Category: mobile grow equipment

A unique feature of LBCG is that there are metal signs with QR codes in front the orchard

As a volunteer mentioned, patients are “prescribed by psychiatrists to come and garden.” Additionally, healthcare workers and veterans participating in the VA’s Compensated Work Therapy Program use the garden for growing food and taking breaks. Visitors are welcome to enjoy the garden at any time. Unlike most other UA sites that will be mentioned in […]

Future work on this topic will address if this critical window of exposure exists for plants

Plaques, a zone of clearing on the bacterial lawn, were construed as evidence for the presence of phage. Overall, we found very little evidence for the presence of either lytic or lysogenic phages that attacked any of our bacterial isolates. We did find some evidence for lysogens: 20% of bacterial isolates showed evidence for the […]

Sterilized seeds were then washed with sterile ddH2O three times to remove any excess bleach

The similarity of changes in community structure both across replicates and genotypes over the course of the passaging experiment led us to predict that these microbiomes were adapting to the local plant and greenhouse environment. To further determine if the community changes we observed from P1 to P4 were due to habitat selection rather than […]

The findings described in this dissertation make a small but significant step in this direction

The human immune system maintains a homeostatic relationship with commensals through numerous mechanisms, including stratification and compartmentalization of the intestine, production of a mucous layer and antimicrobial proteins, and limiting epithelial exposure and immune response. Two studies in Arabidopsis thaliana demonstrate that disrupting components of the plant immune system, such as the signaling molecules salicylic […]

The plant immune system is also important in shaping the non-pathogenic microbiome

Similarly, according to Tena’s chronography, the summer solstice took place toward the end of the sixth month, called Etzalqualiztli. At that time, sunrise would have seemed to stand still at an azimuth of ca. 65°. Viewed from the top of the Templo Mayor, sunrise would have taken place behind Tepetlaoxtoc, in the western foothills of […]

African-American groups have sought to reclaim and remold their rich heritage through urban farming

By crops, we mean either annual or perennial crops, including tree crops. At the field scale, DFS may include polycultures, noncrop plantings such as insectary strips, integration of livestock or fish with crops , and/or rotation of crops or livestock over time, including cover cropping and rotational grazing. Around the field, DFS may incorporate noncrop […]

There has also been significant analysis in farm structure changes of the dairy industry

Although dairy farm size can be characterized for the U.S. overall, there are important distinctions by state, as the dairy farm size distributions differ greatly by state. It is important to distinguish growth patterns of dairy farms by state. Macdonald et al. detail that larger dairy farms are able to capture economies of scale, more so […]