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Jul 6, 2025

RHS
"Recycling your garden waste into home-made compost is both easy and environmentally friendly. Here we look at the basics of making this valuable soil improver and mulch."
https://www.rhs.org.uk/soil-composts-mulches/composting

#Composting #Compost #Gardening #SolarPunkSunday #Waste #Horticulture #GardeningMastodon #RHS #SoilQuality #SoilBiodiversity #SoilRemediation #Recycling #Mulch

Composting / RHS

Recycling your garden waste into home-made compost is both easy and environmentally friendly. Here we look at the basics of making this valuable soil improver and mulch.

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CelloMom On Cars Jul 5, 2024

A study in Germany and Luxembourg "has shown for the first time that #permaculture brings about a significant improvement in #biodiversity, #SoilQuality and #CarbonStorage.

According to the study, the soil quality and biodiversity on the permaculture plots was distinctly higher compared to the surrounding conventional agricultural land as well as compared to the literature values for conventional agriculture."

https://phys.org/news/2024-07-permaculture-sustainable-alternative-conventional-agriculture.html

Permaculture found to be a sustainable alternative to conventional agriculture

RPTU University of Kaiserslautern-Landau has shown for the first time, in a joint study with BOKU University, that permaculture brings about a significant improvement in biodiversity, soil quality and carbon storage.

Phys.org

💧🌏 Greg Cocks Nov 10, 2023

Smart Irrigation Technology Covers "More Crop Per Drop"
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https://news.mit.edu/2023/gear-lab-creates-affordable-user-driven-smart-irrigation-controller-1025 <-- shared technical article
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“Placing solutions in the cloud but learning with boots on the ground, GEAR Lab researchers build low-cost, solar-powered irrigation tools to make precision agriculture more accessible..."
#water #waterresources #hydrology #irrigation #smartirrigation #GEAR #MIT #agriculture #farming #global #watermanagement #watersecurity #solarpowered #precisionagriculture #subsistencefarmers #crops #foodproduction #waterscarcity #soilquality #smallholder #farms #farmers #waterstress #sustainableagriculture #dripirrigation #MoreCropPerDrop #appliedscience #appliedtechnology

Smart irrigation technology covers “more crop per drop”

MIT Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab researchers build low-cost, solar powered irrigation tools to make precision agriculture more accessible to small farms.

MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ferdi Magellan Jul 23, 2023

#ClimateEmergency #GlobalHeating #USPol #FoodShortages #WaterQuality #AirQuality #SoilQuality

“Recently, after a series of extreme heatwaves in California forced her family to run the AC, her monthly electricity costs rose to about $500. Her water bill averages around $100, but because the water is contaminated with pesticides from nearby agricultural fields, her family spends an additional $140 each month to purchase jugs of drinking water. Her grocery bills have gone up as well, after a spate of winter storms disrupted harvests across the state.”

From: @RebelGeo
https://mastodon.social/@RebelGeo/110761256625727898

NIOO-KNAW Jul 21, 2023

New NIOO publication: #Phosphorus-mediated succession of microbial #nitrogen, #carbon, and #sulfur functions in rice-driven saline-alkali soil remediation. #rice #soilquality #phosphorusavailability #energymetabolism #shotgunmetagenome
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.109125

EU Research Results May 16, 2023

Listen to the latest episode of #CORDIScovery to dig out valuable research on #SoilQuality & #FoodSecurity. 🔊

Our guest Juan Suárez unfolds how Earth observation technologies can help improve food security and sustainable development. 📡

🎧 https://europa.eu/!73ypkb

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CORDIS_EU/status/1658444554813440001

Soil quality and food security

News article from ongoing EU Research projects

CORDIS | European Commission

Three Percent Earth Foundation Dec 13, 2022

Our recent posts have tried to highlight some existing #agricultural #pesticides issues w/in #ASEAN. Like the #ClimateCrisis, the pesticides problem is both ubiquitous and existential, i.e., #food production. Wholesale tolerance/acceptance of it is insidious,
1. It degrades food's nutritional value
2. It readily impacts #SoilQuality #biodiversity and #EcosystemServices
3. It exploits occupational health-related disparity among #migrantworkers
4. Its industry profits in the name of #foodsecurity

European Economic and Social C Oct 28, 2022

Around 75% of plants high in protein are imported.

#Plantprotein production must be expanded to:
🌱improve #SoilQuality
🌱decrease fertilizer use
🌱develop #RuralAreas.

Our recommendations for EU protein & oil strategic supply autonomy ➡ http://europa.eu/!ffCjrC

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_EESC/status/1585569611558305792

Towards a sustainable plant protein and plant oil strategy for the EU

The aim of this own-initiative opinion is to develop a strategy to achieve a sustainable plant protein and plant oil open autonomy in the EU by analysing the potential of EU-grown plants. It will also discuss the potential of pure plant oil as a sustainable source for running heavy tractors and other agriculture and forestry machines in a sustainable energy system.

European Economic and Social Committee