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Matthew Kroger
shared this 2 article 6 years ago
Topics: Soil Health, Agriculture US, Beekeeping,

Flowers not chemicals!

Farmers Are Using Flowers To Beat Back Pests Instead Of Chemicals

Farmers are using flowers instead of pesticides on some organic farms....

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Matthew Kroger
shared this 2 image 6 years ago
Topics: Soil Health,

Pollinators come in all shapes, sizes, colors and species. This is likely not what you pictured is it?

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Matthew Kroger
shared this 2 article 6 years ago
Topics: Soil Health,

🤔 Grasshoppers may be an unlikely alley in holistic management practices. We must start to consider the above ground insects in our holistic management methodologies and use them as we would grazing animals. Here we go again with diversity diversity diversity...

Insect herbivory accelerates nutrient cycling and increases plant production

Ecologists hold two views about the role of herbivory in ecosystem dynamics. First, from ...

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Matthew Kroger
shared this 2 article 6 years ago
Topics: Corn/Maize, Soil Health, Ethanol/Biofuel,

Here is the deal. Its not food anymore. It poison that your car burns. The kicker? The BTU exchange rate is barely a break even. Hence all the government subsidies and why the “Farm Bill” is breaking the bank every year. Stop the subsidies and start growing hemp...

Iowa Crops Look Like Food — But No One’s Eating - Heated

I was in Iowa last week shooting for the PBS NewsHour Weekend “Future of Food” series....

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Matthew Kroger
shared this 2 image 6 years ago
Topics: Soil Health, Beekeeping, Food/Nutrition, Food Waste,

🤔 I have been thinking about this for some time. Let’s talk veganism. As a honey bee steward and caring for bees, I have often wondered how anything a vegan eats can be considered cruelty free? After all the almond groves in California see the largest CAFO on the planet every spring. Migratory beeke...Read More

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Matthew Kroger
shared this 2 article 6 years ago
Topics: Soil Health, Beekeeping,

Plants and their immune system. We need A LOT more study on this and how these agrochemicals are effecting plants. Trees in specific as they can live literally hundreds to thousands of years.

Do Plants Have an Immune System?

It Depends on How You Define “Immune System” Plants get sick. That is, they can be inf...

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Matthew Kroger
shared this 2 article 6 years ago
Topics: Soil Health,

Food for thought in this circular world in which we live.

https://www.livescience.com/2333-earth-clouds-alive-bacteria.html

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Matthew Kroger
shared this 2 article 6 years ago
Topics: Soil Health, Beekeeping,

MOSQUITOS!
Mosquitos are very misunderstood. Most people think of mosquitoes only as insects that suck blood, but they have another niche in the ecosystem--they pollinate flowers. Male mosquitoes never bite, and the females need the protein in blood only to produce eggs, so the normal food of adult mosquitoes is actually nectar from plants.

http://www.mosquitoreviews.com/mosquitoes-niche-pollinate.html

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Matthew Kroger
shared this 2 article 6 years ago
Topics: Soil Health, Food/Nutrition,

Just Wow!

ALERT: Certified Organic Food Grown in U.S. Found Contaminated with Glyphosate Herbicide

ALERT! Think you can avoid glyphosate by buying organic? Think again. A shocking new inves...

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Matthew Kroger
shared this 2 article 6 years ago
Topics: Soil Health,

If this article does not help you understand the circularity of soil health and rain and everything in between nothing ever will. This is a beautifully written article please read, enjoy and share!

Healthy Soil & Microbes Make It Rain? | Garden Culture Magazine

Healthy soil doesn't just hold moisture longer, or make your plants more resistant to dise...

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Farmers Are Using Flowers To Beat Back Pests Instead Of Chemicals

Insect herbivory accelerates nutrient cycling and increases plant production

Iowa Crops Look Like Food — But No One’s Eating - Heated

Do Plants Have an Immune System?

ALERT: Certified Organic Food Grown in U.S. Found Contaminated with Glyphosate Herbicide

Healthy Soil & Microbes Make It Rain? | Garden Culture Magazine

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