Acres U.S.A., The Voice of Eco-Agriculture, April 2025 | Issue #646, Copyright 2025, 67 pages. Become an Acres U.S.A. Eco-Farmer Member here! Contents April 2025 • Issue #646 Photo: Vegetables Photo caption: (Eric Nordell) — Eric Nordell shallowly incorporates cover crops and short-term sod. On the cover: (Eric and Anne Nordell) — Alternating rows of lettuce and fall brassicas interseeded with a single row of rye at Beech Grove Farm in Pennsylvania in 2023. There was no hand weeding, irrigation or soluble fertilizer in this half-acre field. Read about Eric and Anne Nordell’s soil health testing experiments on page __. FEATURES Getting TestyWhile we’ve seen many improvements in our soil over the past forty years, more and better testing from the start would have alerted us to some underlying weaknesses in our soil management BY ANNE AND ERIC NORDELL Biologically Driven Water ManagementManaging soil in preference of biology affects how much water stays in our fieldsBY JON STIKA EM-1, Bokashi and VermicompostMicrobial allies for sustainable pest managementBY CRAIG HARTSOUGH Compost and Community Threefold Farm in New York may be the oldest continuously operating biodynamic farm in the country BY ANNELIESE ABBOTT DEPARTMENTS VIEW FROM THE COUNTRYMonthly musings from Acres U.S.A.’s editor Deliberate DisturbanceGood stewardship is not about minimizing disturbances, but about optimizing disturbances to produce the best ecosystem and productivity outcomesBY JOHN KEMPF ECO-UPDATENews in brief on developments in agronomic science REGEN AGRONOMYBefore and After Regenerative AgronomyA regenerative consultant looks back on three case studies from his conventional past and what he could have done differentlyBY CORY ST. CLAIR INTERVIEWPutting Eco-Agriculture in PracticeLongtime farmer and researcher Helen Atthowe discusses the possibilities and challenges of taking the established principles of eco-agriculture and making them work in commercial vegetable and fruit production REVIEWS MARKETPLACE CLASSIFIEDS ECO-MEETINGS ECO-GRAPHIC Become an Acres U.S.A. Eco-Farmer Member here!
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