Cover crops in orchards
It takes an ecosystem to grow a tree. By Anna Mouton. We humans often describe a clean floor as one you can eat off. But a clean orchard floor starves soil organisms. Cover crops can boost diversity both above and…
Everything counts in large amounts
What are collembolans doing in your orchard? By Anna Mouton. Collembolans are among the most common animals on earth — they occur on every continent and in almost all terrestrial habitats. You can probably find somewhere between 10 000 and…
Life in earth
The underground movement that supports orchards. By Anna Mouton. Plants put a lot of energy into cultivating microbes. A significant portion of the sugars that plants make during photosynthesis is pushed out into the soil in the form of root…