that sustains these crops. Students enroll in an Associate of Applied Science (AAS) professional-technical degree. This degree is designed for students who will start a job in the agricultural industry. A crop production degree enables students to find jobs in Agronomy, Farm Management, Agricultural Supplies, Pest Management and Natural Resources Conservation.
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LBCC Student Organic Farm
Established in the Spring of 2004, the organic garden covers nearly two acres. The crops are planted, tended, and harvested by LBCC students. During the school year, the produce is prepared and served in the LBCC restaurants, while over the summer, a student-run courtyard market offers fresh-picked produce to students and staff.
The farm is divided into fields in which spring, summer, fall, and winter crops are raised. Students use methods such as crop rotation, inter-cropping, cover cropping, and the incorporation of organic matter to maintain soil fertility and ecological diversity. These practices support non-toxic sustainable production and protect crops against plant diseases and insect pests.
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Applications for our 2023 Gardens for Good Program are Now Closed. Public Voting is Open June 12 – 25.
At Nature’s Path, we believe in the power of community gardens to plant it forward® by alleviating food security and creating a positive social impact on the communities in which they are grown. Since 2010, our Gardens for Good program has donated over $615,000 to 74 community gardens supporting the organic movement and investing in a flourishing future for their families and neighbors.
With food insecurity on the rise across North America and research indicating community gardens can lower household food security concerns by up to 90%, Nature’s Path is increasing donation efforts from previous years, awarding each community garden winner $7,500 for more impactful outcomes for the gardeners.
How to Support:
Once all applications are received, you can learn more about the community gardens and vote for the applicant of your choice, strengthening their chances of winning $7,500 in grant money. By voting, you are putting money directly into the hands of deserving, organic gardeners, lowering household food security concerns and empowering positive community growth.
Winner Selection Process:
Every year we receive so many deserving garden applications, so how do we choose the final 15 winners? To select the winners, we consider both the number of votes your garden receives (during the voting phase) and conduct an internal evaluation of your application based on our 3 criteria (outlined in the rules & regulations).
Over the years we’ve donated over $615,000 in grant money to over 74 gardens across North America. Here are just a few examples of our previous winners and their inspiring garden projects.
- Bowman Elementary’s Urban Garden Program – Anchorage, AK
- Chelsea Urban Farm – Chelsea, MA
- Cultivating Change at 509 Hanson! – Whitehorse, YU
- Deep Roots – Earleville, MD
- Downtown Eastside Urban Farm – Vancouver, BC
- Green Acre Community Garden – Paterson, NJ
- Healthy for Life Garden Program – Rapid City, SD
- Indigenous Roots Forever – Pawcatuck, CT
- Jardin communautaire de Shippagan – Shippagan, NB
- Maple Alley Inn Community Garden – Bellingham, WA
- Michigan Urban Farming Initiative – Detroit, MI
- New Start Community Garden – Burien, WA
- Pitney Meadows Community Gardens – Saratoga Springs, NY
- Project Sweetie Pie – Minneapolis, MN
- The Everybody Eats Together Garden – Atlanta, GA
- The Grove Garden Project – St. Louis, MO
- Tsi’thotuhutsya:te (The Creators Land) – Oneida Nation of the Thames, ON
- Variety Garden and Greenhouse – Worcester, PA
- VEG (Valleycliffe Edible Garden) and Beyond – Squamish, BC
- West Broad Street YMCA Garden – Savannah, GA
- West Island Mission – Food Bank – Pointe-Claire, QC
- YES Prep Public Schools – North Forest Elementary – Houston, TX
- AfriThrive Garden – Silver Spring, MD
- Alief Community Garden – Houston, TX
- Arcata Community Health and Wellness Garden – Arcata, CA
- Arma Community Garden – Arma, KS
- Ashamaawaso (s/he feeds a child) – London, ON
- Black Urban Farmers Association – French Camp, CA
- Cheyenne River Youth Project Winyan Toka Win Garden – Eagle Butte, SD
- Cowichan Green Community’s The Inclusion Garden – Duncan, BC
- Food Strong Learning Garden – East Cleveland, OH
- Galiano School Garden – Galiano Island, BC
- Gardeneers Piccolo School Garden – Chicago, IL
- Harris Health System’s LBJ Hospital Community Farm – Houston, TX
- Jubilee Community Garden Society – Duncan, BC
- Manna Meal Community Garden – Charleston, WV
- Mohawk Seedkeepers – Ohsweken, ON
- Odyssey Charter School Garden – Wilmington, DE
- Painted Turtle Farm – Gettysburg, PA
- South Los Angeles Community Farm – Los Angeles, CA
- The Ben Jones Community Garden at The HUUB – Orange, NJ
- The Gathering Place Garden – St. John’s, NL
- The Healing Garden at Ferry Lane Farm – Simsbury, CT
- Trellis for Tomorrow – Phoenixville, PA
- The YAM Project – in Sudbury, Ontario
- Growing Roots – in Pomona, California
- Garden Joy – in Ripon, California
Austin Discovery School
Austin Discovery School is an academically rigorous public charter school dedicated to building compassion, collaboration and critical thinking by engaging students with the natural world. In their EcoWellness Program, children learn environmental stewardship, gardening skills, science, and how to care for creatures we share this land with. The program includes dedicated staff, gardens and tended farm animals.
