Sentences with phrase «covers healthy soil»

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California winegrowers use cover crops and compost in the vineyards to enrich healthy soils with biomass and vibrant populations of microbes and worms and to prevent erosion and attract helpful insects that prey on pests.

Organic farmers increase organic matter in soil through the use of cover crops, compost and biologically based soil amendments, producing healthy disease and insect resistant plants.

Farmers use green manure and employ cover crops that build healthy soil and attract beneficial insects.

Their impact on the land restores a healthy soil microbiome, increases the density of plants that cover the land surface, and — when incorporating perennial and native forages or trees — are able to store even more carbon deep underground, increasing its long - term stability.

The new plant features skylights for daylighting the factory floor and a 10 - acre roof covered with healthy soil and growing plants.

Also, the benefits of no - till sequestration are tripled when combined with the planting of winter cover crops which are used in organic farming to maintain a healthy soil.