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 health testing demands a new understanding of soils

Soil health testing demands a new understanding of soils

Soil health testing needs its own set of calibrations and guidelines in order to have its potential fully realized. This has come into focus recently with studies on how soils behave biologically. Normally, when a soil dries out, a sudden addition of rain or...