This big beautiful non-native bug is a growing pest for Northeast U.S. gardeners & esp wineries
But a new study reveals an #agroecology answer: milkweed
This monarch butterfly fave intercropped w/ grapes kills 60-80% in 24 hrs: projects.sare.org/sare_project...
Might boost monarch numbers too?
But a new study reveals an #agroecology answer: milkweed
This monarch butterfly fave intercropped w/ grapes kills 60-80% in 24 hrs: projects.sare.org/sare_project...
Might boost monarch numbers too?
September 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This big beautiful non-native bug is a growing pest for Northeast U.S. gardeners & esp wineries
But a new study reveals an #agroecology answer: milkweed
This monarch butterfly fave intercropped w/ grapes kills 60-80% in 24 hrs: projects.sare.org/sare_project...
Might boost monarch numbers too?
But a new study reveals an #agroecology answer: milkweed
This monarch butterfly fave intercropped w/ grapes kills 60-80% in 24 hrs: projects.sare.org/sare_project...
Might boost monarch numbers too?
Greenhouse update🌱
June 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Greenhouse update🌱
I've found herbs never go amiss. Overpriced at most stores, grow pretty easily and in significant quantities and can often be intercropped with other stuff.
January 19, 2026 at 12:01 AM
I've found herbs never go amiss. Overpriced at most stores, grow pretty easily and in significant quantities and can often be intercropped with other stuff.
China is a leader in conserving agricultural heritage systems. My visit with T. Guo led us to tea gardens in Yunnan province. What looks like an untended plantation is actually a smallholder-managed & incredibly diverse agroecosystem of tea intercropped with buckwheat, flax, maize, sweet potato etc.
July 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
China is a leader in conserving agricultural heritage systems. My visit with T. Guo led us to tea gardens in Yunnan province. What looks like an untended plantation is actually a smallholder-managed & incredibly diverse agroecosystem of tea intercropped with buckwheat, flax, maize, sweet potato etc.
Highly recommend this spice company. Where we get most of our spices.
www.diasporaco.com/products/mad...
www.diasporaco.com/products/mad...
Madhur Jaggery
Grown in the historic, rain-fed, sugarcane-growing Daund region, our jaggery is grown and processed by Kantilal Randive, a well-known soil health expert. Our sugarcane is intercropped with dhaincha (s...
www.diasporaco.com
January 13, 2024 at 12:06 AM
Highly recommend this spice company. Where we get most of our spices.
www.diasporaco.com/products/mad...
www.diasporaco.com/products/mad...
When it rains, the greenhouse film acts like a huge condenser plate, so it just rains slower in the high tunnel.
Anyway, greetings from greenhouse #3
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Anyway, greetings from greenhouse #3
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May 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
When it rains, the greenhouse film acts like a huge condenser plate, so it just rains slower in the high tunnel.
Anyway, greetings from greenhouse #3
🌱
Anyway, greetings from greenhouse #3
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I had intercropped my fall plants - collards, kale and spinach, and they'd all started to come up nicely before I left for my shows
They left the collards, at least, but only three plants out of my nine
They left the collards, at least, but only three plants out of my nine
August 8, 2024 at 10:59 PM
I had intercropped my fall plants - collards, kale and spinach, and they'd all started to come up nicely before I left for my shows
They left the collards, at least, but only three plants out of my nine
They left the collards, at least, but only three plants out of my nine
IKEBANA INTERCROPPED
June 28, 2026 at 8:19 AM
IKEBANA INTERCROPPED
🌳 The #EARTHONE Pilot 3 in Italy explores how agroforestry enhances soil health, boosts carbon storage, and supports climate resilience. Poplar trees are intercropped with cereals, soybeans and maize to study soil quality, microbial activity, and emission reduction.
👉 earthone-project.eu
👉 earthone-project.eu
October 13, 2025 at 9:20 AM
🌳 The #EARTHONE Pilot 3 in Italy explores how agroforestry enhances soil health, boosts carbon storage, and supports climate resilience. Poplar trees are intercropped with cereals, soybeans and maize to study soil quality, microbial activity, and emission reduction.
👉 earthone-project.eu
👉 earthone-project.eu
Major ag climate solution agroforestry 🌎 noted on BBC Newshour & though they don't mention the term, the presenter does say 'agroecology' which is its big cousin
Beginning at minute 8, they discuss breadfruit intercropped with cacao, banana, pigeon peas, coconut: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Beginning at minute 8, they discuss breadfruit intercropped with cacao, banana, pigeon peas, coconut: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
January 10, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Major ag climate solution agroforestry 🌎 noted on BBC Newshour & though they don't mention the term, the presenter does say 'agroecology' which is its big cousin
Beginning at minute 8, they discuss breadfruit intercropped with cacao, banana, pigeon peas, coconut: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Beginning at minute 8, they discuss breadfruit intercropped with cacao, banana, pigeon peas, coconut: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Field mission in Buriram province, Thailand. 🧐 : effect of cassava intercropped with immature rubber on soil infiltration, soil water content, roots impacts, etc..