The Giving Teaching Garden
St Louisville, KY (at Shawnee People’s Garden, supported by Louisville Grows)
Shawnee People’s Garden was once an empty city lot in the middle of an urban food desert. But then citizens and local non-profit, Louisville Grows, transformed it to an oasis of organic greens. Among its gardeners was BJ Jones, who distributed his crops to folks in need. With Gardens for Good, Jones’ donations have grown and its founders now instruct others how to garden and how to create community gardens in other Louisville food deserts.
Occupy Madison Village Gardens
In response to mass homelessness and food insecurity, Occupy Madison set out to provide shelter for those in need. Building 99 square foot houses resulted in the first tiny homes village integrated within a U.S. neighborhood, and it’s still going strong. Within the village, the project grows its own food to sustain and connect the community.
St. Mary’s Foundation for Children
Bayside, New York
As New York’s first children’s hospital, St. Mary’s Foundation for Children aims to brighten up the days of its nearly 2,000 patients. Providing long-term health, the hospital teaches its children about gardening and healthy eating. With the help of Good for Gardens, the hospital aims to collaborate with more local schools and youth-based groups. Together they take part in urban farming on a dedicated one-acre plot of land.
The Growing Chefs! Classroom Gardening Program
The Growing Chefs! Program allows children to learn about the origins of food and the benefits of eating well, in a fun way. With volunteer chefs at hand, young students learn everything from planting seeds, growing, and harvesting, to cooking a meal with them. It has been running for more than a decade with schools across British Columbia clamoring to join. The program hopes to include more schools to teach the value of eating sustainably.
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Kahului, Hawaii (Hāli’imaile Community Garden)
The Goodwill Garden is dedicated to building food sustainability in a place where one out of seven people go hungry. The gardening space is in Kahului, Hawaii as part of a larger project whose goal is to provide access to fresh produce. The vegetables grown are donated weekly to food banks, which results in several hundred pounds of produce each month. The project serves all Maui, where 18,600 residents seek help from food banks.
The Table Community Garden
Since 2012, the Table Community Garden has been the second affiliate Community Food Centre, offering access to healthy foods. Its nickname the Good Food Bank is what separates it from others. The project offers a variety of fresh products to support healthy and fresh food choices that often come from its own garden. Aside from providing free produce, the project also runs cooking and gardening lessons.
Oliver’s Food Project
Oliver’s Food Project sprouted from curiosity when two siblings saw children rummaging through the recycling. The siblings Oliver and Piper’s mother explained the children were doing so to get money for food. This idea did not sit well with Oliver, who then created the garden project in Hamilton, Ontario. The family began selling their vegetables, where 100 per cent of sales went straight to local youth charities. The project has since expanded across five more gardens within their neighborhood.
Sole Food Street Farms
Sole Food Street Farm is the brain child from a group of residents in one of North America’s worst urban slums. To help address the problems in their neighborhood, a group of residents created an urban farm, from a vacant contaminated plot of land. The project’s mission is to empower those with limited resources, giving jobs and agricultural training for those managing addiction and, chronic and mental health issues.


