Sentences with phrase «into rich soil»

As this 14 - gallon vermicomposter fills up with organic refuse, it has ample space for your students» attention while the worms process waste into rich soil components.

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Beantown Bedding's Laundry - Free Linens are nonwoven, soft, plant - based sheets that the founders say can last up to 40 nights, and then are compostable — meaning you can actually bury the sheets in your backyard and they will breakdown into a pile of nutrient - rich soil.

Up and down its narrow valleys and across its great plain went the pomp and panoply of the ancient world, and its more commonplace traffic as well: rich argosies from far Babylon, carrying the wares down to Egypt; royal messengers of the great kings who ruled in Persepolis, bearing decrees for the officer in charge at the frontier station of Assouan; plenipotentiaries of Hatti and of Egypt, seeking a modus vivendi in the political stresses of the thirteenth century; conquerors with their chariots and footmen and their tale of atrocities behind and yet before; wandering bands of foot - loose adventurers, seeking a good land where they might strike roots into the soil - all these and hosts of others were led among the Palestinian hills where went the great trunk roads of the ancient world, camped in the plains, bartered in the little cities, or stayed to lay permanent claim to some hit of the land.

Our large - scale composting program converts tomato - processing waste into nutrient - rich soil for independent organic farmers.

The bioconversion process takes organic waste streams from food factories, supermarkets, farms and restaurants, and recycles these into valuable products: an insect based complete protein — MagMeal ™, an extracted fat — MagOil ™ and a rich residual soil conditioner — MagSoil ™.

Tray - grown greens rely on grow lights and fertilizers, whereas the roots of our field - grown greens push deep into the soil of our farm during cold winters, infusing our plants with the richest organic nutrients.

The trick, of course, to getting compost to work and breakdown into that coveted nutrient - rich soil is to have the right combination of both green and brown matter.

Composting can be a great way to recycle your organic waste and turn it into rich, nutritious soil for your garden.

Each spring in the Arctic, the freshet — flooding triggered by melting snow — washes vast amounts of carbon - rich soil from the land into the water — both fresh water and the ocean.

Since epiphytes are cut off from the rich pool of forest floor nutrients, each species has to extract what it needs from the air, rainwater and scant canopy soil, with hundreds of plants tapping into the same 1 - inch acidic layer that forms from decomposing organic material.

It could also dampen existing soils, stopping iron - rich dust from blowing off the Sahara and into the Atlantic Ocean, where it nourishes sea life, the study points out.

At the Minoan site, Evershed and his team detected increased proportions of 5β - stanols as they dug deeper into the soil, suggesting that the archaeologists were right in their guess that the older layers were rich in manure.

Named HCR1, this gene reduces water entry into the roots when there's a lack of oxygen, but only when the soil is also rich in potassium, a mineral salt essential for plant growth.

They also collect iron - rich magnetic materials within these layers, which originated in overlying soil and are transported into the cave during precipitation and flooding events.

As temperatures rise, nutrient - rich permafrost — a frozen layer of soil — thaws, releasing nutrients into ponds and enhancing plant growth.

As the permafrost disappears, carbon - rich material like grass roots, once trapped in icy soil, sinks to lake bottoms, where bacteria convert it into the greenhouse gas methane.

They include sea level rise, which is pushing saltwater into freshwater marshes and causing their peat - rich soils to collapse, and drought caused in part by the diversion of freshwater into South Florida's booming metro areas.

Rather than throw food scraps, paper, lint, and myriad other items into the trash, we dump them into our compost to gradually turn into rich, dark soil.

100 years ago, farmers used to put rich compost back into the soil as fertilizers.

Not to be confused with standard green tea, matcha is typically shade - grown in Japan, where fresh water and fertile soil provide the perfect conditions for the nutrient - rich leaves that are then ground into powder form.

Our bad habits exacerbated famines and followed us to the United States, where we turned some of the richest soil in the world into the Dust Bowl, and decimated the breadbasket of our country in just shy of 150 years.

The students transformed their bacteria into single - celled superheroes using the comic strip format and designed pamphlets about how their bacteria help make soil nutrient - rich.

NNN often appears basic on the surface but under the immediate crust are layers of rich soil, precious gems, and rare earths that can be mined and refined into the opportunities that drive positive life - altering relationships and classroom culture.

Our rich, wet soil turns every winter burial into a spring planting.

It nicely sums up her tone and symbolism in this book: «When I plunged my hands into the black New England soil, I felt I was touching a rich nourishment that I hadn't had since I was a small child.

San Joaquin Valley, with its rich fertile soils, is considered the bread basket of California and leads into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

However, Chile's superb wine climate, rich soil and booming economy have turned the region into an untapped wine lover's paradise.

REASON # 8 the fact that it is crescent - shaped and is divided into two ecosystems: on the western side it has dense vegetation with rich fertile soil and on the eastern section it sustains coconut palms and other vegetation.

For this, «Wasted» went to New Orleans, where a school gardening program teaches kids how to turn their food scraps into nutrient - rich soil.

Not only are burning trees sending millions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere, perhaps even worse are the flames consuming peatland, a rich soil - like earth made up of decomposing organic material that can store as much as 3,300 tons of carbon per hectare.

Enduring carbon sequestration CarbonSync ™ biochar returns atmospheric carbon into a rich material that improves soil.

Every year, 230 tons of food scraps and coffee grounds are locally composted into nutrient - rich soil.

Thawing permafrost also delivers organic - rich soils to lake bottoms, where decomposition in the absence of oxygen releases additional methane.116 Extensive wildfires also release carbon that contributes to climate warming.107, 117,118 The capacity of the Yukon River Basin in Alaska and adjacent Canada to store carbon has been substantially weakened since the 1960s by the combination of warming and thawing of permafrost and by increased wildfire.119 Expansion of tall shrubs and trees into tundra makes the surface darker and rougher, increasing absorption of the sun's energy and further contributing to warming.120 This warming is likely stronger than the potential cooling effects of increased carbon dioxide uptake associated with tree and shrub expansion.121 The shorter snow - covered seasons in Alaska further increase energy absorption by the land surface, an effect only slightly offset by the reduced energy absorption of highly reflective post-fire snow - covered landscapes.121 This spectrum of changes in Alaskan and other high - latitude terrestrial ecosystems jeopardizes efforts by society to use ecosystem carbon management to offset fossil fuel emissions.94, 95,96

South Texas, Louisiana and other states along the Gulf Coast are especially rich in natural resources, which makes this region a target for large - scale gas and oil operations, as well as corporations looking to profit from the mineral riches by drilling deep into the soil.

This fort is facing a problem of water seeping out into the clay - rich soil, it was built of.

Instead, it will turn into healthy, nutrient rich soil right in your yard or compost space.

When planting in beds, mix compost into the soil to provide rich nutrients for the bulbs to start flourishing.