by Jennie Love | Jul 6, 2020 | Farming, Regenerative Agriculture/No-Till
As a follow up to my last post, No-Till Flowers Farming: The First Step to Regenerative Flower Farming, here are some practical lessons on no-till farming, be it flowers or other crops. Important to note is that we use the “deep mulch system” here at Love...
by Jennie Love | Jul 3, 2020 | Farming, Regenerative Agriculture/No-Till
I originally adopted the no-till approach to farming out of necessity. Well, desperation, really. An intensely rainy spring in 2018 kept me from being able to till the soil as usual and meant the only way to get transplants in the ground was to skip the tilling and...
by Jennie Love | Dec 18, 2019 | Farming, Regenerative Agriculture/No-Till
Christmas came early this week when our farm received its official paperwork for Certified Naturally Grown flowers! I was giddy to get my hands on that Certificate! I’m really delighted to have completed the rigorous certification process for Certified Naturally Grown...
by Jennie Love | Nov 5, 2019 | Farming, Regenerative Agriculture/No-Till
No-Till Tulip Planting Tulips have been a mainstay crop at my farm since the very first season. I remember learning about planting them for commercial production at the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers’ conference I attended that fall. My mind was blown...
by Jennie Love | May 30, 2019 | Farming, Regenerative Agriculture/No-Till
No-till flower farming is a system of farming that (nearly, if not entirely) eliminates the turning over of the soil, be it with machinery or by hand. There are many reasons that may spur a farmer to decide to go with no-till farming practices. Mine specifically were...
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