Optimizing Nutrient Cycling for Nutrient Dense Crops
Nutrient cycling is the transfer of nutrients from the atmosphere, from additives, or from the soil into plants and back again. This cycle–and nutrient availability–has a big impact on nutrient densities in crops at harvest.
Listen in as Joy Youwakim, a soil scientist currently working as a farmer and an agroecology scientist at Biome Makers, sheds light on the pivotal role of soil testing, microbes, and management practices in nutrient cycling and, ultimately, the production of more nutritious crops.
Dig deeper with these resources about nutrient cycling and nutrient dense crops:
- “Soil Microbiomes for Healthy Nutrient Recycling” by Prasad et al, 2020.
- “Soil health and nutrient density: preliminary comparison of regenerative and conventional farming” by Montgomery et al, 2022.
- “Enhancing public health through modern agronomy” by Amanullah and Khan, 2024.
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