Update: May 2017 – Local Garden closed due to high overhead costs. We were sad to see the project go!
At my childhood home in Calgary, there were always rabbits in our backyard, nibbling on our veggie patch. These rabbits would settle their chubby bums amongst our rows of carrots and lettuce and enjoy the luxury of our homegrown produce.
Though it’s always exciting to hear “local” in the foodie realm, you can’t help but notice the varied geographical radius this word encompasses. Depending on where you are and what you are referring to, “local” can extend from 100 miles to your whole province.
Yet, I think of “local,” and think of the bunnies in my backyard, ravishing the joys that (literally) surround them. In a metropolitan grid like Vancouver, achieving the same meaning of “local” seemed near impossible…until last year, when Local Garden became North America’s first VertiCrop urban farming system.
Seated on top of a parkade in downtown Vancouver, Local Garden is quickly and quietly changing the sustainable food farming and food production landscape. When you make it to the top floor of the parkade, the tented greenhouse has an almost comedic presence. It’s deceivingly simplistic at first glance, but as I ventured through the cavernous expanse of greenhouse, I was floored, humbled, and deeply inspired.
120 racks, each holding 24 trays of 24-39 plants are suspended from the ceiling. Over 30 types of produce circulate on a track, receiving water at four points. As the towers of greenery made their calm, measured circles around me, I was at a loss for words. It was as if I had stepped into a futuristic world to witness a complex operation that I had no idea could ever exist. But here it is, North America’s very first farm of this kind, thriving in the concrete mass of our own city. In a mere 6000 sq. ft. space, Local Garden is producing the equivalent of a 5 acre farm…regardless of the weather. This makes “eating local” very achievable.
It’s a never-before-seen concept, so there was so much to learn from and marvel at. With piles of notes to choose from, I’ve put together a list of the most interesting facts I gleaned from my time at Local Garden:
The “transition” process from farm to table is this: the plants spend 21 days growing in the greenhouse. They are packaged on-site, then driven down 9 floors of parkade, onto Richards Street, and straight to grocers like Urban Fare and Whole Foods. When you consider the grief we go through to get products from Mexico, California and China, the simplistic chain of events at Local Garden is truly remarkable.
Plants at Local Garden grow for only 21 days. Because of this, fibres in the plants will not fully mature, meaning the produce has less carbohydrates and is sweeter, more tender, and easier to digest!
You know how you get the “mixed greens” at the store? Local Garden has two blends: the Rooftop Blend and a brand new Vancouver Special. I assumed that all the elements were grown separately and combined in the box, but Local Garden actually grows the whole blend together in one plant! To harvest, the entire plant is separated from it’s growing pod, rinsed, and is ready for the box! It doesn’t get any fresher that that.
Local Garden is using custom, sodium halide lights that give off the ideal amount of lumins (rays of light) in the correct spectrum for plant growth.
- They play music to the plants. Apparently they’re exclusively into classical and reggae.
Local Garden doesn’t use any pesticides or herbicides! If the little buggers do make it into the greenhouse from one of the two entrance points, “integrative pest management” techniques are employed. To illustrate this, if aphids are sighted, ladybugs are released!
The watering system is really fascinating. It has the same appeal as the rolling ball display outside Science World…you could watch for hours. The water comes from four points in the ceiling, and trickles down from tray to tray, until it reaches the troughs in the floor. It’s then drained to P9 (we’re in a parking lot, remember?), sand filtered and UV treated, and used again!
They’re growing the newest product in the produce section. Think about that for a moment. When was the last time a new product found it’s way between the apples and tomatoes? The microgreens from Local Garden are still alive in the box – you can eat them straight, or open the lid, put it in your window at home, and keep them growing!
You can find Local Garden’s ultra-fresh produce in restaurants like Fable and Boneta, but about 95% of their business is focused on “feeding the people” who want to eat Vancouver’s locally grown produce. It’s a luxury to go out for dinner in Vancouver. Local Garden focuses on getting the product to you, such that you can enjoy this simple pleasure every single day.
When Local Garden started it’s journey just over three years ago, the technology for vertical-farms already existed. If the technology was already understood, my question was, “why isn’t everyone doing it?” Though it was initially difficult for Marketing Manager, Rae Abbott, to pinpoint the exact barrier to entry for vertical farming, I realized that everything – every process, every product, every day – is a challenge. “Everything we do here is a try,” Abbott admits, but there is a clear tone of excitement in her voice. Because they are pioneering the concept in North America, Local Garden must approach businesses and suppliers to stretch beyond their regular means to meet the needs of the greenhouse. Every step is a serious undertaking and no corners can be cut to achieve what Local Garden aims for.
In a world where we are confronted with documentaries like Food Inc., which expose the intense corporatization of the food industry without a glimmer of optimism, this little parkade greenhouse shines like a beacon of hope. How inspiring to know and see people, in our own city, working resiliently and tirelessly to create change, despite the odds. It’s a power we cannot underestimate. In the next ten years, Local Garden hopes to have a total of five vertical farms in Vancouver. The next time you’re trudging down a busy street, stuck in traffic, or waiting for a bus downtown…look up. Something amazing is growing close by.


Got green fingers? Missing the smell of freshly tilled soil and the taste of home grown veggies?
Every summer, KVAT (Recrea-tional Committee of Korte-pohja) hosts a gardening club by providing allotments for students in Viitaniemi and Kuokkala. Adverts for the club go up in May and activities continue during the summer until the harvest in August/September. It is particularly popular amongst foreign students and participation is free!
“Gardening provides an opportunity to be in fresh air and enjoy nature. It helps me to relax and get rid of stress. It gives the opportunity to exercise, especially at spring time when preparing a plot,” says Jurgita Kairyte from Lithuania.
Food prices are quite high in Finland, particularly organic produce. Growing your own veggies can help the student budget. Cucumbers, lettuce, cabbage, peas, radish, carrots, and numerous herbs grow well in Finnish soil. Potatoes yield a particularly great crop. As Jurgita says, “it was a joy to eat ecologically grown vegetables without using any chemicals to enhance my yield.”
But the plots aren’t only for veggies. Take a stroll through the gardens and you’ll see a profusion of flowers and even small trees.” says Panu Mäkinen, club supervisor. The gardening club covers topics like soil choice for different crops, making and
using compost and natural fertili-
zers, and how to protect your crop from the elements and unwanted dinner guests.
“Gardeners’ plots are like a yummy buffet for rabbits and worms. So, if you don’t want to share with those guests, be faster than them or use a gardening veil that may protect, at least from rabbits,” advises Jurgita. Gardening in Finland is an unique experience since the summers are so short and the climate harsh. The gardening club is on vacation during winter and if you head to the gardens in Autumn, be sure to wear your wellingtons.
So stock up on seeds, shears and spades and you’ll be ready to join the gardening club in spring.
Suzanne van Rooyen


