Soil Health and Deep Plowing Under The Tuscan Sun

Soil Health and Deep Plowing Under The Tuscan Sun

Italy to many, is the birthplace of farming with a soil nomenclature system dating from 500 AD. In the mere distance of Maine to North Carolina they have all four major soil temperature groups – frigid, mesic, thermic and hyperthermic and 4-times the soil unit...
Unlocking the key: Soil CO2 respiration and field conditions

Unlocking the key: Soil CO2 respiration and field conditions

Interesting and potentially very valuable relationships between CO2 respiration and soil conditions have recently been revealed in a soil monitoring project using the Solvita basal CO2 test.  At the Woods End Farm, staff take a soil sample each week and perform...
Soil CO2 Respiration: It’s More than Soil Health

Soil CO2 Respiration: It’s More than Soil Health

Soil CO2 respiration should be center-stage in the emerging Soil Health discussion, according to Brinton who addressed a recent Soil Renaissance gathering in Oklahoma City. He showed early data from the Swedish soil ecologist Lundegårdh who first quantified plant CO2...