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LandWISE – Promoting sustainable land management

Month: December 2023

December in the MicroFarm Tomatoes

Posted on December 21, 2023

Our tomatoes have now been planted for eight weeks and we have seen a lot of growth since the November newsletter. Since our last update, the Watties operations team have mechanically weeded the interrow and Andy Lysaght has mechanically weeded in between the tomatoes. We have applied several sprays, side dressed, and irrigated. It is…

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Biocontrol at the MicroFarm

Posted on December 21, 2023

Our Carbon Positive project is comparing conventional intensive process crop production with production applying regenerative farming principles. One of the aspects we are focusing on is the “softening” of the pest and disease control programme. In the regenerative treatment, we are particularly looking at a range of biocontrol agents. In effect, these are also playing…

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