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Adrian UncAdrian Unc, agronomist and soil scientist, is a professor at the Memorial University and affiliated with the McGill University. His early research (University of Guelph) was critical to the Inquiry into the contamination of municipal drinking water in Walkerton ON. At the New Mexico State University, he established a soil-plant relationship program for arid land soils and crops, work still going on in the Southwest US and Middle East. This research has shown that soil and plant microbiomes are essential for plant resilience climate stresses. He established the first Canadian graduate program focused on northern (Boreal Ecosystems and Agricultural Sciences, BEAS). Currently he works on issues relevant to the fertility of northern soils, and the development of an integrated circumboreal research capacity to address the impact of climate change on northern agriculture and food security. Another New Mexico line of research, continuing today, is on decision support tools that facilitate the economical production of microalgae biomass under various conditions and for various bio-products.

 

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Starting Out With No Dig Gardening

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It’s Soil, Not Dirt

As a gardener and in the garden workshops I have been leading over the past eight years, I often hear people ask questions about dirt, meaning the ground in which ……

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One Third Of US Midwest Topsoil Lost To Erosion

New research, reported in the Yale Environment Review reports one-third of the topsoil in the US Midwest and NE is now gone, lost to erosion, compaction and salination.    This ……

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Regenerative Agriculture

Regenerative agriculture is all about soil: plants and animals putting carbon and nutrients back into degraded soil to rebuild life, absorb carbon and generate healthy food.    Australian farmers…

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