Advancing Reduced Tillage for Organic Vegetable Production: Lessons Learned from a Living Lab
Read about Ken Laing’s Living Lab-Ontario project that innovated ways to reduce tillage for organic vegetable production.
No-till fall broccoli in northern Ontario
Read and watch Ryan Spence and Isabelle Spence-Legault’s farmer-led research trial where they tested whether a crimped cover crop of rye and hairy vetch reduced tillage, cultivation and irrigation for their fall broccoli crop in northern Ontario.
No-Till Vegetable Trials: Let’s Talk No-Till Planting
As part of EFAO’s No-Till Vegetable Trials, Ken Laing is doing a lot of no-till transplanting! Here are some of his reflections on the challenges of no-till planting seed and transplant. There are many challenges awaiting those who want to switch in whole or in...EFAO’s Organic No-Till Vegetable Trials
Ken Laing of Orchard Hill Farm is working in cooperation with EFAO to trial a wide variety of no-till methods for organic vegetable production. We will be documenting the work in a series of blogs.