Sentences with phrase «highly fertile soil»

The geography of the Hudson Valley is immensely rich: The terrain features sandstone, red beds, granite cliffs, dense forests and charming lakes, as well as highly fertile soil for farming, such as in the Black Dirt Region created from an ancient glacial lake, and a rich biodiversity of flora and fauna.

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Their experiences, and the results that I saw on their farms in North and South Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Ghana and Costa Rica, offer compelling evidence that the key to sustaining highly productive agriculture lies in rebuilding healthy, fertile soil.
-- William Jarvis, Bethlehem, PA Biochar is a naturally occurring, fine - grained, highly porous form of charcoal derived from the process of baking biomass — and it's been associated with fertile soils for some two thousand years.
Volcanic eruptions have helped make Costa Rica's soil highly fertile, which directly benefits the growth of dense tropical rainforests.
The idea is based upon Amazonian indigenous practices, where highly fertile terras pretas (black soils) were created by burying charcoal over hundreds of years.
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