November 28, 2024 at 11:39 AM
Field mission in Buriram province, Thailand. 🧐 : effect of cassava intercropped with immature rubber on soil infiltration, soil water content, roots impacts, etc..
A coffee #agroforestry project in Malawi and Uganda is tackling some of the toughest challenges growers face there, @mongabay.bsky.social reports
Intercropped with fruit & other useful trees, shade grown coffee sequesters carbon while supporting biodiversity & expanding farmers' products & profits:
Intercropped with fruit & other useful trees, shade grown coffee sequesters carbon while supporting biodiversity & expanding farmers' products & profits:
Coffee agroforestry holds promise for smallholder growers in Malawi
RUMPHI, Malawi — In the villages below Nyika Plateau in northern Malawi’s Rumphi district, coffee rules. It’s one of the most common bushes in the region, grown in back and front yards or in open fiel...
news.mongabay.com
October 7, 2024 at 5:55 PM
A coffee #agroforestry project in Malawi and Uganda is tackling some of the toughest challenges growers face there, @mongabay.bsky.social reports
Intercropped with fruit & other useful trees, shade grown coffee sequesters carbon while supporting biodiversity & expanding farmers' products & profits:
Intercropped with fruit & other useful trees, shade grown coffee sequesters carbon while supporting biodiversity & expanding farmers' products & profits:
5) Intercropping: The different types!
Intercropping is when you grow multiple crops in the same field, and there's a few different types.
Intercropping is when you grow multiple crops in the same field, and there's a few different types.
April 13, 2026 at 5:03 PM
5) Intercropping: The different types!
Intercropping is when you grow multiple crops in the same field, and there's a few different types.
Intercropping is when you grow multiple crops in the same field, and there's a few different types.
Perfect weather for a field walk and talk in the @w-u-r.bsky.social surrounds. Potatoes, sorghum, intercropping, salinity stress, biodiversity, spiral strips(?)… we saw it all.
July 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Perfect weather for a field walk and talk in the @w-u-r.bsky.social surrounds. Potatoes, sorghum, intercropping, salinity stress, biodiversity, spiral strips(?)… we saw it all.
Recently I visited the Machakos area of Kenya and saw steep terraced hillsides, with the terraces protected by grasses and trees; maize being intercropped with leguminous perennials, residues being returned to the soil surface. And all this happening at scale, just so impressive!
February 26, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Recently I visited the Machakos area of Kenya and saw steep terraced hillsides, with the terraces protected by grasses and trees; maize being intercropped with leguminous perennials, residues being returned to the soil surface. And all this happening at scale, just so impressive!
Why these two in particular intercropped I mean!
July 14, 2023 at 1:34 AM
Why these two in particular intercropped I mean!
Delighted to announce our paper on the advantages of feeding maize and soybean silage on cattle live weight in Vietnam is finally published!
This is advantageous for producers as they are able to realise the benefit of intercropping on both soil and their animals
www.mdpi.com/2673-933X/4/...
This is advantageous for producers as they are able to realise the benefit of intercropping on both soil and their animals
www.mdpi.com/2673-933X/4/...
Feed Intake and Growth Performance of Vietnamese Yellow Calves Fed Silages from Intercropped Maize–Soybean and Guinea Grass
Combining soybeans with grass or biomass maize in silage holds promise in addressing the nutritional limitations of individual crops, providing a roughage with a good energy–protein balance. This stud...
www.mdpi.com
December 13, 2024 at 8:57 AM
Delighted to announce our paper on the advantages of feeding maize and soybean silage on cattle live weight in Vietnam is finally published!
This is advantageous for producers as they are able to realise the benefit of intercropping on both soil and their animals
www.mdpi.com/2673-933X/4/...
This is advantageous for producers as they are able to realise the benefit of intercropping on both soil and their animals
www.mdpi.com/2673-933X/4/...
***NEW***
Improving #soil chemical properties and tef (Eragrostis tef) productivity with Acacia decurrens-based fallow in northwestern Ethiopia
Tadele, Adgo & Meshesha
doi.org/10.1111/sum....
#soilscience #soils
Improving #soil chemical properties and tef (Eragrostis tef) productivity with Acacia decurrens-based fallow in northwestern Ethiopia
Tadele, Adgo & Meshesha
doi.org/10.1111/sum....
