Helen Atthowe of Woodleaf Farm & Author of The Ecological Farm
Growers Daily
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How to Increase Nutrient Cycling in Your Fields
Instead of adding Nutrients every year how I could also get some nutrient cycling going on so we We would do strip tillage. The living mulch system where the the row-middles were closed or covered with clover from Oh, oh by the time I would seed every year I would I would chill and then make the beds and then seed the living mulches. It created overwintering sites for Some of the resident beneficial insects that then didn't have to move in every year. They were already there spiders many species of spiders and ground beetles,. carobid beetles and road beetles and parasitic wasps.
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