Trucks transporting sugar cane to a
Cosan mill, Brazil.
The number of cars on the road is expected to triple to 2 billion by 2050. There are likely to be twice as many trucks then as now. Sustainable biofuels are expected to play an increasingly important role in helping to meet customers’ fuel needs and reduce CO2 emissions.
The international market for biofuels is growing, due largely to the introduction of new energy policies in Europe and the USA that call for more renewable, lower-carbon fuels for transport. Today, biofuels make up around 3% of the global road transport fuel mix. This is expected to rise to 9% by 2030.
In 2010, Shell sold 9.6 billion litres of biofuels in petrol or diesel blends. We are one of the world’s largest distributors. We are now investing in the production of the lowest CO2, most sustainable and cost-competitive of today’s biofuels – Brazilian sugar-cane ethanol. This can reduce CO2 emissions by around 70% compared to petrol. In 2010, we agreed to form the $12 billion Raízen joint venture with Cosan, Brazil’s largest producer of ethanol. We also continue to invest in developing advanced biofuels for the future.
Today’s biofuels pose some sustainability challenges. From cultivation to production to use, some biofuels can emit significantly less CO2 than conventional fuels. But the CO2 benefits of biofuels vary depending on factors including the raw materials used, and how they are processed and distributed.
If land used for biofuels crops is not carefully managed, concerns can arise over competing directly with food crops or displacing these crops into sensitive areas, such as forests rich in biodiversity. Other challenges include contested land ownership, labour rights, and the water used in producing biomass and processing some biofuels.
We support international certification schemes that require biofuels to come from sustainable sources. We have also been introducing our own sustainability clauses into new and renewed supplier contracts since 2007. These clauses require suppliers to respect human rights in the production of their biomass and biofuels. They also require suppliers not to cultivate, produce or manufacture biofuels in areas rich in biodiversity. Suppliers must be able to trace supply chains, and they must belong to relevant international bodies promoting sustainable biomass production. In 2010, 83% of the volume of biofuels we purchased was from suppliers signed up to these clauses.
We are working with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to learn more about helping to protect areas rich in animal and plant life. We have been working to influence the industry to adopt more sustainable biofuel production processes. In 2010, we developed a joint approach to encourage governments to recognise and offer financial incentives for better management of land use. We have been engaging with other energy companies and environmental non-governmental organisations – such as WWF and Conservation International – to investigate ways to promote sustainable production of biofuel crops on underused land, without displacing existing farming activities to other areas.
We also work with industry, governments and voluntary organisations towards the development of global sustainability standards for biofuels. We are active in a number of roundtable organisations that have developed sustainability certification schemes. For example, we belong to Bonsucro, formerly the Better Sugar Cane Initiative, which works to reduce environmental and social impacts of sugar-cane production. Bonsucro has developed industry standards for the certification of biofuels from sugar cane.
Soy and palm oil accounted for less than 5% of the biofuels we bought in 2010. We take part in the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), which checks and approves claims for sustainable palm oil production and assures the transparency and traceability of supply chains. We are also a member of the Roundtable on Responsible Soy, which promotes responsible soy production and has been developing a certification system for use from 2011.
Producing low-carbon biofuels
Brazilian sugar-cane ethanol is the most sustainable biofuel available today. From cultivation through to use, it produces less CO2 than any other commercially available biofuel. Our partnership with Brazilian company Cosan is our first involvement in producing biofuels on a large scale. The Raízen joint venture, to be finalised in 2011, will have the capacity to produce over 2 billion litres of sugar-cane ethanol a year, with significant potential to grow.
Sugar cane used in the process is grown on land hundreds of kilometres from the Amazon rainforest. Shell supports the work of the Brazilian government to implement effective land use policies and address concerns over sugar-cane production displacing other crops to areas rich in biodiversity. We also support government efforts to protect the land rights of indigenous peoples.
Cosan’s approach uses waste material from sugar cane to power its own plants, delivering electricity it does not need to the national grid. This further reduces overall CO2 emissions from the process.
