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Improving Profitability & Family Farms: The On-Farm Composting Working Group

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Help us help you –  SymSoil is actively trying to shape emerging regulations to recognize the value of healthy soil.  The goal is to help family farms improve profitability by encouraging high quality on-farm composting and the restoration of soil biology.  SymSoil’s co-founder, Peter Hirst, is on several committees which are participating in the legal …

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Finally, Regulators Respond to Farmers’ Needs for On-Farm Composting

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There are more than a dozen agencies responsible for oversight of composting in California.  The current regulatory limits on materials and sale/distribution of finished compost have created an environment where most California farmers do not compost. Combined with other challenges, these regulatory limits have created a significant disincentive for farmers to use their agricultural waste …

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Soil Health – A Quick Low Cost F:B Ratio Analysis

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A tenet of biological farming with the soil food web is “Feed your soil and the soil will feed your plants”.  Applying management practices that develop and maintain desired microorganism levels and diversity, will feed the plants by cycling nutrients they need.  From a business standpoint, it’s important to know that applied material and labor …

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Robust Compost

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Robust Compost feeds plants the way nature intended with the complete soil microbe biome.  Sometimes called Living Soil, Soil Food Web compost or biocomplete compost, the full spectrum soil ecosystem includes bacteria, fungi, archaea, beneficial nematodes, amoeba, flagellates and micro-arthropods. Often it has other types of life, including animals (earthworms) and it may contain diatoms …

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