Canopy chlorophyll Content (CCC) is the total amount of chlorophyll a and b pigments in a contiguous group of plants per unit ground area often expressed in mg/m2 (Gitelson et al., 2005). It is a product of leaf chlorophyll content (i.e., the chlorophyll content of a fresh green leaf divided by its one-side area (µmg/cm2)) and the leaf area index.
CCC is a terrestrial ecosystem functional EBV that describes the distribution of chlorophyll pigments within the 3D canopy surface. Thus, This defines the total photosynthetically active radiation absorbed by the canopy (Gitelson et al., 2003; Ustin et al., 2009). The chlorophyll content is thought to be one of a constellation of co-evolved traits that vary together across species in relation to contrasting environmental conditions (Reich et al., 2003). Monitoring the dynamics of the CCC helps to understand the adaptation of forest, crop, and other plant canopies to such factors (Feret et al. 2017). As a result, the amount and spatial distribution of chlorophyll content is vital for measuring and understanding plant growth, ecosystem primary productivity and ecosystem dynamics.
The canopy chlorophyll products for the Netherlands on monthly basis are generated under Showcase. 4, pilot 4.3. myVARIABLE of the e-shape project, which commits to the biodiversity conservation requirements, inter alia, and assess the status and trends of biodiversity. In this context, GEO BON, one of the flagships of GEO, is developing the framework of the Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs). The EBVs are a minimum set of complementary measurements that capture major dimensions of biodiversity change and are produced by integrating primary observations, (from e.g. in-situ monitoring or remote sensing), in space and time. Canopy chlorophyll content is considered as remote sensing biodiversity products by remote sensing and ecology communities.
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Gitelson, A. A., Vina, A., Arkebauer, T. J., Rundquist, D. C., Keydan, G., & Leavitt, B. (2003). Remote estimation of leaf area index and green leaf biomass in maize canopies. Geophysical Research Letters, 30(5), 52–54. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WPY-49H70PP-497/2/4cd9159e3f39a07a15c0f430abd8bbd4
Reich, P. B., Buschena, C., Tjoelker, M. G., Wrage, K., Knops, J., Tilman, D. & Machado, J. L. 2003. Variation in growth rate and ecophysiology among 34 grassland and savanna species under contrasting N supply: a test of functional group differences. New Phytologist, 157, 617-631.
Ustin, S. L., Gitelson, A. A., Jacquemoud, S., Schaepman, M., Asner, G. P., Gamon, J. A., & Zarco-Tejada, P. (2009). Retrieval of foliar information about plant pigment systems from high-resolution spectroscopy. Remote Sensing of Environment, 113(Supplement 1), S67–S77. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V6V-4W7RJYR-1/2/58a4cb652674c7aea4caed7df189aacc.


Modern times require modern thinking. There has been huge environmental costs of trying to feed the seven billion people on the planet. If you look at the facts, growing in soil is no longer a sustainable way to grow food. For an in depth understanding of the crisis at hand, we recommend The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century by Dickson Despommier who is considered the father of the vertical farming movement. After reading the book, you’ll envision a world where skyscrapers feed cities. Giving more people everywhere access to healthier food, the urban farming movement is improving lives by literally changing the way people eat. Using Tower Garden, growing a forward-thinking future is at hand.
As a convenient vertical growing system, Tower Garden provides an easy way to grow fresh, nutrient-rich fruits, vegetables and herbs at home. Grow delicious produce easily, indoors or out, year-round without soil. Tower Garden simplifies gardening by using aeroponics, the process of growing plants in an air or mist environment rather than soil. An advanced form of hydroponics, aeroponics is the latest development in hydroponic growing as the roots are not constantly submerged in water. A timer water-drip system allows for the roots to be periodically exposed to water and then air increasing the rate of growth.
For more information on this modern garden system we turned to Tower Garden representative Erlinda Bostwick. Married with four adult children and retired from the banking industry. She had been looking for ways to eat healthier since being hospitalized for seven days and having to have surgery to remove her gallbladder as well be treated for a liver infection. During her post-surgery appointment, her doctor informed her that my liver enzymes were still very high. She had to change her lifestyle and eating habits.
“The first time Tower Garden was introduced to me I became obsessed with it. My husband tried to talk me out of purchasing one since we are in the middle of building our retirement dream home. He didn’t want another thing to have to move to our new house. Besides, our new house is being built in a three acres property so there is plenty of room for any type of gardening. Somehow, I managed to convince my husband that Tower Garden is a totally different type of gardening.” The very next day after Erlinda’s system arrived, she assembled the Tower Garden and planted the seeds that came with the system. Ever since she has been enjoying growing and eating from her Tower Garden. She has grown cucumber, eggplant, bok choy, tomatoes, green pepper, celery, parsley, bib lettuce and romaine lettuce. “My health improved drastically. I was being given another chance. I feel empowered that I am doing something to improve my health and want to share my story with as many people as possible.”
Good health starts with good habits, like eating wholesome foods. Consuming more fresh fruits and vegetables is one of the most important things you can do to support your health. And there’s nothing fresher than the fruits and veggies you grow yourself. Unfortunately not everyone has the space or the ideal outdoor growing conditions. “This garden system allows you to grow your own produce without the learning curve or time commitment of traditional gardening or endless produce shopping. So it’s the perfect companion in your journey toward healthy living or to support your healthy lifestyle.”
Eating lots of fruits and vegetables is good for you. The problem is keeping a refrigerator stocked with fresh produce can be both costly and inconvenient. While it’s possible to buy organic at the grocery store, it does cost more. But with your garden, you can grow organic produce at a fraction of the price. “With the ability to have clean, living produce —produce you grew yourself— just steps away from your kitchen, it’s a game changer to be able to eat what you grow.”
When you buy produce from a grocery store, the food was picked days, weeks or even months before you bought it. Often food is harvested before it’s fully ripe because it’s easier to transport under-ripe produces as it’s more firm. But with this comes a big sacrifice of taste, flavours and nutrients. When you grow your own food at home you can pick it when it’s fully ripe and even minutes before you are going to eat it. Buying produce and growing your own at home does not have to be costly. Growing your own healthy food at home is also healthier for the environment. Discover all the benefits of growing your own food, no green thumb required!
Live well while conserving water and space. Tower Garden comes with everything you need to begin growing your own food. Enjoy abundant, nutritious harvests just weeks after planting. A garden that you can start growing instantly no matter what time of the year it is. Erlinda explains that there are one hundred and fifty types of plants that are ideal for growing in the Tower Garden. “Easily grow almost any vegetable, herb, flower and even many fruits at home with 90% less space and water and in a fraction of the time compared to conventional gardening. All you will need to add is water. Tap water or rainwater works great.”
Tower Garden has a vertical, compact design and closed-loop system technology, so it requires as little as 10% of the space and water you’d use with traditional growing. Because of the design, you can grow a lot of food in a small indoor or outdoor space vertically. “Gardening in northern climates is highly seasonal. With LED grow lights the Tower can be used all through the winter so you can take advantage of abundant, fresh vegetables all year. It’s also perfect for urban settings including rooftops, patios, balconies, terraces or just about any relatively sunny place outside.
“Tower Garden allows you to grow up to thirty-two plants in less than three square feet. It is a self-watering system. You’ll fill the reservoir at the base of your Tower Garden with a mixture of Tower Garden Mineral Blend that comes with the system and water. The solution cascades down the Tower Garden, nourishing plants. A low-wattage, submersible pump that comes with the system which is placed in the reservoir pushes the nutrient solution to the top of the Tower Garden through a small central pipe. The nutrient solution then drips down the inside of the Tower Garden, evenly cascading over the exposed plant roots. A timer ensures this process repeats continuously—usually in 15-minute increments—to deliver the ideal amount of oxygen, water, and nutrients to plants at the perfect time. Your Tower Garden comes with instructions on how to assemble the system. Don’t worry it is very easy to assemble. It is part of the fun.”
“There are so many benefits to this kind of gardening. Because you are growing vertically you don’t have to get down on the ground as you do with a normal garden. This is so helpful if you have back, hip or knee problems that can make caring for your garden painful. When you are growing with a tower garden you also don’t have to worry about weeds as much. Garden towers also often have fewer pest problems then gardens grown on the ground too. It’s harder for many pests to get at the plants and the vegetables are being cared for very well so they are healthy and not sending out signals for pest to move in.”
The Tower Garden™ is a precision growing system. Much like owning a high quality blender or food processor, the Tower Garden cannot be made reliably and even sustainably with clay or earthen material. It is a step above the typical hydroponic systems which use styrofoam or non-food-grade plastic. The Tower Garden is made from high-quality, BPA free, UV-stabilized polycarbonate (food-grade plastic). It is the best USDA approved plastic that you can buy.
Using NASA-grade growing technology, Tower Garden can produce as much as thirty percent greater yields up to three times faster compared to conventional methods. That means that, under the right conditions, you can expect your vegetables to be harvest-ready in as little as five weeks after starting seeds. And since you’re able to grow so many plants at once you’ll have a steady supply of fresh, premium ingredients.
Tower Gardens are popping up everywhere and inspiring community gardens. For more than a decade, Tower Garden has played a big role in urban farming, empowering communities, entrepreneurs, and agents of social change to easily and sustainably grow nutritious produce. There has been Tower Garden setups at green-thinking grocery stores, restaurants, warehouses, rooftops and in classrooms. Because real food shouldn’t be a luxury enjoyed by few. It should be available to everyone in order to grow a better world.
Tower Garden is available in USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Finland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Italy, Norway, Spain, Poland, and the Netherlands.
If you are interested in investing in your health and growing your own fresh produce in an aeroponic Tower Garden system, you can order it here. For further questions you may have you can contact Erlinda with any questions you may have here or call her at (321) 482-4542
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What Time Can You Start Mowing Your Lawn In Texas. If the lawn’s final mow last season was not below 3 inches, and it’s now march/april, it’s time to begin mowing. It’s also the best time to carry out invasive repairs.
It’s also the best time to carry out invasive repairs. If the lawn’s final mow last season was not below 3 inches, and it’s now march/april, it’s time to begin mowing. During the hottest parts of summer, your lawn may not need to be mowed as often, especially if it is struggling with heat and drought stress.
Avoid Watering Late In The Day.
This means the time between 8 and 10 a.m. As above but raise the mowing height When to start mowing your lawn in the spring ultimately depends on when you last cut it, among other factors, such as grass type, your location’s climate and the length of the grass at spring’s onset.
Mowing A Lawn Usually Takes About 1Hr Tops.
The grass is still growing (slowly) in january. On weekdays and after 9 a.m. Your answers will give you the amount of water needed to wet the soil to a certain depth in half an hour.
The Rains Will Return Which Improves Grass Growth So You’ll Need To Increase Your Mowing Frequency Again.
Furthermore, you run the risk of problems such as unwanted wear and tear on your mower, increased pest activity, and a. If 30 minutes yields 3 inches of wet soil and an average of. From 7am to 8pm on any other day.
Take Steps Now To Reduce Seed Populations In Your Landscape And Reduce Weed Numbers In The Spring.
Setting the sprinkler for the evening may lead to the grass staying damp all night long, which can cause harmful and unsightly fungus. Texas lawns thrive when they are watered properly and at the correct time of day of 4 am. Below, you can see how to start a lawn care, landscaping or any other type of property care business in texas.
In General, Mow After 8 A.m.
The sun is higher in the sky and at this time grass has dried out a bit from the early morning dew and any irrigation. If the lawn’s final mow last season was not below 3 inches, and it’s now march/april, it’s time to begin mowing. Mowing is the best cultural practice we have for controlling weeds and increasing the density of our lawns.


