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The popularity of farming agave is taking off in California, with climate change motivating growers to consider planting drought-tolerant crops. With all that buzz, UC Organic Agriculture Institute ...
Worm farming can be done anywhere: Worm farms are very convenient since they’re clean, odor-free, and space-efficient. They ...
One of the optional tour sites is the Agromin compost facility on Arnold Road. Owned by USA Petroleum, this site was a mushroom farm until 2002, when two recently graduated UC Santa Barbara ...
Mushroom-based composting using spent mushroom substrate (SMS) in a livestock-crop-mushroom system enhances lignocellulose degradation, suppresses pathogens, and reduces antibiotic resistance ...