All posts tagged with harvest
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-(Natural News) While the rest of the country is panic buying because of the COVID-19 pandemic, those who have taken up home gardening and prepping aren’t too worried about possible food shortages. After all, if you have a home garden, you can harvest vegetables in your backyard. Now’s the time to start a home garden […]
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-(Natural News) In these troubled times, preppers can rely on their stockpile of supplies and a survival garden in their backyard or homestead. But if you’re not a prepper and you’re worried about your family’s future amid the coronavirus outbreak, learning how to start a vegetable garden is one way to address your fears of […]
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-(Natural News) There’s a reason why people “go bananas” and not any other fruit. It’s one of the most widely consumed fruits in the world — humans consume 100 billion bananas every year — and the most commonly referenced fruit in music. Because bananas are a fruit that so many people enjoy, it’s now in […]
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-(Natural News) Nothing epitomizes a warm, sunny day like the sound of bees buzzing peacefully from plant to plant in the garden. These little creatures do far more than provide us with delicious honey, however. Without bees and other pollinators, humans and other animals would cease to exist on our planet. The renowned poet Maurice […]
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-(Natural News) Do you worry about your plants being infested by pests? Try planting marigolds near them. Gardeners have practiced “companion planting” where marigolds are planted around tomato plants for protection against insects. This practice isn’t new, but its effectiveness is now backed by science. In a recent study, researchers from Newcastle University’s School of Natural […]
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-(Natural News) They say we need them to grow enough food for everyone on the planet. But the irony is that continuing to use them is actually killing off the bees and other pollinators we absolutely need to even grow food at all. Pesticides are what we’re talking about, here, and new research out of […]
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-(Natural News) While using machines to harvest crops isn’t a new concept, using a robot that does so through machine learning is. A team of engineers from the University of Cambridge developed a vegetable-picking robot that uses machine learning to harvest a commonplace, but challenging, agricultural crop: lettuce. The team, led by Cambridge’s Dr. Fumiya Iida, initially […]
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Researchers “shed light” on plants’ circadian clocks: Findings could be used to improve future crops
-(Natural News) Every person has a circadian clock, an invisible internal mechanism synchronized with solar time. This “clock,” according to the National Sleep Foundation, drives a person’s circadian rhythm, which regulates daily sleep-wake cycles. As it turns out, even plants have one, too. First discovered in 1729 by French geophysicist and chronobiologist Jean-Jacques d’Ortous de […] -
-(Natural News) A Missouri peach farmer has been awarded $265 million in a crop damage lawsuit after he says Bayer and BASF encouraged farmers to spray a difficult-to-control weedkiller in an irresponsible manner. Bill Bader sued the companies after thousands of his fruit trees were damaged by the herbicide dicamba, which drifted in from cotton […]
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-(Natural News) There is an intrinsic purpose for all of humanity, a purpose that has been lost, neglected and forgotten by many. Humans were designed to be good stewards of the land, and regenerative agriculture is the key to good stewardship. Regenerative agriculture encompasses many practical ways to preserve the bounty, the richness and the […]
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