Field Notes August 2019
Drought conditions are currently mild for this time of year, but August is still a month when water is often on people’s minds.
For this issue, we’ve collected several of the Kerr Center’s most popular water management resources.
We also share the schedule of a traveling Smithsonian museum exhibit on water that’s currently making its way around the state.
If you missed last month’s elderberry workshop, we’ve also got a rundown on its essentials to help you get caught up.
But first, check out David Redhage’s thoughts on how old tools are sometimes still the best.
Field Notes – August 2019 (PDF, 700 KB)
According to newly published research, fertilizer industry methane emissions are one hundred times higher than previously reported. Cattle on pasture release less methane and need less fertilizer!
Anyone who’s attended a Kerr Center horticulture workshop in the last umpteen years has been exposed to the idea that crop rotations confer numerous benefits both on the soils they’re carried out on, and on the crops that grow in those soils. Studies hot off the academic presses have just added more support to the notion.