WONDERTREE - 100 FACTS - MORINGA FACT 04 - EXCEPTIONAL ANIMAL FEED
MORINGA AS LIVESTOCK FEED & PET FOOD
Animals are biological systems exactly like we, human beings, are. The same principles apply, particularly the garbage in-garbage out principle. More, when animals are actually raised for human consumption, there a multiplication effect: Animals become what *they* eat, and we, in turn, become what we eat through them. Junk foods generate junk lives, and animals raised in the way of the agro-industrial complex generate sick and obese humans. Look around you, if you are not yet convinced.
Industrial agriculture, with its bottom-line-oriented practices that totally disregard quality in favor of quantity ultimately produces what we have become at large: Obese, chronically ill, sick and pathetic imitations of a what a human being could be. Considering that the chickens we eat are fed each other's carcasses as well as chicken feces and ground diseased animals, that supermarket beef eats ground-up diseased sheep and roadkill, the same for pigs, and that all this happy crowd is filled to the brim with synthetic hormones and antibiotics, how can we wonder if most of us wallow in chronical illnesses, cancer, heart disease, etc? And the same is true for our pets. At least *we* are not fed seasoned processed animal feces in pellet form. Well, at least not yet.
Could this change? Could farm animals and pets alike be fed healthy foods? Definitely, and the Moringa tree is poised to play a major part in such a necessary change. The agricultural experimental station run by Foidl & Foidl conducted extensive trials using Moringa leaves as cattle feed for both beef and milk cows, swine feed, and poultry feed. The results were as expected, except that, as almost always with Moringa, expectations where not only met, but passed. Moringa is not only concentrated nutrition, but in the raw form, also seems to reduce the activity of pathogenic bacteria and molds, and improve the digestibility of other foods, thus helping farm animals as well as pets express their natural genetic potential. In other words, Moringa is both nutrition and an adaptogen and pro-genetic factor.
BIO-DYNAMIC EFFECTS OF MORINGA-BASED FEEDS
This easily translates in quantifiable results: At the Foidl agricultural station, with moringa leaves constituting 40-50% of feed, milk yields for dairy cows and daily weight gains for beef cattle increased 30%, with no hormones and no antibiotics. Birth weight, averaging 22 kg for local Jersey cattle, increased by 15% to 25%, or 3 to 5+ kgs.
Notice that the high protein content of Moringa leaves must be balanced with other energy food. Cattle feed consisting of 40-50% moringa leaves should be mixed with molasses, sugar cane, young elephant grass, sweet (young) sorghum plants, or whatever else is locally available. The maximum protein and fiber content of livestock feed should be:
Lactating cow: Protein 18%; Fiber 26-30%
Beef cow: Protein 12-14%; Fiber 36%
Lactating sow: Protein 16-18%; Fiber 5-7%
Meat pig: Protein 12-14%; Fiber 5-7%
Because of the particularly high bio-availibity of Moringa proteins and the "natural steroid"-like effect of fresh, raw Moringa, perhaps desirable for human athletes, but dangerous if uncontrolled in animal feeds, particular care must be taken to avoid excessive protein intake. Too much protein in pig feed will increase muscle development at the expense of fat production. In cattle feed, too much protein can actually be fatal, because of the possible adverse effect on the nitrogen bovine digestive cycle.
Nutrient value of Moringa leaves can be increased for poultry and swine through the addition of an enzyme, phytase, to break down the phytates, leading to increased absorption of nutrients such as phosphoric compounds found in Moringa. The enzyme should be simply mixed in with the leaves without heating. It is NOT for use with ruminants. [Companies that sell phytase include Roche (Hoffman-LaRoche), which has distributors worldwide. A typical price for Ronozyme P (also sold as Roxazyme in some regions), a highly active phytase derived from the organism Peniophora lycii, for use in pig and poultry feeds, would be in the order of US$6.00 to $8.00 per kg. One kilo of enzyme at that concentration can treat 3333 kg of broiler chicken feed, the same amount of swine feed, or 5555 kg layer chicken feed. Phytase addition to basal diet linearly increase ash weight in the grower phase. With the exception of proline and glycine, the digestibilities of the other amino acids is linearly increased with phytase. For example, nitrogen excretion is estimated to be reduced by 4.6% when phytase was added to pig diets at a level of 500 U/kg. If you don't know of a local Roche dealer you can find one on the Internet at www.roche.com/vitamins/areas.html or write to their mail order address at Roche Vitamins Inc., PO Box 910, Nutley, NJ 07110-1199, USA.
Cattle were fed 15-17 kg of moringa daily. Milking should be done at least three hours after feeding to avoid the grassy taste of moringa in the milk. With moringa feed, milk production was 10 liters/day and without moringa feed, it was only 7 liters/day. This almost a 45% increase, with NO artificial hormones involved!
With moringa feed, daily weight gain of beef cattle was 1,200 grams/day. Without moringa feed, daily weight gain of beef cattle was 900 grams/day. That's a 33% increase, with NO artificial hormones and NO antibiotics involved!
The only problem was that higher birth weight (3-5 kg) can be problematic for small cattle. Thus, it may be advisable to induce birth 10 days prematurely to avoid problems. Incidence of twin births also increased dramatically with moringa feed: 3 per 20 births, that is, in proportion, 150:1000, as opposed to the usual average of 1:1000. This is actually an incredible increase of 15% in total live births, an astonishing fact that fully illustrates the extraordinary bio-dynamic effects of fresh, raw Moringa greens.
MORINGA LEAF CONCENTRATE
Chickens, for example, will not voluntarily consume moringa leaves or moringa leaf powder. However, about half the protein content can be extracted from the leaves in the form of a concentrate which can then be added to chicken feed (or used in many other ways). The protein content desired in chicken feed is 22%. To obtain the concentrate, mix leaves with water and run the mix through a hammer mill. Heat this mash to 70 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes. The protein will clump and settle to the bottom. After pouring off the liquid, this can then be freeze-dried. Other alternate low-heat or non-heat method can be used to clump the protein.
A somewhat simpler alternative to freeze-drying is to take a pressure cooker and fit in the top a copper tube or steel tube. Take a compressor from an old refrigerator. Link the tube to the compressor inlet and run the compressor. At a temperature of 30 Celsius and about 50 mm of vacuum you can take out most of the water by evaporation in vacuum (in case you need it dry). However, this whole process actually comes to cooking the Moringa, which diminishes its nutritional qualities.
It is preferable to use Moringa raw, as part of a fresh fodder. For this, just take the sludge after sedimentation and mix it with dry fodder until you can handle it as a semidry mass. Then press it through a meat grinder to make homemade pellets. For pig fodder just mix the pellets with the normal fodder. However, be careful not to overdose with protein - fattening pigs need a maximum of 12-14% protein and lactating pigs 16-18% protein.
An alternate method is to use dry leaf cake left after juice extraction, which contain 12-14% protein, and mix it up with other suitable feed components.
What is said here of farm animal feeds is valid for pet foods. It is less important from a human health point of view, since we don't eat our pets, but there is no doubt that the overall health and appearance (coat, in particular) of pets reacts very well to the addition of Moringa to their diet. Actually, a whole new industry of Moringa-based pet food and care product might arise, once pet owners realize the benefits of adding Moringa to the diet of their animal companions.
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Research on the Adaptability of the New Varieties of Bermuda Grass in South-western Sichuan
CHU Xiu-juan, ZHANG Xin-quan, LIU Wei,YI Yang-jie(Department of Grassland Science and Technology,Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an,Sichuan 625014,China)
The adaptability of five new bemudagrass varieties were evaluated comprehensively in three regions of south-western Sichuan during the period of 2007 to 2008.The introduction of foreign variety Tifway and Nanjing were as control varieties. The trial sites were located at Ya’an, Hongya and Shuangliu. The results indicated that camparing with Nanjing and Tifway, Sau02011,Chuannan and sau9936 showed good adaptability and ornamental value. Most of these materials had great promotional value in the southwestern regions.


