Valley Bounty: Taking no-till approach at Hadley's Astarte Farm

‘It’s basically like a landslide,” Amelia Mead says of tilling the soil. It resets the soil ecosystem to a state of just-post-disaster — a blank canvas on which crops and weeds fight for control. Meanwhile underground, dazed soil organisms begin...

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