Brazilian sugar cane needs virtually no irrigation to grow because of high seasonal rainfall. With recycling, the production process uses around 10 litres of water to produce each litre of ethanol. In 2010, Cosan recycled about 90% of the water used in 19 of its 23 mills, and there are plans to install the same technology in the remaining mills by 2013. New technology that air dries sugar cane is also reducing the need for water.
Cosan uses liquid derived from the crushed cane as natural fertiliser on its land. Other residues from filtering the cane and ash left from burning cane for power are also used to nourish the soil, limiting the use of chemical fertilisers.
Cosan is planning to phase out most of its manual harvesting by 2014 in advance of São Paulo state requirements. Mechanical harvesting is more efficient and removes the need for first burning the straw from the cane. Cosan is training some staff for new opportunities under mechanisation, as well as to gain new skills for employment elsewhere.
As part of our agreement with Cosan, we have drawn up a series of robust sustainability standards and procedures that must be followed. They include sound land, water management and labour practices. In the coming years, Raízen aims to have its mills and all ethanol produced from its own sugar cane certified under the Bonsucro scheme. It also plans to have certified all ethanol produced from suppliers’ sugar cane.
Raízen will include our interest in Codexis and part of our interest in Iogen Energy – two advanced biofuels ventures. We expect Raízen to provide plant residue for feedstock, power, and technical expertise, which could help these advanced biofuels processes achieve commercial scale.
FUELS FOR THE FUTURE
Shell was one of the first energy companies to invest in developing advanced biofuels from non-edible plants and crop waste. We continue to invest in a range of projects, but scaling up the technology from the laboratory to commercial viability can take many years. Not all projects will succeed in becoming technically and commercially viable.
In our work to develop advanced biofuels we have partnerships with leading biotechnology companies and academic institutions. With Iogen Energy, a Canadian company, we are developing technology that uses enzymes to break down the cellulose in plant walls and turn it into sugars. These are then fermented and distilled into ethanol. Iogen Energy opened a demonstration plant in Ottawa in 2004, which produced over 430,000 litres in 2010. We continue to make progress towards possible investment in a full-scale commercial cellulosic ethanol plant.
Our research programme with Codexis in the USA develops natural enzymes into “super-enzymes” for faster conversion of non-edible crops or plant waste to ethanol, as well as directly into components similar to petrol and diesel. With US company Virent, we are working on the conversion of plant sugars directly into high-performance liquid transport fuels. In 2010 this partnership started production at a demonstration plant that has the capacity to produce up to 38,000 litres of biogasoline a year. We have also started research into producing diesel and aviation fuel using this approach.
In early 2011, Shell transferred its interest in Cellana, a joint-venture company researching the conversion of algae into biofuel, to partner HR BioPetroleum. The decision allows us to focus on other advanced biofuels options that better suit our portfolio and strategy.
Electric and hybrid vehicles that can switch to petrol or diesel offer the potential to reduce CO2 emissions from road transport, although this depends on how the electricity is produced. If the electricity is generated by gas-fired plants or by renewable energy, the overall CO2 emissions will be significantly lower than if generated by coal.
Hydrogen fuel cells are expected to play a role in the longer term transport energy mix. Car makers, fuel suppliers and governments will need to work together to invest in new vehicles and distribution points in order to establish a hydrogen market and infrastructure that will bring down costs. We have invested in a number of hydrogen filling stations around the world as part of a demonstration programme. There were nine of these at the end of 2010 in the USA, China and Japan.


University of Zimbabwe Faculty of Agriculture
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Faculty of Agriculture is dedicated to the education of highly qualified experts, development and broadening of professional knowledge in the field of agriculture and related sciences. Applying the highest academic standards we enable students to acquire competences based on the newest scientific knowledge, for the benefit of our agricultural society. See Also: University of Zimbabwe Intake.
The Vision of the Faculty of Agriculture is to be viewed by our stakeholders and the general public as providers of scientific research-based agricultural and natural resource knowledge that is relevant and timely for addressing current and future problems, and for teaching and creating opportunities to further enhance public well-being..
Through the development and refinement of teaching and research programmes that are intellectually challenging, rigorous in both analysis and application, as well as socially relevant, the FoA aims to produce well-rounded graduates who can contribute to a fuller understanding of the Human Condition in both the historical and cultural contexts.
