Adequate levels of functional organic matter and a robust soil digestive system are sorely lacking in most all agricultural soils. This lack of humic substances and biology significantly reduces a soil’s water holding capacity and the ability to release nutrients, all of which leads to large losses in crop quality and yiel...

Crisp fall weather is here, all of us are busy wrapping up a challenging growing season. The weather extremes in June and July were very stressful on both crops and farmers. On AEA Pure Dawn Farm in Orwell Ohio, we experienced standing water in our fields for close to four weeks, which lead to crops with almost nonexistent...

Agrohacking requires a broad range of working knowledge in many different areas, the ability to evaluate an idea in the context of the greater whole, and envision how it might impact the greater whole. This is the pathway of a generalist.

A significant challenge in our current educational model is that we teach people to b...

Agrohacking is the art of understanding the sophisticated beauty of complicated, interconnected  agriculture systems, and figuring out how to greatly enhance the systems performance with strategic 'hacks'. Agrohacking is the science of determining where the missing pieces are, what parts of our collective knowledge have we...