On February 19, eight universities, institutes, and companies signed an agreement on establishing the research and production consortium "Intelligent Agricultural Systems and Carbon Engineering."
The consortium includes eight Russian universities, academic institutes, and enterprises: ETU "LETI," Siberian Federal University, Don State Technical University, Komarov Botanical Institute, Institute of Fundamental Problems of Biology, Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry, the Akari Center Innovation Firm, and Synergy Technologies.
The consortium aims to combine the scientific, educational, engineering, and manufacturing capacities of its members to advance organic farming and develop new agricultural technologies using computer science and artificial intelligence and focusing on environmental protection.
Consortium members will develop integration mechanisms for joint projects, initiatives, and participation in competitions. Also, participants plan to draft standards that will ensure the introduction of innovative technologies for regenerative agriculture and decarbonization by adopting big data processing and other intelligent technologies.
"Each participant is important to us. Behind each of them, there are teams with unique expertise and experience in solving tasks and projects of interest to the consortium. Universities can provide the full cycle of design of devices and systems and training of relevant cadre. Academic institutions provide the fundamental element based on which applied solutions emerge. Research organizations, together with universities, are also involved in education. The most important result for the consortium will be the promotion of innovations in the markets, and in this case, we count on the experience of business." - Viktor Sheludko, Rector of ETU "LETI".
At the meeting, representatives of consortium organizations presented key research areas related to the technological modernization of agriculture.


Our garden failed last year, in Nick’s words. But I beg to differ. We did end up with about twenty butternut squash and…..well, ok, it failed other than that (although check out the handful of delicious butternut squash recipes I came up with on the right side of my blog, who knew butternut squash was so versatile?!). Nick is pretty sure he disrupted the whole nitrogen balance when he bought an electirc tiller and tilled the crap out of the soil before planting. This year he did a little less tilling and a lot more research online. But this garden still seems to be giving him a lot of stress (he’s constantly going to the kitchen to open the blinds and look outside to make sure the plants are “ok” and growing).
|The view from our kitchen. A few weeks ago it actually got so cold we had to cover the plants to protect them from the frost!|
|It’s ready!! The only issue? We found a huge bees nest in this area last night…..|
|In addition to these we are growing broccoli and bell peppers. Nick is taking this very seriously.|
|Nick has added a fence to block the rabbits from eating our bounty. I hope it works! It also blocks the garden in the back.|


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It’s been three years since we bought our little bungalow in Toronto and started our very own urban homestead. It’s always been a dream of mine to move out of the city and live off the land, but for the mean time my husband and I are cultivating our homesteading skills on our small property in the city. While our home is a tiny 1,200 square feet, our lot is huge for Toronto standards and we’ve been taking full advantage of our ample outdoor space. We’re currently growing blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, mint, basil, parsley, leeks, onions, lettuce, kale, tomatoes, watermelons, green peppers, hot peppers (over 6 varieties – we’re homemade hot sauce fiends), lavender and broccoli. We also have our two remaining chickens (RIP dear Linda chicken), and I’m currently trying to convince my husband that bee keeping is a really great idea …
Of all the things we’ve planted over the years I’ve found that tomatoes have grown the best in our backyard space. Here are my favourite tips and tricks for growing big, beautiful, organic tomatoes in the city:
Last year we ended up with over 100 tomatoes, so I created this delicious summer-fresh tomato salsa recipe as a way to prepare and store our tomato excess. While our current tomato crop won’t be ready to harvest until August, we’re currently still enjoying our homegrown tomatoes thanks to this delicious and easy recipe. Salsa is an excellent way to get more vegetables in your diet, and we add this recipe to baked chicken and fish, throw it onto our salads and even eat it straight out of the jar. Enjoy
Salsa is an excellent way to get more vegetables in your diet, and we add this homegrown recipe to baked chicken and fish, throw it onto our salads and even eat it straight out of the jar. Enjoy
Mix ingredients together and store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 2 weeks. We also use the techniques found in this book to preserve our salsa for up to 1 year.


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An old fork or spade makes an interesting DIY marker for a garden. Updating them with new colors or patterns to fit your style is also easy. You can paint or stain them differently to make them stand out in your garden. They are great as standalone decorations or props for photo shoots with friends…
Are you itching to get your hands dirty and green thumb on? The arrival of spring is the perfect time to get your outdoor space ready for the upcoming gardening season. There are many ways to spruce up your outdoor space, from adding new plants, lighting and furniture, to revamping old features like an old…
Little Tikes playhouses are so awesome – and also a little weird. A chicken coop inside a house? It’s almost like they knew we would all be obsessed with raising backyard chickens one day! If you have a Little Tikes playhouse at your home or somewhere nearby, transforming it into a chicken coop is the…
You’re probably now enjoying your harvest from the last summer harvest. It’s a great time to take a break as you await the next planting season.
As you wait for the growing season, this is the best time to do a soil test. What fertilizers are you going to buy? You can only tell this by doing a simple soil test.
Soil test results reveal the amount of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium present in the soil. This then guides you on the right type of fertilizer and quantities to add to the soil. If you don’t have a soil test, a balanced formula like 13-13-13 fertilizer is a good choice for an initial fertilizer of the year.
When it is time to start getting into the mood for this time of the year, it’s important to think about what can be done with your kids. You will have a wonderful time putting together a fall-felt garland if that is the direction you choose to go in.
Here is a breakdown of what you are going to need to do if you want to start sewing with the kids.
Drawing The Leaves
This is a great place to start with the kids as you begin to put together a comprehensive fall-felt garland.
The goal here is to start drawing the leaves using a template. It is easy to find online fall leaf templates if that is what you want to do.


Hall Brook Farm is owned and operated by Pheonix and Megan O’Brien. Together with our dedicated farm crew, we grow about 10 acres of MOFGA certified organic mixed vegetables and have a 1/3 of an acre of high tunnels, allowing us to grow all year long!
We farm organically for the health of our land, the health of ourselves and for the health of the people we feed. We love our little piece of land and want it to keep producing nutritious food for generations to come! We use cover cropping, crop rotation and organic fertilizers and manure to produce high quality, nutrient dense vegetables.
In 2016 we purchased our own farm, just up the road from where we had been leasing for three years prior. The farm had, up until our purchase, been in the Berry family since the early 1800’s. They milked Guernsey cows under the name Hall Brook Farm.


