Category Archives: Vegetables

No-till transplanted onions in New England

Posted on April 12, 2015 by Natalie Lounsbury

I met Annalisa Wild Miller at the Maine Agricultural Trade show, but I was rushed with other things on my mind so I didn’t get to talk with her much. I took note that she mentioned something about an article her … Continue reading →

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The website will go on, but this project is ending…

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Natalie Lounsbury

When Ray and I were discussing what the domain name for this website should be, he came up with notillveggies.org (or .com– we got both, actually). I’m a little weird and the word “veggies” bugs me because I prefer to call them … Continue reading →

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Under Cover: Rotational No-till and Mulching Systems for Organic Vegetable Farms in Germany

Posted on February 2, 2015 by Natalie Lounsbury

It sounds like there was a great turnout for Jan’s eOrganic webinar on the cut-and-carry mulch system he and his colleagues are using for organic vegetable production in Germany. My favorite quote: “You can completely screw up the system and … Continue reading →

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Mark your calendars and get ready for an information deluge from Germany

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Natalie Lounsbury

Back in 2013, Ray and I got an inquiry from “a farmer in Germany” who was preparing a seminar on soil health and reduced tillage and wanted more information on what we were doing. He did not send a picture … Continue reading →

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Peer-reviewed: you can grow no-till spinach after winterkilled forage radish

Posted on November 25, 2014 by Natalie Lounsbury

I love a good story; in fact, we all love a good story. Scientists have shown that narratives hold a sort of “privileged status” in human cognition over logical communication, which is the form that most science writing takes. A … Continue reading →

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From small seeds to big roots: no-till organic carrots in Maine

Posted on July 28, 2014 by Natalie Lounsbury

We all have biases. In research, we randomize things and establish clear rules to avoid having our biases influence results. But I have concluded that it doesn’t violate any rules of research for me to admit one bias: I like … Continue reading →

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No-till in New England: spinach results and carrots sneak peek

Posted on June 30, 2014 by Natalie Lounsbury

We’ve entered our first heat wave in Maine, and the spinach has done what spinach does in the heat– hurry to reproduce. Before it bolted, I was able to get two successive harvests of pretty nice looking spinach (if I … Continue reading →

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