Sentences with phrase «soils produce foods»

Unfortunately, our depleted soils produce foods that aren't as nutritionally dense as they could be.

Not exact matches

«Employees sign up to deliver our compost by bike [obviously] to a local farm in Red Hook, Brooklyn [of course it's in Brooklyn], where it is turned back into the soil that produces the food we enjoy together.

Its website says it «cultivates the soil and the soul to produce food, to build and transform identities.»

It was estimated in the 1970s that, from the time human agriculture began to develop some 10,000 years ago, one half of the earth's food - producing soil had disappeared and a third of the remainder would be lost in the last quarter of the twentieth century.

This is because floods and forest fires are a natural method of mother earth to replenish her top soil to produce food.

Subsistence farmers depend on the soil to produce food for their families; they know the seasons and when rains will come to water their crops and allow seeds to send out roots.

And with good reason too — Divine Flavor produces high - quality, non-GMO foods grown in nutrient - rich, never over-farmed soil.

It leads to retention of fertile soil, which is capable of producing nutrient - dense, high - quality food.

They produce naturally dense food that have been sourced from some of the most remote and untouched corners of the earth, where the soil is rich in nutrients and has not been damaged by over farming and the use of agro chemicals.

It aims to produce food while establishing an ecological balance to prevent soil fertility or pest problems.

First, because healthy, rich, fertile soils produce nutritious and nutrient dense food.

Secondly, the messages delivered by all keynote speakers were uncompromising in their honest presentation of the reality that if Australia wants to have a secure food supply — and above all one based on a healthy diet, produced in ways that restore rather than further degrade soil, water tables and ecosystems — then business as usual is simply not an option.

It is estimated that 95 % of our food is directly or indirectly produced on soils.

The Soil Association was founded in 1946 by a group of farmers, scientists and nutritionists who were concerned about the way our food was produced.

We're seeing farms stripped of their productive soils, replaced by concrete and glass structures — not to produce food, but rather plants for Walmart.

Called odilorhabdins, or ODLs, the antibiotics are produced by symbiotic bacteria found in soil - dwelling nematode worms that colonize insects for food.

Soil can and does «die,» and then it is unable to produce food.

Botulism is a rare and often fatal paralytic illness due to a neurotoxin produced by Clostridium botulinum bacteria, which can appear in rotted, uncooked foods and in soil.

Integrating perennial plants with longer root systems among crops is an agricultural strategy that can simultaneously produce more food, and improve soil quality, said Jerry Glover, a senior sustainable systems advisor at USAID.

In his own lab, he is raising nematodes on soil enriched with different types of produce — sugary versus fibrous, for example — and finds that no matter what the food source and the resulting environmental microbial diversity, worms have similar sets of bacteria in their guts.

They sent soil samples for DNA testing, looking for matches with particular genes known to be found in microbes and fungi; they tried to stimulate microbial growth on a wide variety of substances and then count the cells produced; and they used highly sensitive radiorespiration activity assays, which involve feeding the soil microorganisms a food source which has been labelled with radioactive carbon, which can then be used to detect if the microorganisms are active.

He adds that keeping one's family healthy isn't the only reason to avoid foods produced using chemical inputs: «Pesticide and herbicide use contaminates groundwater, ruins soil structures and promotes erosion, and may be a contributor to «colony collapse disorder», the sudden and mysterious die - off of pollinating honeybees that threatens the American food supply.»

NEON collects and produces data on precipitation patterns, soil and groundwater dynamics, interactions with vegetation, and processes such as nutrient cycling and food web dynamics in aquatic ecosystems to support the comprehensive study of water cycles throughout diverse ecosystems.

Geochemistry — the science of the reactions in the atmosphere, the oceans, the soil and deep underground — affects everything from recovering oil to producing food.

Healthy soil produces healthy food.

We believe there should also be a list of natural things and practices that plants and soil need to be produce healthy and healthful foods.

First, because healthy, rich, fertile soils produce nutritious and nutrient dense food.

And with good reason too — Divine Flavor produces high - quality, non-GMO foods grown in nutrient - rich, never over-farmed soil.

And creating the ability for the soil to produce nutritious food for years.»

But until we can replenish our soils and eat produce freshly picked in season, supplementation can be a tool to help aid for the shameful lack in our foods.

Acarbose is a natural substance produced by bacteria in soil and can make higher glycemic foods act more like lower glycemic foods.

Willamette Farm and Food Coalition (WFFC) connects consumers to local farmers, ranchers, and processors and the delicious foods they produce from the Willamette Valley's fertile soils.

This growth is typically produced in soil or growing from its food source.

I am strongly convinced that actually growing them in soil is far easier and produces far more nutritious and abundant food.

Toxins are potentially harmful substances we come into contact with every day — from pesticides on your produce, pollutants in the air, unpronounceable ingredients in processed foods, cleaning products, and even heavy metals like mercury and arsenic in the soil, just to name a few.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) dictates that organic foods must be produced by farmers who «emphasize the use of renewable resources and the conservation of soil and water to enhance the environmental quality for future generations.»

I got thinking about it since you've included iodine, and the two of them have roles in up - and down - regulating the thyroid, and lithium seems to have some benefits that might prompt one to want to get some more of it (or any of it at all, should ones food sources somehow be lacking it, much like a lot of commercial soil has come to lack iodine over the years, thereby yielding iodine - poor produce).

I've been amending the soil for a decade and learning what does and doesn't work to actually produce food in my garden.

Trace minerals are essential for mammals, period; but, certain times of the year can produce certain deficiencies in crops, due to deficiencies in the soil, which lead to trace mineral deficiencies in those ingredients used for pet food.

In our decaying world where soils devoid of nutrients are producing plants and animals with vitamin and mineral deficiencies, we must realize the solution is NOT to fill the gap with synthetics, but rather seek out whole food sources.

Because the climate and soil in Toledo are idyllic, entrepreneurs set about planting cacao terroir, a unique bean capable of producing some of the most delicious chocolate food products on the planet.

Night Soil # 3 / Nocturnal Gardening, which examines radical and innovative ways to produce food, has its premiere at Foam.

He had to have an engineer figure out the amount of stress a roof with wet soil could handle and then with that knowledge, he laid out beds and was able to produce an abundance of food.

Unless everyone is producing their own food in their back yard, renewing the soil every year from biomass, which we know now is physically impossible given the population of the Earth, then it simply won't work.

That is because extensive rather than intensive farming demands more soil, with higher levels of taint and pollution in the rivers and lakes, per unit of food produced.

He calculated that remineralizing the soil with river, seashore, mountain and glacial rock dust, would enable American agriculture to produce four times as much food or the same amount with a 25 % reduction in cost, without the need for pesticides or chemical fertilizers.»

Regenerative farming's purpose is to fight climate change and to produce healthier, regenerative food by building healthier soil.

Soil loss is not a good thing because degraded soils produce less food.

And when they are, cities can perform the essential service of 21st century urbanism: creating regenerative buildings and landscapes that produce more good for more people rather than places that are merely less bad: More clean energy, more fresh water, more fertile soil, more food, more productivity, more biodiversity — more health and well - being for all.

Even more for N2O production: Extra growth of plants under extra CO2 produces more food for bacteria around the roots, promoting N2O production from nitrates in the soil.