http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/20101...rganic-no-till
Jeff Moyer -- Championing organic no-till
Preserving the health in the soil while eliminating weeds.
Jeff Moyer has been farm manager/director at the Rodale Institute for
more than 28 years, has served as chair of the USDAšs National Organic
Standards Board, and is a founding board member of Pennsylvania
Certified Organic. He has also been working on perfecting an organic
no-till system that reduces and even eliminates both tillage and the
herbicides on which most no-till systems are dependent.
What tool couldnšt you live without?
Cover crops. They are the biological tools that are the keys to success
of our farm.
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No till has worked for me for the last 2 years, although I'm in a
quandary about what to do with the potatoes. I hate digging up the soil
and ruining all of the earthworm's labors (not to mention the
mycorrhiza). Maybe it's not so bad, if it only happens every 5 years or
so.
I still have some pepper plants, but they have looked better.
Rain in the garden today (50F/39F).
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- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyE5wjc4XOw
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/j...acks_1-5-09.ph
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