Sam Knowlton
Agronomy consultant to leading ag and food companies β specialty crops, coffee, cacao, agroforestry. @soilsymbiotics & @somafarmgroup
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The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) is an innovative and holistic agriculture method used to grow rice. Compared to conventional irrigated rice farming, SRI rice yields 20-10...
The Spanish Dehesa is an ancient and resilient agriculture system dating back over 2,000 years. The Dehesa sweeps across 9 million acres of rolling hills in the Iberian Peninsula...
1.6 billion tons of food go to waste each year, equal to β of all the food produced globally. 30% of the waste could be saved by better refrigeration β enough to feed 950 million...
A polyculture of wheat grown with walnut trees produces ~ 40% higher yields. 1 hectare of wheat/walnut mix yields the same as 1.4 hectares of each crop grown separately. Thi...
Today, Hawaii imports 90% of its food. Before Captain Cook landed, the populous Native Hawaiians were entirely self-sufficient and produced more food using less land than modern...
It's a common belief that cattle cause ecological destruction. So common that Allan Savory, whose grazing framework has been used to regenerate 40 million acres, once held this b...
The typical coffee farm applies an excessive amount of synthetic nitrogen β between 200 -300 kgs per hectare, a rate on par with high-yielding corn, the crop with the highest nitro...