The leaves should not from different types of the kratom plant. With interest in kratom booming, it’s solely natural for some customers to change into concerned about growing kratom themselves. If it’s depression and lethargy in your mood, if you’re feeling blue and you simply want to rise up and actually perform, then white kratom is the option to go, as long because it doesn’t trigger anxiety and jittery feelings. Then there may be the likelihood that all the plants you cultivate will not develop as per your expectations. Planting the kratom plant from scratch will need endurance and could be quite involving. If we prime our taller trees they’ll begin to bush out extra close to the bottom. Southeast Asia’s tropical setting is uniquely suited to growing kratom, and it could also be difficult to have a profitable kratom crop in your area. For that reason bees rub themselves on the stems of the uncovered seed pods as they travel across the seed pod accumulating the pollen in their fur as they go. Bees and different insects are interested in the pungent candy smell of the kratom seed pods as they develop on the kratom trees. The leaves of these plants are often utilized in religious ceremonies, and kratom is quite common in some communities, particularly in some rural areas of Thailand.
Assume your entire pod is one seed. As properly, a staff member will climb up on the ladder and grab what ever seed pods are close and rub them in opposition to each other. The state of the science then indicated that it can be an appropriate various to drugs like Ritalin. It was out of the blue available in retailers in specialty shops, after which the Internet made it even easier to entry. We went back to the drawing board and after an in depth amount of research determined to put the plants on our essential website though now we have very restricted portions of them. Even should you successfully grow kratom plants at dwelling, they’re unlikely to have the same alkaloid content material as professionally-grown kratom timber, which is able to diminish the crop’s results. Naturally, your develop station is bound to differ depending on the number of desired plants you intend to grow and your most well-liked surroundings. This one determination will decide quite a lot about your essential supplies and equipment. In November 2017 the Minnesota Department of Health introduced the decision to add obstructive sleep apnea as a new qualifying situation for the state’s medical cannabis program.
Therefore, those who are taken with shopping for kratom should at all times be sure they are shopping for from corporations that assure clients they are providing pure, lab-tested kratom. When they are fully mature (and due to this fact ready for harvest), kratom trees will usually be upwards of twenty feet tall. For the seeds to grow, you need soil wealthy in nitrogen and soggy. As they proceed to develop, they can turn out to be truly large, measuring-in at as much as eighty two ft tall! When they begin to develop, the seeds need a warm temperature. Ensure to purchase seeds from a good supplier. Once you’ve germinated your seeds, you possibly can plant them. Get in touch with us to see what we provide. That method, you’ll be ready to get rising as quickly as your seeds arrive. Germinating your seeds is one in every of the best steps of rising kratom. How a lot water do you add to kratom seeds? It’s because there is still a lot in regards to the plant that remains unknown. In distinction, there isn’t much that may be performed with these pods.


This week marks 9 months since we’ve been living on our block. It’s not a significant birthday but it does seem to signify a change in direction on our life here. Gone is the focus on the bus (there are still a few minor jobs and the issue of mould to do before next winter.) Instead we are now shifting our attention outside to the garden, to the yoga studio: to the creation of other spaces.
The first of which has been to create some garden beds. Originally our idea had been to create raised wicking beds but as we collected a pile of logs our cleared trees our thinking shifted. Instead of raised beds we thought we’d attempt a hugelkultur bed. It would provide the water retention over time and would clear up some of the timber we hadn’t been able to mulch.
Step 1: Dig out your hole.
As the article link to above illustrates the rules for creating hugelkultur beds are general in principle. The main elements being to bury some wood, cover this with leaves and manure, add top soil and mulch. Reading through a variety of articles it was difficult to determine how deep to dig the hole. Working backwards from the height above ground we settled on digging out our bed to the depth of 30cm. This meant that over a course of a few days Deirdre and myself took to digging up our clayey soil creating a bed roughly 7 metres long and a 1.2 wide. For ease of access we added a few keyhole paths coming off one of the sides.
Step 2: Add your wood to your hole
In our case this meant a pile of 50-150mm diameter lengths of mainly silver wattle. We had some stringy bark as well but due to it’s allopathic quality we put them aside instead choosing to use the silver wattle. As the woods varied in lengths this meant some chainsawing before. To speed up our chainsawing I rigged up a wooden log holder from some off cuts.
Once the wood was cut to lengths of between 600 and 900mm we then carried them up to the bed and added them in. We started with the bigger bits on the bottom adding the smaller pieces on top of this.
Step 3: Wet down the logs (to promote breaking down)
With the wood in place (roughly up to the height of the hole) we then watered the logs to help promote breaking down.
Step 4: Add leaf matter
After watering the wood we then set about filling in the gaps with some twigs, mulch, leaf matter as suggested from the article. This was the hardest part of the construct as we had scrounge around trying to find some leaf matter. We ended up settling on some green leaves from some prunings and a pile of bracken and broken down leaves from our wood piles.
Step 5: Add manure
Once the gaps had been filled we added in some manure. This was sourced from roadside stalls around the valley. We added it to about a 5 cm depth over the top of it all. To this we then added a few bags of biochar that we had created. Our rational being the biochar will help with the water retention.
Step 6: Add back some of the top soil.
The next step was to add back some of the soil that we had dug out. The reading we had done talked about adding the topsoil with the roots back. A little difficult given we were starting from a place of no growth. Instead I chose to add the more looser soil from around old tree roots to the top of the bed. Hopefully it doesn’t add to much clay to the bed, only time will tell I guess.
Step 7: Add extra top soil (optional step)
As mentioned our soil is mainly clay and therefore a little tricky to grow into straight away. Since we wanted to plant in our bed ASAP we order in some extra manure and soil. This was then added to the depth of about 10cm above the previous soil.
Step 8: Add mulch
With the soil added it was then time to add some mulch. Normally we would have settled on some straw from the local nursery but with the dry 2015 winter and spring and 15-16 summer the availability of straw is limited and so we settled on pea straw from the hardware.
The next step will be to plant it out with some seedlings and see how they go. This would have happened this week but our little greenhouse blew down in the winds this week and so we will have to start all over again.
All up the bed took us probably two-three hard days of work. Most of that being digging and chopping the wood. Once that had happened the rest of the steps probably took no more than a day. Hopefully the work has been worth it. I’ll add a part 2 on after summer to report on how the bed has gone.


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University of Kentucky senior Taylor Lloyd got involved in research as a freshman, and she says it shaped her career path. In February 2012, Taylor was honored on the floor of Rupp Arena as a recipient of two prestigious scholarships: the NASA Astronaut Scholarship and the Goldwater Scholarship. Her research, in the lab of Bruce Downie (associate professor of horticulture at the UK College of Agriculture), focuses on light and temperature signals that govern the germination of seeds. Understanding these mechanisms will allow researchers to improve agriculture in light of rising global temperatures.
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As part of every OAT (Overseas Adventure Travel) trip, they include what is known as “A Day in the Life,” where the group experiences everyday life with the locals. On this trip, it was a visit to a dairy farm in the village of Castelluccio. The family that owns the farm has about 100 acres of land, with views of olive trees that stretch for miles. I absolutely fell in love with the countryside of Sicily.
Their land is rich with beautiful fruit orchards overflowing with incredibly sweet persimmons and luscious prickly pears. The sun was high and warm as we wandered through the orchards, with the family patriarch plucking pears off the trees and doling out big slices for us to eat out of hand, his two trusty dogs trailing us.
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When I thought the day couldn’t get any better, we went to their cheesemaking hut where we helped his son make fresh ricotta (okay, mostly he made it while we watched), which was still warm when we ate it at lunch. Nirvana!
When we returned to the house, the lovely matriarch of the family invited us to make bread with her. She uses an ancient kneading machine, the kind that has been used in rural villages for decades. We all took a turn at this and believe me, it was not easy. After the dough has been kneaded and has risen, it’s formed and then baked in a wood-fired stove where she’s also added some olive tree branches for flavor.
While the bread was baking, we walked through the olive groves to a spot under the trees where we enjoyed salumi, caciocavallo cheese, and champagne (to celebrate the anniversary of a couple on the trip). It was like a Food and Wine Magazine spread.
For lunch back at the house, they grilled fat pork sausages and tender chicken legs that had been rubbed with lemon, oregano, and olive oil, all washed down with homemade wine in mismatched glasses. Everything we ate had been grown or made on the farm. Whatever they don’t use for themselves, they use to barter with neighbors. This is life in a small, rural Italian village. Hard to believe we were not far from the bustling hill town of Ragusa, that is home to a Michelin starred restaurant. Talk about two extremes. And I loved both equally.
Ciao for now!


