Fertilizer is becoming less prevalent as fertilizer prices go up, because there's less leeway to just throw it out movingly. I've always kind of erred towards the size of the side of organic,. In so doing, I feel like I'm reducing the exposure that I get to synthetic, you know, petroleum-based pesticides and things like that. But then everything you were saying about these plants, like they're less stressed, they develop less of these like polyphenol compounds.
Jessica Chiartas (@soil.life), founder of Soil Life, is a postdoctoral scholar and educator focusing on the long-term impacts of agricultural practices on soil health, with an emphasis on soil heterogeneity and the development of region-specific soil health indicators.
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