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Dave&Anne

@Dig2Grow

David Montgomery & Anne Biklé. It's a tangled relationship - soil, nature, and people. The saga continues in our latest book, What Your Food Ate.

 Seattle, WA
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Joined April 2014
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Come and join us for Ecdysis Foundation and Blue Dasher Farm’s field day! Spread the word!
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Unseen and hidden effects of pesticides: pesticide suppress natural soil fertilizers. Our new study in @NaturePortfolio demonstrates that pesticides suppress the natural nutrient uptake capacity of beneficial mycorrhizal fungi with 42%. nature.com/articles/s41559-0…
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First they want to get rid of farms and grow everything inside, then get rid of farmers by investing in robots. Now they're figured out how to grow food with no sun. phys.org/news/2022-06-artifi…
Artificial photosynthesis can produce food without sunshine

Artificial photosynthesis can produce food without sunshine

Photosynthesis has evolved in plants for millions of years to turn water, carbon dioxide, and the energy from sunlight into plant biomass and the foods we eat. This process, however, is very ineffi...

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Having gardened organically for more than two decades, I’d always added compost to my beds. I also planted cover crops... But now, with no till, I was taking the final step toward “regenerative agriculture.”" FERN's latest Back Forty. By @fromartz thefern.org/blog_posts/back-…
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How to Visualize Qualitative Data: #Organic #regenerative farming compared to Conventional.
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This promises to be a really wonderful conversation. The Hidden Half of Nature by @dig2grow was one of the most revelatory books I read when I was researching #sitopia. Do join us at the #Kitchentable on the 23rd March for a deep dive into microbes, soil and human health!
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Do join us at the next #KitchenTable for conversation with David Montgomery and Anne Bikle
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kate frey@katebfrey30 Nov 2019
Why can’t more parking areas be this fun? As seen near Glenorchy in New Zealand
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Replying to @billmckibben @soil4climate @regeneration_in @judithdschwartz @CarbnUndrground @kissthegroundCA @PaicinesRanch @CSUChicoRegenAg @RodaleInstitute @Dig2Grow @SavoryInstitute @soilnotoil @QuiviraAgRanch @tomkat_ranch @rebuildsoil @RegenerativeSol
There's no shortage of fresh water. There's a shortage of healthy soil that will absorb it and methods & practices that build such soil. Maybe read a few of the many excellent writings, including entire books, by some of the people tagged. Start with "Water in Plain Sight".
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@Dig2Grow good comprehensive read on N in its different forms, using N efficiency and profits per acre as primary metrics to measure effectiveness ecofarmingdaily.com/build-so…
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Soil is the key to our planet's history (and future) nationalpost.com/wcm/1235c02… via @nationalpost cc. @dig2grow
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In this episode, Kara Kroeger, a sustainable agriculture specialist with NCAT’s ATTRA sustainable agriculture talks w. agro-ecologist Nicole Masters attra.ncat.org/understanding… cc. @Dig2Grow
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Saving #Bees With #Fungal #Extracts; The Pharmacy Of The #Forest Floor. The #SecondaryMetabolites many #fungi produce have an insane amount of pharmacological potential for the immune systems of other invaluable species. forestfloornarrative.com/blo… vía @ForestNarrative | @PaulStamets
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The Biggest Little Farm coming soon. – at Frankfort, KY
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Excited to see this film coming out! youtube.com/watch?v=UfDTM4Jx…
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Happy #WorldBeeDay everyone. Take a minute to appreciate a pollinator, like this huge carpenter bee helping to produce your morning coffee. Thanks to @IPBES too for summarizing what we know! @GundInstitute @CATIEOficial – at Costa Rica
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@IPBES20 May 2019
Without pollinators, we would not #Bee 🐝 able to grow many of the world's essential crops! #WorldBeeDay Give #Bees a chance! #Pollination #foodsecurity
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Woman at the coffee shop noticing my Molecular Ecology textbook: "Oh wow, I do not envy you having to learn that" Me: "Hopefully my students feel differently..." Her: "Oh...Oops...I mean..."
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Switch from hunting to herding recorded in ancient pee @columbia @ScienceAdvances phys.org/news/2019-04-herdin…
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@BugLundgren is coming to ILLLLLLLinois! May 1st in Normal Regenerative Agriculture, Pollinators and Beekeeping Sponsored by @PrairieRivers and the IDEA Farm Network
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Maxym Reva@MaxymReva4 Sep 2018
Inoculation and/or co-inoculation #artichoke plants with beneficial #arbuscular #mycorrhizal fungi #Rhizophagus irregularis and beneficial bacteria (#PGPR) could be considered an effective and #sustainable tool to enhance #yield and yield components. goo.gl/8eWnJK
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The idea that microorganisms in the human gut could influence the brain was often dismissed as wild. Not any more. go.nature.com/2I1qh00
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