Soil health is an extremely important component of a functioning, environmentally-sustainable farm ecosystem. Farmers can receive government support to assist with financing their sustainable practices on a state level through the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. The Missouri Department of Natural Resources incentivizes and supports these sustainable practices which conserve land and water quality through the Soil and…
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Read MoreOrdinance 70608 – Chickens in St. Louis
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Read MoreSTLFPC Member Spotlight on Dan Mueller from HOSCO
What does HOSCO stand for? HOSCO stands for Holistic, Organic, Sustainble, Co-operative. How did you get started in the food system? How did you get involved with HOSCO? I come from a farming family and so I’ve always had a passion for agriculture and for being outdoors. When I got into college, that changed more…
Read MoreSTLFPC Member Spotlight on Mary Ostafi from Urban Harvest STL
How did you get started in the food system? I got started as an eater, just like everyone else; as a conscious, healthy eater that was concerned about the industrial ag system in our country. To make a long story short, I fell into this…
Read MoreSoil and Agriculture
Soil is a diverse ecosystem of living and nonliving elements working together to create the surface of our Earth. Soil provides many services such as habitat to many creatures, the ability to facilitate plant growth, and provides a stable surface for all infrastructure. Without soil life on Earth would be very different, but today soil…
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