#soilscience #soils
January 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
***NEW***
Improving #soil chemical properties and tef (Eragrostis tef) productivity with Acacia decurrens-based fallow in northwestern Ethiopia
Tadele, Adgo & Meshesha
doi.org/10.1111/sum....
#soilscience #soils
Improving #soil chemical properties and tef (Eragrostis tef) productivity with Acacia decurrens-based fallow in northwestern Ethiopia
Tadele, Adgo & Meshesha
doi.org/10.1111/sum....
#soilscience #soils
I know the brown mustard we use at veg farm is allelopathic, which makes for a great cover crop but have never intercropped with it…usually allelopathy more so affects germination and seedlings but maybe taters can suffer as well, like other nightshades are very susceptible to black walnut juglone
July 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I know the brown mustard we use at veg farm is allelopathic, which makes for a great cover crop but have never intercropped with it…usually allelopathy more so affects germination and seedlings but maybe taters can suffer as well, like other nightshades are very susceptible to black walnut juglone
🌽A study from Ethiopia evaluated four #Eucalyptus species intercropped with #maize in hedgerow #agroforestry systems. See what the researchers found here ⤵️ doi.org/10.3897/bior...
March 30, 2026 at 8:02 AM
🌽A study from Ethiopia evaluated four #Eucalyptus species intercropped with #maize in hedgerow #agroforestry systems. See what the researchers found here ⤵️ doi.org/10.3897/bior...
ESCORT INTERCROPPED
September 28, 2026 at 10:19 PM
ESCORT INTERCROPPED
intercropping works -😏
Great study on oilseed rape intercropping with beans - reduced pests, disease and better yields.
"The yield of OSR intercropped with SFB was higher than monocropped OSR, while the other treatments did not affect yield"
scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Great study on oilseed rape intercropping with beans - reduced pests, disease and better yields.
"The yield of OSR intercropped with SFB was higher than monocropped OSR, while the other treatments did not affect yield"
scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Intercropping mitigates incidence of the oilseed rape insect pest complex
Intercropping reduces the incidence of the oilseed rape insect pest complex with a significant impact of the direct visual and physical disruption provided by the companion plant.
scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:28 AM
intercropping works -😏
Great study on oilseed rape intercropping with beans - reduced pests, disease and better yields.
"The yield of OSR intercropped with SFB was higher than monocropped OSR, while the other treatments did not affect yield"
scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Great study on oilseed rape intercropping with beans - reduced pests, disease and better yields.
"The yield of OSR intercropped with SFB was higher than monocropped OSR, while the other treatments did not affect yield"
scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
We're recruiting a Postdoc in Soil and Crop Sciences to work on the LEGUMINOSE Project during the final year to collect additional data in the field and the laboratory, undertake data analysis, write papers, and share the findings with stakeholders. Apply online: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
November 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
We're recruiting a Postdoc in Soil and Crop Sciences to work on the LEGUMINOSE Project during the final year to collect additional data in the field and the laboratory, undertake data analysis, write papers, and share the findings with stakeholders. Apply online: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Here is our latest journal publication.
Galland, Patrick D., Dutter, Cole R., Chen, Allen, Moore, Kenneth J., Fei Shui-Zhang. (2026). Summer-dormant, perennial groundcover has minimal effect on plant-available nutrients and no effect on maize yield. Agronomy J. doi.org/10.1002/agj2... OPEN ACCESS
Galland, Patrick D., Dutter, Cole R., Chen, Allen, Moore, Kenneth J., Fei Shui-Zhang. (2026). Summer-dormant, perennial groundcover has minimal effect on plant-available nutrients and no effect on maize yield. Agronomy J. doi.org/10.1002/agj2... OPEN ACCESS
Summer‐dormant, perennial groundcover has minimal effect on plant‐available nutrients and no effect on maize yield
Maize intercropped with perennial groundcover (PGC) can maintain grain yield and minimize nutrient and soil loss. We tested the effect of PGC on soil water and plant-available nutrients in a 3-year ...
doi.org
March 19, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Here is our latest journal publication.
Galland, Patrick D., Dutter, Cole R., Chen, Allen, Moore, Kenneth J., Fei Shui-Zhang. (2026). Summer-dormant, perennial groundcover has minimal effect on plant-available nutrients and no effect on maize yield. Agronomy J. doi.org/10.1002/agj2... OPEN ACCESS
Galland, Patrick D., Dutter, Cole R., Chen, Allen, Moore, Kenneth J., Fei Shui-Zhang. (2026). Summer-dormant, perennial groundcover has minimal effect on plant-available nutrients and no effect on maize yield. Agronomy J. doi.org/10.1002/agj2... OPEN ACCESS