Dairy innovator Dr. Michael McCloskey to keynote conference on Sept. 22
INDIANAPOLIS – Dr. Michael McCloskey, one of the founding farmers of Fair Oaks Farms, Indiana’s famous agritourism attraction which is comprised of some of the nation’s largest dairies, and CEO of Select Milk Producers, the fifth largest milk cooperative in the country, will provide the keynote address at the 2015 Indiana Logistics Summit on Tuesday, Sept. 22.
McCloskey’s presentation titled “From Grass to Glass Logistics” will kick off the daylong conference at the keynote breakfast in the Indiana Convention Center, and be followed by an all-star list of logistics leaders from Google, NASA, Cummins, Indianapolis Colts, GE Aviation, NCAA, U.S. Congress, IndyCar, Moffatt & Nichol, Transportation Weekly, Harvard Business School and more. The event will provide an inside look at logistics in all types of industries as well as new innovations and challenges that will greatly impact the U.S. economy.
During his keynote remarks, Dr. McCloskey will show how his innovative dairy operations get milk from 36,000 cows to store shelves across the country. Select Milk Producers has successfully launched a new partnership venture with The Coca-Cola Company aimed at revolutionizing milk consumption by producing ultra-filtered, nutrient-rich milk – called “fairlife® ultra-filtered milk” – that has less sugar, more protein and calcium, but no lactose.
“Dr. McCloskey is a modern day trailblazer in dairy farming and agriculture entreprenuership,” said Rich Cooper, CEO for the Ports of Indiana. “His innovative dairy operation has broken new ground not only in milk production, but also in sustainable farming, animal care, use of ag-based fuels, efficient supply chains and public education about the value of agriculture to our economy and daily lives. His presentation will be an eye-opener and have applications across all types of industries.”
Select Milk Producers, formed in 1994, is a cooperative of 92 family-owned dairies that produces and markets over 6 billion pounds of milk annually.
The 11 family-owned dairies that represent Fair Oaks Farms produce 280,000 gallons of milk per day – more than enough to provide a cup for everyone in Chicago, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and St. Louis – and has nearly 700 calves born each week. The combined 35,000-acre farms also grow their own crops to feed 36,000 cows and operate a public educational experience about modern, sustainable farming which uses animal waste to power some of its facilities and vehicles.
Recently the dairy began turning methane into compressed natural gas to fuel its fleet of 42 CNG-powered tractor trailers. This innovation eliminates 2 million gallons of fossil fuel emissions annually. The U.S. Department of Energy called this endeavor a “pacesetter” for the dairy industry and said it is the largest natural gas fleet using agricultural waste. The farm also uses sophisticated “digester” facilities to process manure into methane to power electrical generators that support the Fair Oaks Farms campus which includes a greek yogurt and ice cream factory, a café and gift shop, as well as an array of child-friendly exhibits about agriculture.
“Mike McCloskey’s presentation will speak to first class logistics and their benefit to his business, Indiana agriculture and alternative energy fueled transportation. As the State of Indiana is underway with initial work on reconstituting an Indiana Agriculture Strategic plan, it has been reinforced how important – and advantageous – Indiana’s geographic location is to the production, processing and movement of agricultural products,” said Ted McKinney, Director of the Indiana State Department of Agriculture. “The efficiency of our three major ports on the Ohio River and Lake Michigan will play a major role in the Strategic Plan.”
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with halloween over, we thought we’d try something a friend posted on line: growing pumpkins directly from the pumpkin. let me know if you try it, michigan friends!
we cut a hole in the top, just like one would to carve a pumpkin, and added dirt:
(ooooh, and the DANGER of this experiment. i had to experiment with which knife worked best, which meant bringing the whole knife tub out!) we also planted some of the seeds in dirt in a bowl to see what differences there might be.
all was well for five days and on the sixth day, no one was at preschool. on the seventh day, i unlocked the door and by the time i got to the top of our stairs, the smell was HORRIBLE. so horrible, it was an opportunity that had to be taken.
the pumpkin had rotted, split open on the bottom and leaked the horrible smelling juice all over the table.
a class list was made:
i agree that it smelled like poop, pee and throw up all together. after letting both classes experience the bad smell, we cleaned it up. however, we have discovered a crevice in the table that still has the bad smell if you put your nose right near it. we’ve left it and marked it with an arrow.
we took the rotten pumpkin to the garden and posed with our best sad faces.
it was amazing to me that not even one of the seeds had started to sprout, but the seeds in the bowl (from the same pumpkin) were already inches tall. as of this week, the seeds in the bowl are still growing!
now the question is: since it is too cold to transplant the pumpkin seedlings outside, how long will they be able to stay alive in the bowl? ooooh, the anticipation! go science.