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The study forecasts sharp declines in wine production from Bordeaux and Rhone regions in France, Tuscany in Italy and Napa Valley in California and Chile by 2050, as a warming climate makes it harder to grow grapes in traditional wine country.
But also anticipate a big push into areas once considered unsuitable...
Wine experts have known for several years that a hotter, drier climate would change growing conditions in many of the most prized wine regions – forcing vineyards to mist grapes on the vine to protect them from the sun, or move sensitive vines to more hospitable terrain.
But the latest findings, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, still took the researchers by surprise. "We expected to see significant shifts, but we didn't expect to see shifts like these," said Hannah.
The scientists used 17 different climate models to gauge the effects on nine major wine-producing areas. They used two different climate futures for 2050, one assuming a worst-case scenario with a 4.7C (8.5F) warming, the other a 2.5C increase.
Both forecast a radical re-ordering of the wine world. The most drastic decline was expected in Europe, where the scientists found a 85% decrease in production in Bordeaux, Rhone and Tuscany...
Full Guardian article here. More on climate change here.


STC Program: Soils Unit Kit, 3rd Edition
In Soils, students investigate the chief components of soil (sand, clay, and humus) and the relationship between soil and plant growth. They create their own compost bags to observe decomposition of organic materials over time. Students observe and read about earthworms to learn about their connection to plant roots and soil. They also conduct tests to observe and compare such properties of soil as odor, appearance, and texture. Settling, water content, and soil consistency are explored.
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The “Spring Cleanup” is a combination of services designed to bring your lawn out of winter hibernation and prepare it for the growing season.
Step 1: Power-raking to remove excess thatch and allow the lawn to breath.
Step 2: Aerating to alleviate soil compaction and allow the roots to access needed nutrients.
Step 3: Debris cleanup to remove anything that accumulated throughout the winter.
Step 4: A fresh cut to initiate the growing cycle.
The “Fall Cleanup” is designed to remove all debris to keep a clean appearance and create ideal conditions for hibernation and post-hibernation services.
Step 1: Blow out flower beds and tree beds to remove all leaves and other debris that has accumulated.
Step 2: Raking the lawn and removing all leaves and debris for off-site disposal.
Step 3: A final cut.


Parboiled Non Basmati Rice
Parboiled Non Basmati Rice, we manufacture is also known as converted rice is a specific rice, which has been partly boiled in the husk. It comes through the three elementary steps of parboiling, which are soaking, drying and steaming. The mentioned steps make the grain easier to process with hand, rise its nutritional life and modifies its texture. The parboiling process of this product drives nutrients, particularly thiamin, from the husk to the endosperm, hence the Parboiled Non Basmati Rice is nutritionally kindred to brown rice.
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How algae microfarms can help transform our food culture by growing abundant healthy food in a very small area and extend the growing season, affordably. Home, Community and Small Algae Microfarms Most common question over the past 35 years: “Can we grow algae at home or in our communities?. Will algae microfarms grow new superfoods for urban and rooftop The first Pacific Northwest spirulina microfarm near Olympia Washington.
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Algae microfarming is a perfect fit for the growing Do-It-Yourself movement and the trend growing food and herbs indoors, in greenhouses, on rooftops and in empty lots in urban, backyard and community gardens. Soon, remote sensors linked with cell phone apps may assist the basic functions of algae culture health monitoring and diagnosis. Design for a research center of marine algae typical of the Basque coast for medicinal, food and industrial applications.
More recently, well-funded ventures are attempting to develop commercial…. This emerging technology will empower people globally to grow healthy food and co-products for the needs of their local community using more sustainable and affordable inputs.
Spirulina has been adopted by village farms in the developing world. Thousands of tons have been sold each year for the past 40 years as a food and feed supplement. Parallel to large scale commercial farms has been the evolution of village scale algae systems, primarily in the developing world in Africa and Asia.
Oilgae Digest This is for entrepreneurs and businesses who wish to get a basic understanding of the algae fuel business and industry dynamics. They range in size from a single cell to giant kelp over feet long. The last 30 years progress in algae technology is remarkable. Upon returning to France, some technicians who became expert in local spirulina cultivation began small-scale production at home.
