The work of staying healthy in community Food crops get viruses also, as well as bacterial and fungal infections. Often insect pressures on plants piggy back on such stressors, along with nutritional imbalances. Chemical agriculture attempts to cheat these forces with fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides and herbicides. Their positive impacts are short lived and myriad negative […]
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Stronger Together
April 27, 2020 – 12:45 pm
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Three Sisters
August 9, 2017 – 10:59 am
Corn, beans, and squash create a special alchemy together in the field and on the plate. In legend, the plants were a gift from the gods, always to be grown together, eaten together, and celebrated together. This companion planting trio was widespread across North America and the Iroquois label, “three sisters”, is woven into contemporary gardening […]
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