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By training at two locations, the trainee will experience both cool season and warm season golf course operations.
The trainee will learn irrigation management - soil moisture monitoring, hand watering, syringing, scheduling, repair and maintenance of irrigation systems
The trainee will learn integrated pest management - disease and pest scouting, data collection, application procedures
The trainee will assist with tournament preparations - marking the course, development of detailed maintenance and staffing plans and development of contingency maintenance plans.
Undergraduate Student in the field of: Horticulture, Golf Course Management, Sports Studies, Turf grass Management or Related Field
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After a summer reflecting on the current state of the world’s food system, a major literature review and the development of a conceptual framework for analysing the future of the food system, the Policy Lab held it’s first in a series of workshops under the auspices of the Sustainable Food Systems project. We invited some of the in-house researchers and scientists in the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre that are currently working on various aspects of food systems to join us for the 1.5 day workshop, and to reflect on what would be needed in order to make today’s food system more sutainable and able to face the challenges of tomorrow (you can have a look at the report for a more detailed account of the workshop).
We will now need to move from the building of a food system approach to one which can assess the trade-offs and policy implications of transitioning future food systems towards sustainability. No small feat indeed, but one that we are excited to be working on and contribute to a fast-moving area of innovation and research (see also our work for DG RTD in this regard).
Mapping leverage points
In this workshop, the Policy Lab also trialled and successfully tested a systems-thinking methodology in which participants analysed firstly the different parts of the food system, secondly how these different parts are interconnected, and lastly the critical areas in the food system where a transition towards sustainability is necessary. Aside from generating interesting and fruitful discussions during the course of the workshop, the methodology used is also a promising new tool for systems’ analysis which could prove useful in many other fields, in particular for the Commission’s work related to the implementation of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. We hope to develop this as new line of services from the EU Policy Lab.
- Publication date
- 26 October 2016
- Joint Research Centre
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A vineyard is a growing space that produces grapes for wine. Its workers apply chemical sprays and fertilizers and check the grapes for problems and pests. Other workers do scientific work determining the chemical composition of grapes and when they are ripe enough for wine.
If you are planning to start a vineyard, you must begin by evaluating the site. You can do this through various methods, such as test pits and soil samples, but you can also ask or inquire about vineyards near Charlottesville. You can also get the soil analyzed by a laboratory. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is a good resource. They can help you determine the specific impact of different soil types. For sampling soil, digging a deep enough hole to reach the upper 12 inches of soil is advisable. It would be best to take soil samples from depths ranging from 12 to 24 inches. The pieces should be stored in large Ziploc bags labeled with depth.
When choosing the right site for your vineyard, consider the type of soil and climate in the area. In addition to the kind of soil and climate, you should also consider the slope, aspect, and elevation of the land. In addition, it is essential to consider the history of viticulture in the area.
The soil that makes a vineyard is primarily influenced by the type of climate it experiences. For example, vineyards with sandy soil will tend to produce softer wines with lower tannin and acidity in warm temperatures. Conversely, cooler climates will typically benefit from vineyards with limestone soil. These soils are ideal for growing vines, as they are low in pH and have a high amount of calcium carbonate.
The type of soil you grow grapes in is crucial, as it affects the ripening of grapes. The correct earth will also control the water and nutrients your vines receive. For example, poor drainage can cause excessive waterlogging in a vineyard, which inhibits vine growth and contributes to chlorosis in lime soils.
Sunlight is essential for producing the best wines, but it is not the only thing that makes a vineyard a great place to grow grapes. Different regions experience different climatic conditions, and the amount of sunlight on a specific slope can significantly affect how the grapes develop. For instance, a vineyard that faces east will receive more direct sunlight during the morning, which will help the vines grow. But on the other hand, a vineyard that faces west will receive a lot of harsh sunlight during the afternoon, which can stress the vines and produce a sour taste in the fruit.
The type of sunlight a vineyard receives is a significant factor in the quality of the fruit. A vineyard will not produce high-quality grapes if it gets too much heat. The optimal temperature range for grape production is between 30 and 50 degrees latitude. The closer a vineyard is to the equator, the warmer the climate will be. Sometimes a vineyard will need some cooling influences to keep the temperature in check. Still, it’s essential to consider sunlight and temperature as major deciding factors in where to grow grapes.
The orientation of a vineyard is critical to the growth of grapes. It determines which part of the vineyard receives the most and least amount of solar radiation. For example, rows oriented north-south will intercept less sunlight during the afternoon, while rows oriented east-west will receive more sunlight and allow air to circulate between the vines. As a result, north-south rows produce slightly higher yields than east-west rows. However, a vineyard’s row orientation should be coordinated with the site’s constraints. For example, a sloped site can affect the direction of rows.
The slope of a vineyard can affect airflow through the canopy and soil drainage. It can also affect the amount of water retained in the soil and the possibility of erosion. It may also affect how easy it is to work amongst the vines, harvest grapes, and manage equipment. Generally, a vineyard should have a 5% slope or less. However, a more than 15% slope in some regions can be problematic.
The best way to grow grapes and grapevines is to have the correct pH balance in the soil. This can be achieved by adding mycorrhizae (a naturally occurring microorganism that feeds on plant roots) powder to the soil. It is also essential to avoid chemical soil sterilants, which can damage the soil’s microbiology.
pH levels can vary by region. The ideal pH range is 6.5. Using pH-testing equipment to measure soil pH is recommended.
The climate of a vineyard is an essential factor for vineyard management. Therefore, accurate climate data are crucial for accurately predicting phenological development. Despite the difficulties and costs involved in installing on-site climate sensors, spatially interpolated climate data have been used to conduct viticultural climate analysis. However, it is essential to note that interpolated climate data are not always accurate.
The climate of a vineyard is highly dependent on its location and topography. This includes its aspect, slope, and elevation. Therefore, a vineyard site must be selected carefully to make the most of it. It must have favorable microclimates and be compatible with the grape varieties it will grow. The management team must also decide how to space the rows and trellis of the vines.


Microbes are combined with micronutrients to balance nutrition and maximize growth potential.
CropPro+™ is our CropPro™ formula with foliar micronutrient additives to give crops the extra boost they may need under cool wet, and hot dry conditions.
Applications and Uses
All row and forage crops
CropPro+™ stimulates the growth of root systems and helps release soil nutrients. This specialized “Team” of viable microbes manufacture enzymes (catalysts) that improve natural nitrogen fixation, and are able to release (solubilize) phosphate from old fertilizer and mineral sources. Various microbes in the blend make root growth stimulants and form various amino acids / proteins designed to feed and communicate messages to plants and plant roots. The host of benefits derived from this natural biochemistry is very diverse! The goal, however, is very simple. It is to improve sustainability naturally and reduce the environmental impact associated with over applying N,P, and K. In addition, improving plant growth, plant productivity, and soil condition (tilth) are the direct by-products of using CropPro+™ . The Best In Class product represents some of the most up to date technology on the market today.
- When used foliar, provides nutrients and microbes that lead to an improved condition in the biofilm of the leaf.
- Phosphate-solubilizing microbes and nitrogen fixing microbes that improve the ability of the soil to provide extra nutrition naturally for the developing crop.
- Better plant resistance, increased water retention, greater fertilizer efficiency, and enhanced nutrient availability.
- Enhanced growth of leaves and canopy closure, larger diameter stems, and bigger root systems, leading to healthier plants higher yields.
- Improves the health and appearance of crops while increasing yield.
- Improved nutrient release and uptake.
- Improved natural chelation of soil nutrients.
- Increased Yields and Excellent Return on Investment.
- When washed from the leaf to the soil, CropPro+™ activates native soil organisms, increases metabolic activity of soil microorganisms, enhanced nutrient availability, and better crop resilience.
- Assists in the breakdown of complexed fertilizer compounds that increase uptake into the plant, thus preventing excessive runoff into sensitive bodies of water.
- Improves the tilth of the soil, and easy, direct foliar application or in-furrow at planting.
- Dramatically increases plant health during draught conditions.
- Also stimulates root growth when applied as foliar.
- In legume crops, it improves nodulation and nodulation efficiency.
- Includes strains that produce plant growth stimulating hormones.
- Other strains release compounds that help capture iron that can become available to the plants.
- Easy, direct foliar application or in-furrow at planting.
- Not genetically modified.
- Free-living nitrogen fixing microbes that bring atmospheric nitrogen into the rhizosphere (root area) where it can become available to the plants.
- Several strains that can digest typically indigestible plant residue that can be put back into the rhizosphere to support the growth of the microbial community.
- For best results, apply in-Furrow with seed at a rate of 16-32oz. per acre. Follow up with CropPro Jump™ as a foliar with spring applied herbicide and insecticide programs.
- Applications can be made in-row at beginning of growing seasons 16-32oz. per acre.
- Foliar application rates are recommended at 16-32oz. of CropPro+™ per 10-20gal. of water per acre.
- Can be applied as a Premix with chemicals of fertilizers and compatible with most agricultural products if mixed just in time.
- CropPro+™ can also be used as a pre plant incorporated or pre emergence soil spray at the rate of 32oz. per acre.
- Can be used in post emergent pesticide. If adjuvants/surfactants are recommended, reduce adjuvant recommendation use by 50%.


McKaskle + Chipotle
In our opinion, the root of all things real and good is a generous scoop of organically grown rice. It’s the foundation of every bowl, burrito, and salad. So you better believe we didn’t choose just any rice for the job. McKaskle upholds the highest standards in growing, harvesting, and processing their grains.
The McKaskle family and Chipotle have a long history of helping each other be better. On one hand, Chipotle helped McKaskle through the transition from conventional to organic farming, a process that takes three costly and labor-intensive years. On the other, McKaskle provided Chipotle with the best organically-grown long-grain rice there is.
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Managing yard insects with Pesticides
For example, entomopathic nematodes can be used to control insects that feed on grass, and there are many different species. Insecticides such as insecticides, pesticides, and herbicides (resistant pesticides) can all be used to kill certain insects or a class of insects.
Large insects such as destructive caterpillars can be controlled by simply picking them by hand from the plant. For example, you only need a few ladybirds and their larvae on a plant to fight the aphid invasion.
To minimize the potential harm to beneficial insects, limit your spraying to a small area where you can see the pests lurking, and leave a few unsprayed havens for the good bugs that are not visible. Find a safe way to prevent the insects that have invaded your home and the spraying of the beetles.
When monitoring populations, insect traps can help determine when insects appear, how many there are, and what to do about a particular pest, which is usually done by trapping.
This strategy uses specially introduced predatory or parasitic insects to control insect populations that actively damage plants. The most common method of protecting plants from insect pests such as aphids, mites and other pests is cutting. The insects are attracted by the traps on the crop, which are then destroyed.
Failure to eradicate the primary insect can sometimes lead to other types of pests being controlled by the insecticide in question. This same failure can also be caused by the choice of the wrong pesticide, the wrong identification of the pest, the wrong application of the pesticide, or the wrong dosage. If a pest is not correctly detected or the "wrong" pesticide is chosen, the use of pesticides may not bring the insects under control.
Monitoring pesticide toxicity
If a pesticide is deemed necessary to control an insect problem, the best course of action is to use the least toxic pesticide that effectively performs this task. In situations where we want to promote biological control, the use of non-persistent pesticides can provide better long-term control over insects, as they do less harm to natural enemies that migrate after application. If a pesticide is needed to combat a pest outbreak, it should be used in a way consistent with the conservation of beneficial insects.
Biological control has very few disadvantages compared to chemicals and can control pests more effectively than the use of other organisms. Importantly, mechanical control is therefore an integrated approach to insect control and has many of the same benefits of biological control, such as the use of natural enemies and the preservation of beneficial insects.
Using insects to control insects means that no synthetic chemicals need be used, that virtually no human work is involved in the spread of useful bugs, and that it is generally a great process. Biological control can be difficult to release into the garden because you have no control over where the insects go.
While pollinators in the garden are great, there is nothing that can take the sting out of an insect. Even the pesticides approved for organic production are insecticides, and although most botanical insecticides must be consumed by the insects themselves, they are primarily harmful to the pests and do little harm to beneficial insects. The advantage of the spray method for control is that the beneficial insect has a population in the garden and has a lot of work to do. While pollinators behave and behave in our gardens, we are talking here about beneficial insects often being the same pesticides used to control pests and insects, not the other way around.


