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The Vegetable Gardener’s Guide to Crop Rotation - Modern Farmer (modernfarmer.com)

Australia's first solar garden is taking the renewables boom to the community (www.abc.net.au)

"What kind of dog do you have?" "A loam." (slrpnk.net)

Study highlights the potential of cyanobacteria as biofertilizers (phys.org)

Scientist taps into lobsters' unusual habits to conquer the more than 120-year quest to farm them (phys.org)

How Farmers Reshaped a Region and Solved Drought (yt.artemislena.eu)

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OpenSprinkler (opensprinkler.com)

Apparently it also integrates with Home Assistant: github.com/vinteo/hass-opensprinkler

Geothermal Greenhouse (www.reddit.com)

Microplastics found to enter agricultural land through wastewater (phys.org)

DIY How to Make Mycorrhizal Fungi Inoculant (moldresistantstrains.com)

Farmers Don’t Want to Throw Away Food | Ambrook Research (ambrook.com)

At the height of the pandemic, farmers were forced to dump millions of pounds of perfectly edible produce. Four years later, they still need help with their surpluses.

The Best Ways to Set Up a Seed-Starting Station in Your Home (lifehacker.com)

The 'dark earth' revealing the Amazon's secrets (www.bbc.com)

A Directory for Agricultural News and Information (open.substack.com)

Farmer’s plants grow year-round in geothermal greenhouse in upstate New York (yaleclimateconnections.org)

Using UV disinfection instead of antibiotics in poultry farming (phys.org)

Revolutionizing grape cultivation: AS-SwinT and the future of automated berry thinning (phys.org)

This vertical farming company raised $500m, and then it all but disappeared (sifted.eu)

How to Make Biofuel at Home (www.motherearthnews.com)

Lots of Options for Growing Potatoes | RED Gardens (vid.puffyan.us)

Village/agroforestry photobash in progress - what have I messed up? (imgur.io)

I’ve been working on the photobash I posted about apparently two months ago (jeez) and I think I’m getting close to being able to stop working on layout and start working on details. The problem is that the scope of this scene involves a lot of stuff, like agroforestry, that I only read about for making this picture, so I...

'It feels like I'm not crazy.' Gardeners aren't surprised as USDA updates key map (www.npr.org)

EU Commission to prolong use of glyphosate for 10 years after states fail to agree (www.lemonde.fr)

Glyphosate has proved divisive since the World Health Organization’s cancer research agency concluded in 2015 that it was probably carcinogenic to humans. Other agencies around the world, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and EU agencies, have classified it as non-carcinogenic....

Old Hedgerows are New Again as More Farmers Embrace Benefits (old video in body text) (modernfarmer.com)

Some midwestern fields are still bordered by hedgerows, but most US farmers don’t plant hedgerows and are skeptical of their benefits, worrying that they might introduce pests or predators to their farmland....