Algae scientists balance system ecology to keep out weed algae and zooplankton algae eaters without using pesticides or herbicides. Innovative, inexpensive and efficient small systems have been operating in villages in the developing world. Algae production farms for high value food and feed supplements, operating since the s, such as Earthrise Nutritionals in California and Cyanotech in Hawaii, ranged up to 50 hectares in area.
Cultivation of Algae in Photobioreactor. In France there are algae microfarmers and a school curriculum for growing algae and these small growers are selling their own products directly in their local region. And so, a new entrepreneurial business model emerged for growing spirulina in microfarms and selling to the local community in the developed world.
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Spirulina has been most commonly adopted and there are now farms all over the world, perhaps in as many as 40 countries. It uses innumerable data and information from a wide variety of expert sources and market studies, and distills these inputs and data into intelligence and a roadmap that you can use. The good news is that small scale algae farming has been tested for 30 years….
Growing food in cities, on rooftops and surrounding areas may become even more popular as fuel costs rise, making transported food increasingly expensive. Selling algae locally as a valuable nutritional supplement will provide more income per area than growing just vegetables, and will improve business opportunities and self-sufficiency for people growing in small farms and gardens.
Imagine greening desert coastlines and producing food for millions of people. Artist conceptions of large algae biofuel farms. Successful algae cultivation requires a more ecological approach than industrial agriculture. Today, the cultivation area consists of 1. This will allow local algae growers to consult with remotely located algae experts on how to maintain a healthy algae culture in their small production systems.
Re-visioning an iconic building from the past century fossil fuel economy. These will require huge investments to microfadms necessary economies of scale.
Part 2 Spirulina has been adopted by village farms in the developing world.
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Local food production avoids costs of transportation fuels and multi-level distribution along the value chain in the current food system.
Future visions of living algae systems in daily life
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and partner institutions have provided the first published report of algae using raw plants as a carbon energy source. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. On a small land area, a community could meet a portion miicrofarms its food requirements from microalgae, freeing cropland for community recreation or reforestation. Big algae production systems start small. Spirulina has been most commonly adopted and there are now farms all over the mifrofarms, perhaps in as many as 40 countries.
Why Microfarms Are Emerging
Chapterwise Comprehensive Oilgae Report. The International Algae Competition challenged people around the world to design our future with algae food and energy systems.
Aquamole is a guacamole dip made by blending fresh algae with yogurt, cream cheese, herbs, and guacamole spices for a savory green dip for crackers, chips and bread. A number of enterprises provide laboratory scale equipment and services for automated growing, monitoring and controlling algae.
This is for entrepreneurs and businesses who wish to get a basic understanding of the algae fuel business and industry dynamics.
Most microofarms live off sunlight through photosynthesis, but some live off micrkfarms matter like bacteria.
Evolution of the algae industry Over the past 40 years, worldwide algae companies have produced high value food and feed products, supplements and nutraceuticals. With a multitude of different bloom How will growing algae change the world and improve our lives?
Haematococcus is grown in both outdoor ponds and closed systems for astaxanthin, a carotenoid pigment, extracted as a fish feed ,icrofarms to color salmon flesh and as a human anti-oxidant food supplement. Ripley Fox and Antenna Technologies.
The International Algae Competition is a global challenge to design our future with algae food and energy systems. Algae Lab Systems of Colorado algaelabsystems. But others see networks of smaller farms.


Anson County to realize 300 jobs with GrowGreen.
GrowGreen Power Inc., a combination agriculture and green power company, is set to build a new plant just outside of Wadesboro in Anson County. Construction will begin with a 50-acre greenhouse and eventually expand across 100 acres. Included will be a hydroponic greenhouse and a solar thermal/biomass power plant. The combination of renewable energy production with hydroponic crops will create a sustainable system that will be capable of producing up to 30 times as much as traditional farming.
The $250 million project is expected to expand the local workforce by 300, as was noted in the resolution of support passed unanimously by the Anson County Commissioners at their regular monthly meeting convened on September 12.