FOR OVER 30 YEARS, PACIFIC BIOCONTROL CORPORATION HAS BEEN PIONEERING THE EFFORTS IN MANUFACTURING AND IMPROVING PHEROMONE BASED MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
WHAT ARE PHEROMONES?
WHAT ARE Isomate® DISPENSERS?
ISOMATE pheromone dispensers allow growers to use the most advanced technology available to manage insect populations. These proven control methods, called mating disruption, use the insect’s own communication system to its detriment. In the wild, female moths release a sex pheromone into the air to attract male moths. Male moths detect the pheromone “scent” and follow it upwind to locate and then mate with the females. In plantings treated with ISOMATE dispensers, the air is saturated with pheromone so the male moths cannot locate females, and mating is suppressed. By suppressing mating, ISOMATE protects the crop from fruit infestation.
ISOMATE dispensers contain a synthetic pheromone that is similar to the natural pheromone of female moths. The dispensers are made of a porous plastic that slowly releases pheromone over a period of months. The release rate from a single ISOMATE C Plus dispenser is about 10,000 times higher than that of a female codling moth. When ISOMATE products are applied at the proper time and at the recommended rate per acre, mating is suppressed. The result is insect control with less pesticide. With repeated yearly use, ISOMATE products can greatly reduce the population density of insects in the orchard.
WHAT IS PHEROMONE BASED IPM USING ISOMATE PRODUCTS?
The primary objective of a pheromone based IPM program is to ensure the production of a high quality, pest-free crop using economically viable and ecologically sound methods of pest control with minimal use of insecticides. The reduction or elimination of insecticides for insect control will help preserve and increase beneficial insects and predatory mites thereby enhancing the biological control of secondary pests and further reducing the use of insecticides.
SO THAT’S IT? SEEMS EASY…
Monitoring in an ISOMATE treated crop is essential. Pheromones are not a stand-alone approach to managing insect populations. Consult your local pest control advisor to determine if supplemental insecticides are required.


Sichuan Guangxin Machinery of Grain & Oil Processing Co.,ltd will attend the 29th International Agricultural Exhibition-Fair AGRO 2017, You are welcome to visit and exchange.
The exhibition time: June 7th-10th 2017
The exhibition hall: Expocentre of Ukraine
Booth No.: 3.04
The exhibition address: prospect Akademika Glushkova 1, 03680 Kiev, Ukraine
Metro-Station “Vystavkovyi Tsentr” (Exhibition Center)
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Co-owner, Hill Farms and Organ Mountain Produce
Topic: Agriculture and business
Currently serving as a “face of farming”. As a farmer, most people in our line of work don’t get the opportunity to get off the farm, and explain to people where there food comes from. With this position I have been fortunate enough to travel the country and share my story.
Hill farms is a diverse operation growing rapidly. We produce Hatch red and green chile, onions, lettuce, cabbage, pecans, pinto beans, alfalfa, wheat, corn, and cattle.
Over the years, Hill, a second generation farmer and the youngest of five children, has increasingly taken on more responsibility and ownership of Hill Farms operations. He currently owns the nearly 1,000-acre farm with his father, Jim Hill, 75, growing a variety of crops, including onions, lettuce, cabbage, corn, alfalfa, wheat, pinto beans, pecans, chile and more recently, carrots. The two also run a small beef operation.
In the past year and a half, Hill has also taken a serious interest in photography, taking pictures of the southern New Mexico landscape and the farm when he can. Besides the occasional photo of farm workers and what he calls the “epic selfie,” most of his photos focus on his surrounding environment, such as a lone tree in the desert, the night sky over a field of crops or a herd of cattle.
Outside of Hill Farms, Jay Hill is a co-owner of Organ Mountain Produce, which focuses on distributing produce to local restaurants and bean distribution. He is working with his cousin TJ Runyan to open a farm-to-market store, called FARMesilla, which will be built just outside of Mesilla and is expected to be completed by late summer or early fall.


Durian - The King of Fruits
Dubbed the King of Fruits, durian is undoubtedly one of Malaysia’s most significant products. There are many different durian breeds planted in Malaysia, with each breed having its own distinctive flavour and aroma. Unlike artificially ripened durians commonly found in other countries, where the durians are unnaturally ripened by ethephon (a ripening agent) and immediately collected upon ripening, the durians in Malaysia mature naturally and are collected when they separate from the tree naturally. This natural process gives the durians their distinctive flavour and pleasurable aroma. Although durian is a seasonal fruit, it is available throughout the year here in Malaysia. Generally, July-September and November- January are the peak harvest periods for durians.
The Home of Durian – Raub
Nestled in Pahang, Raub is acclaimed as the home of Musang King due to its premium quality and good harvest. Raub is the ideal place to grow premium Musang King durian because of its strategic location in the Peninsular Malaysia’s main mountain range that is home to Malaysia’s three famous mountains – Genting Highlands, Cameron Highlands and Fraser’s Hill. These three mountains embrace Raub, providing the cool climate, clean air and abundant rain that are essential for Musang King’s abundant growth. Raub’s abundant sunlight and good drainage further ensure a bountiful Musang King harvest.


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GMOs on our table. Are they telling us a true story?
17:30 05 December 2012
From the legend of the GMO fish-berry (with the antifreeze protein) to the recent controversy over the toxicity of GM Maize, from the debate regarding environmental safety to the freedom of choice on the label, GMOs have always been a controversial and difficult topic.
The majority of European farmers do not want them in their fields, and consumers do not like them on their table. As a matter of fact GMOs have already been among us for several years, they get in the food chain as feed for farm animals for producing meat and milk. GMOs have always been subject to smear campaigns and unreliable information that have created real phobias among consumers. In Italy the Government have declared a ban on GMOs field testing.
Abroad, however, the new challenges of genetic engineering are increasing, such as the use of genetically modified animals for the production of pharmaceuticals and food products. It has therefore become important to approach the GMOs topic with a clear and responsible communication towards the consumers.
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health tobacco ban
It’s easy to say that there should be a ban on tobacco. But, till the farmers get an equally profitable option, it is a difficult step to take
- Annual loss of over Rs. 25,000 crore (over Rs. 19,000-crore excise duty and around Rs. 6,000-crore worth of foreign exchange) which accrue to the national exchequer on account of excise duty and export of raw tobacco and tobacco products.
- Loss of gainful employment to over 30 million farmers growing flue-cured Virginia (FCV) tobacco in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka and farmers growing beedi tobacco in Gujarat.
- Closure of around three dozen government offices belonging to the Indian Tobacco Board and Central Tobacco Research Institute (CTRI), employing around a thousand employees.