Harry Klee, a researcher at the University of Florida published insights into improving tomato flavor in a 2012 article in Current Biology. Klee believes good tomato flavor is a complex panorama of sugars, acids, and mysterious gassy chemicals that we experience as smell. Klee and his colleagues are still identifying those “aroma volatiles.” Reviewing 152 …
Since you are here, reading about SymSoil™ you probably already know that life as we know it is dependent upon the top six inches of the planet. The key message was alarming: Unless new approaches are adopted, the global amount of arable and productive land per person in 2050 will be only a quarter of the level …
Are you considering farming as a career? You are not alone. Millennials turning to a farming career are changing the demographics of American Farmers, pushing down the average farmer’s age, along with the rate of farms shutting down. This is helping small and family farms remain in existence. People under 40 have taken the lead …
NPR’s Dan Charles, on All Things Considered/Food For Thought talks to scientists about soil microfauna. These scientists are focused on understanding and describing the most common ones. They miss the point. There are more than a billion different species in a handful of healthy soil. Finding a small number of “important ones” does not replace the …