The world relies on a range of services nature provides -- water filtration by forests pollination by bees and a supply of wild plant genes for new food crops or medicines.
LONDON (Reuters) - The world relies on a range of services nature provides -- water filtration by forests, pollination by bees and a supply of wild plant genes for new food crops or medicines.
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A MONTH OR SO BEFORE KILLING FROST, the vegetable-garden soil that fed me gets a meal, or at least the promise of one. I sow soil-sustaining cover crops (always from non-GMO, organic seed) as the various food crops are harvested, gradually turning my vegetable beds into mini-fields of winter cereal rye (above) and mammoth red [...] Related posts: asparagus: an all-male cast IT SHOULD COME AS NO SURPRISE, since it’s true so... what about lawns? A FRIENDLY SUGGESTION just filtered in as
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By Ed HowesHappy SlavesThe lowly earthworm, slaughtered by the trillions or zillions by chemical, corporate, money lover agriculture, is worth many times the pennies it costs to buy your starter stock, if they are not readily available for free. The profitable organic food producer raises them in controlled conditions to increase their rates of reproduction, foil predators and to prevent their escape. Worms are the cheapest labor you can get for your food crops. They work night and day tilling s
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