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After two years without a permanent director, when the Leopold Center staff sometimes felt betwixt and between several temporal planes, the second official search process yielded a new leader in Mark Rasmussen. Such times bring to mind words from Aldo Leopold’s essay, “Wisconsin...
Applying carbon-rich biochar to farmland improves soil health, but questions still remain about how biochar will influence yields and interact with mycorrhizae, important soil fungi. Erich Sneller, ISU Environmental Sciences student, describes an experiment at TableTop Farm that applies biochar, with or without mycorrhizae, to organic tomatoes. This experiment is part of a larger effort to study biochar in natural ecosystems. Filmed September 2012.
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