for sustainable production intensification
Dear Subscribers,
Please see an interesting communication on no-till garden in southern North Dakota (with a hyperlink to the photo) from Frank Kutka, North Dakota SARE Coordinator and Dickinson Research Extension Center Assistant Director, North Dakota State University.
I understand that no-dig or no-till gardening involving mulch and diversified crop associations is being practiced in many parts of the world, illustrating that CA principles work just as well at small or micro scales.
Amir Kassam
Moderator
Plant Production and Protection Division
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00153 Rome
Italy
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URL: www.fao.org/ag/ca
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From: Kutka, Frank <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:12 PM
Subject: no-till garden in southern North Dakota coming along very well
To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
Dear Amir:
Please note this lovely vegetable no-till garden in Selfridge, ND. Corie Lund and the others at the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service office there sprayed out a poor quality lawn this spring and then poked seeds and a few transplants into the ground. They did add extra water too, but this is clearly a huge leap forward from bindweed and dandelions without the expense of turning the area into dust and mud first. It has come a long way since the first photos I sent back in June and local folks are very impressed to see that no-till can be adapted to small acreages too.
Peace,
Frank
Frank Kutka
North Dakota SARE Coordinator and
Dickinson Research Extension Center Assistant Director
NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
Room 205
1041 State Ave
Dickinson ND 58601
phone: 701-483-2348, Ext 113
fax: 701-483-2073
www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/dickinso/
“We Hidatsa women were early risers in the planting season; it was my habit to be up before sunrise, while the air was cool, for we thought this the best time for garden work… weeds at this season are apt to have seeds, so that it was my habit to bear such weeds off the field, that the seeds might not fall and sprout the next season… When, therefore, we had a year of good crops, we put away seed enough to last for two years; then, if the next year yielded a poor crop, we still had good seed to plant the third season.” Maxi'diwiac (Buffalo Bird Woman) 1917
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