These two apples look equally great, but have you ever wonder if they are equally nutritious? Nutrient density of the same species of vegetables and fruits are not always the same! How can we know or compare the quality of vegetables and fruits then? Over the past year, we have gone through a series of […]
Category: News
農地的泥土碳封存 毫不起眼的泥土，居然儲存了比大氣層多三倍的碳！而在全球的土地之中，約四成都屬於農地，所以，地球上其實有很多很多泥土，恆常有人管理使用，以提供我們日常所需的食物和其他東西。你有想過，如這些土地使用者全部都好好照顧泥土，讓土地重拾碳封存能力的話，可以為環境帶來多巨大的變化嗎？ 2015年的巴黎氣候峰會中，法國政府提出千分之四倡議，將泥土視為一個緩解氣候變化的關鍵，到底泥土為甚麼有這個潛能呢？這短片或會令你對泥土和農田另眼相看！ Agricultural soil carbon sequestration Soil may receive little attention but it does have huge capacity for carbon storage, holding 3 times more carbon than the atmosphere! Of all the land on earth, roughly 40% belongs to agricultural land. The soil that is constantly managed and used to provide food and other resources […]
Categories
The strange-looking Bird’s Nest Fungi
They popped out from a wood chip pile on our farm! It seems that they look like kiwis rather than bird’s nest from the photo. How come they are named Bird’s Nest Fungi?? The “eggs” containing spores are actually hidden inside the immature brown hairy fruiting bodies, which will only open up when they reach […]
Categories
CARBON8 Launch in Australia
Carbon8 is a farmer-led initiative that is responding to the current impact of droughts, floods and desertification by supporting our farmers to increase the carbon in their soil and help them transition to regenerative agriculture.
Categories
A Forest Garden With 500 Edible Plants
Instead of neat rows of monoculture, forest gardens combine fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial vegetables together in one seemingly wild setting.