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Weed Management for Beginning Farmers

We have put together a short bulletin of weed management principles that we hope are useful for beginning small-scale vegetable farmers. It is available for downloading as a pdf file here:   BeginningFarmers. .

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Solarization and the Soil Microbiome

Grace Smith, Undergraduate in Molecular and Cellular Biology Sonja Birthisel, PhD Student in Ecology and Environmental Sciences Eric R. Gallandt, Professor of Weed Ecology and Management A soil microbiome consists of tiny organisms such as bacteria, archaea, fungi, and protists that impact plant life. Beneficial microbes decompose organic molecules, rendering them usable by plants and […]

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