Can anyone recommend some good resources/reading material for farming organic kale at commercial scale?
Extra double bonus points for greenhouse production....
What Happened to Antibiotic-Free Chicken? (civileats.com)
Aquaponics For Urban Living 🐟🌱🏙️ (slrpnk.net)
Aquaponics is similar to hydroponics, but makes use of fish to create fertilizer-rich (fish waste 💩) water for the plants to thrive. In turn, the plants help clean the water for the fish....
The Science Behind Red Nets: A New Dawn in Eco-Friendly Farming (scitechdaily.com)
“Recent research has shown that red nets are more effective than black or white nets in preventing onion thrip damage to crops, reducing the reliance on harmful chemical pesticides by up to 50%. This approach supports sustainable farming by minimizing environmental impact.”...
Ollas: Underground Watering Pot
If you are looking for a way to both conserve water but also have a healthy garden, an Olla might help....
Floating Island Garden (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15830343...
Beemats allows you to create floating wetlands of hydroponic plants (www.beemats.com)
The Science Behind It...
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)
EDIBLE FOREST GARDEN · Grow Food & Heal the Earth · Lessons Learned (youtu.be)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/9575309...
"What kind of dog do you have?" "A loam." (slrpnk.net)
Do Mushrooms Need Light To Grow? (www.youtube.com)
Growing Mushrooms in Buckets! Step-by-Step Guide to the Bucket Technique (youtu.be)
Food isn't Industrial - Why treating crops as an industrial product has wiped out nearly half the living world, and how treating it as an ecological partner can quickly heal it. (www.youtube.com)
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)
They Said It Couldn't Be Done, Cheap & Easy Hydroponic Tomatoes (youtu.be)
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
DIY vertical garden (www.youtube.com)
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.