Boost your garden’s productivity with intercropping! 🌱 Plant fast-growers like radishes or lettuce between slow-growers like broccoli or onions. You’ll harvest early crops while the bigger veggies take their time, making the most of your space and increasing yields. #GardeningTips #Intercropping
Boost your garden’s productivity with intercropping! 🌱 Plant fast-growers like radishes or lettuce between slow-growers like broccoli or onions. You’ll harvest early crops while the bigger veggies take their time, making the most of your space and increasing yields. #GardeningTips #Intercropping
If you are looking for interesting PhD positions around #agroecology, #intercropping and #robotics in the Netherlands or Denmark, have a look at this very interesting project:
https://roboticintercropping.eu/open-positions/
¡Diversidad en el tiempo y el espacio! Esa es una pieza fundamental del rompecabezas de la agroecología. Aquí, debajo de la yuca, la lechuga puede disfrutar de algunas semanas de luz solar directa y el agricultor obtiene una cosecha adicional de la misma parcela de tierra, ¡y no tiene que desmalezar tanto!

Diversity in time and space! That is a fundamental piece of the agroecology puzzle. Here, underneath the cassava (yuca), lettuce can enjoy some weeks of direct sunlight and the farmer gets an extra harvest from the same plot of land, and they don’t have to weed as much!

#intercropping #agroecologia #agroecology #campesinoacampesino #soberaniaalimentaria #foodsovereignty #diversity

Intercropping means better harvests! 🥬 🌱

Planting kohlrabi and lettuce together maximizes space. Fast-growing lettuce provides quick ground cover, suppressing weeds, while slower kohlrabi matures. This diversity boosts soil health and reduces pest pressure. #Intercropping #Sustainable #Gardening

Intercropping means better harvests! 🥬 🌱 Planting kohlrabi and lettuce together maximizes space. Fast-growing lettuce provides quick ground cover, suppressing weeds, while slower kohlrabi matures. This diversity boosts soil health and reduces pest pressure. #Intercropping #Sustainable #Gardening

#RegenerativeAgriculture Goes Mainstream

by Jan Lee Jul 10th 2025

"The world’s hottest year on record may also mark the beginning of the end for carbon-intensive, conventional farming. Several factors have converged to bring regenerative practices into the mainstream, while a new study demonstrates that farmers can produce just as much food while improving land productivity by transitioning away from conventional practices.

"#RegenerativeFarming first hit headlines as part of '#LivingSystemsThinking' in the 1960s, later gaining interest among health-conscious foodies when the concept was popularized by food author #MichaelPollan. Today, techniques such as #CoverCropping and integrated pest management are being embraced not only by #environmental activists but also by multinational food companies. The difference is that now, this approach is celebrated for its practical effectiveness in maintaining a consistent food supply in an era of #ClimateChange-driven supply shocks."

Read more:
https://earth.org/regenerative-agriculture-trends-and-impacts/

#FoodForAll #SolarPunkSunday
#Agroecology #RegenerativeFarming
#Intercropping #Polyculture #Resiliency #FoodSystems #ClimateChangeFarming

Regenerative Agriculture Goes Mainstream: Trends and Impacts

Regenerative agriculture can achieve similar yields to traditional farming while using much less nitrogen fertilizer and less pesticides.

Earth.Org

#RegenerativeAgriculture has its roots in #Indigenous farming

Strategic Intelligence
Fri, October 10, 2025

Excerpt: "While regenerative agriculture is growing in business settings as a method of reducing agricultural impact, and as an emissions reduction method, indigenous farmers have been responding to environmental stimuli and promoting non-intensive farming methods for millennia. Indigenous groups and farmers are the best guardians of the world’s #ecosystems."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/regenerative-agriculture-roots-indigenous-farming-142900539.html

#SolarPunkSunday #Agroecology #RegenerativeFarming #Agroforestry #Intercropping #Polyculture

Regenerative agriculture has its roots in indigenous farming

Consumer goods and foodservice companies are investing in regenerative agriculture to improve the environment and reduce emissions. Regenerative agriculture ...

Yahoo News
#Intercropping & #CropRotation are ancient #agricultural practices that increase yield & #DiseaseResistance in #crops. This Essay discusses the role of plant-derived metabolites & microbes in these systems and how they can contribute to #SustainableAgriculture
@PLOSBiology plos.io/4op7k6W

Paper of the week - week 42:

Bančič et al. 2021

Modeling Illustrates That Genomic Selection Provides New Opportunities for Intercrop Breeding

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2021.605172/full

#benediktspapersoftheweek #CropDiversification #intercropping #PlantBreeding

Frontiers | Modeling Illustrates That Genomic Selection Provides New Opportunities for Intercrop Breeding

Intercrop breeding programs using genomic selection can produce faster genetic gain than intercrop breeding programs using phenotypic selection. Intercroppin...

Frontiers