“Our team has worked diligently to find a location that fits our needs,” said Bradley Nixon, Principal and CEO, in a press release from July 5, 2011 that announced the company’s site selection. “We received a tremendous response when we first announced our intentions to come to North Carolina. The support we’ve received from the community has been very positive and encouraging.”
Read more: The Anson Record
Corporate Expansions Create Hundreds of Jobs Across North Carolina.
Alternative Energy Producer to Invest $60M in Northeastern N.C.
Solar Power Innovator Semprius Plans Manufacturing Facility in North Carolina


On Friday, November 7th, Environmental Sustainability Student Associate Rebecca Quesnell, in collaboration with Roosevelt University’s Physical Resources Department, hosted the first Wabash Rooftop Garden planning meeting of its kind. The meeting was developed in an attempt to involve the RU community, which includes faculty, staff, and students, in the Rooftop Garden planning for Spring ’15. The meeting was a huge success considering it was the first of its kind and a total of six were present at the meeting. Several others have expressed interest in getting involved with the planning for this coming Spring as well, so as of now there are about a total of twelve individuals interested. This is wonderful considering that student associates come and go and graduate. If there is more RU community involvement, we can have a strong garden just as the one out at the Schaumburg campus is.
This initial kickoff meeting included briefly going over background information on the garden, as well as delving into the focus for Spring of ’15, which then lead into a group discussion, and ended with next steps for the garden. Wonderful ideas and suggestions were brought up during the meeting, and it is very exciting to know that involvement is already flourishing for this coming year. One major idea that was brought up during the meeting revolved around starting the plants indoors. This past Spring was cooler than it was warm and plantings were done early in the Spring due to certain circumstances. As such, it cannot hurt to start the seedlings inside and then transplant them when the weather warms up so that there can be optimum success with the garden this coming year!
If you have any interest in getting involved with the garden, please feel free to contact myself, Rebecca Quesnell, at firstname.lastname@example.org, or feel free to stop by the Physical Resources Department in Wabash B16.
To check out another recent blog post on the Wabash rooftop garden, check out the following link:


The meat sector has had exports for $14 million in the first four months of 2020 with more than 3,000 tons exported. In 2019, throughout the year, meat sales reached $24 million with 5,300 tons, which makes it predictable that this management will exceed these figures.
Production was reduced by up to 50% due to the closure of 1,500 farms in Cochabamba. This month, 12 million chickens will be produced, not 18 million as usual. That deficit of 6 million chickens will cause the price of chicken to go up. The increase in the cost of chicken benefits the wholesalers more; producers sell the kilogram of chicken between Bs 12 and Bs 13and the traders sell it for Bs 16.
The project of the industrialization of the lithium offering favourable conditions to the investors, it is indispensable to guarantee the democracy and the legal security so that the investor can recover his capital from 2 to 3 billion dollars in a period of 10 to 20 years. The amount of lithium concentrated in the Uyuni, Coipasa and Pastos Grande’s salt flats amounts to approximately 21 million tons, however, for every gram of lithium, there are 19.2 grams of magnesium, making evaporation require further procedures. The ideal is a ratio equal to one.
The soybean harvest reached 1.97 mn tons of soybeans, on an extension of 1.02 mn hectares, obtaining a yield of 1.9 tons per cultivated hectare.
The industry reached an agreement on the payment of the grain with the producers, between $250 and $260 per tone. Planting projections for the winter season are 335,000 hectares of soybean, 110,000 hectares of wheat, 130,000 hectares of sunflower, 90,000 hectares of corn and 450,000 hectares of sorghum. The productive sector of Santa Cruz proposed to the Government to create rules to be able to reprogram short and long term credits, suggesting periods of up to 12 years.
Since February 9 of this year, Petrobras has started importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) from overseas markets and has significantly reduced its demand for Bolivian energy. Even though the price of Bolivian gas exported to Brazil fell in the second quarter to $4.58 per million BTUs, it is still higher than LNG, which costs less than $2 per million BTUs. In April Petrobras imported an average of 10.6 MMm3d of Bolivian gas and an average of 5.6 MMm3d of LNG. In May, it introduced an average of 11.4 MMm3d of Bolivian gas and 5.7 MMm3d of LNG.
