Sentences with phrase «build quality soil»

Not exact matches

An organic farm strives to protect our environment by building and maintaining healthy soil which, in turn, improves water and air quality.

Sustainable winegrowing practices help reduce water and energy use, minimize pesticide use, build healthy soil, protect air and water quality, recycle natural resources, maintain surrounding wildlife habitat, provide employee education, and communicate with neighbors about vineyard and winery operations.

There is a start - researchers from University of Washington marked the differences in carbon soil sequestration after the application of compost in 6 counties across California and further, the USDA has also worked to build, and will continue to improve upon, the COMET planner, which can help farmers implement soil carbon sequestering practices based upon their specific geographic and soil qualities.

Terraces, hugelkultur, floodbreak (aka windbreak) plantings, diversion channels, maintaining wild wetlands as sinks, building creekbed pathways, using orchards as buffers, impregnating poorer - quality soils with hydrophobic biochar, progressively alternating such features with dykes laid out to fractionally draw overflows and slow flow, proper programs of dredging and berming, and on and on, there is no reason a flood plain could not be made so robust by industrious (as opposed to industrial), intelligent, conscientious (as opposed to council consultant) planning as to be impervious to a 1,000 year flood, and oh by the way, make the land more profitably productive and lucratively livable, and more resistant to drought, wildfire, invasive species and extinction of native species too.

A&A considers themselves stewards of the forests they manage through supporting local communities, conserving wildlife, maintaining soil and water quality, creating jobs, and providing sustainable wood products that are used to produce environmentally responsible building materials.

Think organic and build in quality soil by doing research about what's in yours and amending it.