Between January and April 2020, external sales of milk recorded a growth of 19% in value and 7% in volume compared with the same period 2019. Colombia is the leading destination in 2019 bought more than 4,000 tons for a cost of $ 13 million. The Department of Santa Cruz was the only milk exporter in 2019.
Crude oil finished virtually unchanged on Friday, with Brent’s barrel for August delivery ending at $38.73 in London, up 0.5% from Thursday’s close. In New York, meanwhile, WTI’s barrel for July delivery dropped 0.2% to $36.26.
The health emergency that the country is going through has generated a new business; the production of biosecurity suits and implements. Cotexco, a company from Cochabamba that before the pandemic produced jeans, indirectly exported up to five thousand chinstraps to Peru. In Santa Cruz, some 600 small companies have begun manufacturing these materials. The internationalization of Chinese production is reducing the only source of income for these business units.
25% of the discotheques, cafes, bars, restaurants and liquor stores affiliated to the Federation of Tourist Activities and Entertainment of Cochabamba (Fatec) have closed during the three months that the quarantine has already lasted. Also, the sector loses five million bolivianos ($718,390) in each month it is not operating, which represents a deficit of almost Bs 15 million ($2.15 mn)


Leap’s Farm is owned by the husband and wife team of Russ and Patty Leap. Our goal it to provide the best flour, cornmeal and hopefully this fall pumpkins. We value bringing the best product we can to market even if it costs a bit more because our customers should only have products that surpass there every desire. The farm itself is 38 acres in rural Indiana county Pa.
We do not add any bleaches, dyes, preservatives or anything else in the milling process. In keeping with our old world cold milling process we do not remove anything from the grain either, so all of our products are whole grain so they retain all the flavor and nutrients found naturally in our grains.


Who We Are
Green Grow is a family owned business, locally owned and operated. At Green Grow the PEOPLE make the difference. We are all very knowledgeable with over 40 years growing experience. We are always happy to assist with any questions or concerns you may have. We are here if you need a single part or are setting up a new grow space. With thousands of items and hundreds of brands in stock we are your one-stop for all your gardening needs all year round. We have the largest in-stock selection of indoor gardening, hydroponics, and related supplies in the Midwest!
What We Do
Green Grow has been established and helping the community to grow all year long. With the type of climate here in Michigan it is hard to grow all year around due to cold winters. We want to take the garden indoors to keep ol man winter outside by himself. We can't bring nature indoors but we sure can emulate it. Whether your garden is indoors or out we have all the products you could ever ask for in the gardening profession.


Our range of direct-sown, perennial and annual seed mixtures make a stunning and easily-raised display from late spring to early autumn, depending on sowing time and mixture choice. Each mixture contains varieties with overlapping flowering times, so the display changes subtly over time. The overall effect, as breezes waft through the mixture, and bees, butterflies and other insects flit about the flowers, is well appreciated in parks, estates and gardens from Scotland to Cornwall. Our Throw to Grow range is a cost-effective choice for filling large areas of flower beds, and our huge range of mixtures includes cut flowers, mixtures to attract bees and birds, and a range of colour options. Often called ‘wild flower mixtures’ they are in fact non-native in origin.


El pronóstico es del International Grain Council, básicamente habrá una gran cosecha de maíz -una vez más- por el cultivo de EEUU. Los precios se estabilizan.
The world's 2009-10 grain output forecast has beenrevised up to 1.733 billion metric tons, but is still 57 million tons less thanthe record 2008-09 crop, the International Grains Council said Thursday. The 18-million ton rise from June's world grain production estimate is partlydue to larger than expected U.S. corn plantings, said the IGC. The larger plantings, combined with an improved outlook for production in theEuropean Union, China and Africa, pushed the IGC's 2009-10 world cornproduction estimates up to 781 million tons from the June estimate of 768million tons, said the report. However, even with the upward revision, 2009-10 world corn production is alsoexpected to fall short of the previous year by 6 million tons. The IGC slightly increased its world wheat output forecast to 654 milliontons, up 2 million tons on the previous forecast, but down 5% on the year. "Prospects (for wheat) have improved in Russia, the US, China and Morocco,but forecasts for the European Union, Canada and Argentina are lowered," saidthe report.