# soil health (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover soil health. Page: Feed: --- ## [Revolution Not Evolution](https://thecommontable.eu/revolution-not-evolution/) _2026-08-19 · Sophie & Orlando · The Common Table_ German supermarket giant Rewe's all-new timber construction supermarkets come complete with rooftop farms. Klaus Wiens, their head of construction, explains why reconfiguring the future of supermarkets, is the only way forward. ## [We’ve Moved our Web Presence!](https://uconnladybug.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/weve-moved-our-web-presence/) _2026-08-11 · UConnhgec Ladybug · Uconnladybug's Blog_ After many years of blogs here on the UConnladybug blog, we are moving all of our publications to one website. We are grateful to our followers that have been weekly readers for so long! We will continue creating valuable gardening content on our website: https://homegarden.cahnr.uconn.edu/ and hope you will join us there! Other Ways to Follow Us: ## [What Are We Going to Eat?](https://thecommontable.eu/what-are-we-going-to-eat/) _2026-08-03 · Sophie & Orlando · The Common Table_ The Common Table's founders Orlando & Sophie Lovell renew their pledge to champion voices for change in humankind’s greatest task ahead: transitioning to an ecosystem of economies that are decent, fair and safe – through food. ## [Feeding Cabbage Wisely: Lessons from a UConn Phosphorus Study](https://uconnladybug.wordpress.com/2026/07/02/feeding-cabbage-wisely-lessons-from-a-uconn-phosphorus-study/) _2026-07-02 · UConnhgec Ladybug · Uconnladybug's Blog_ Cabbage is a familiar crop in New England gardens and vegetable farms, but producing a firm, heavy head takes more than good weather and regular watering. Like many brassica crops, cabbage has a strong nutrient demand during early growth. One nutrient that deserves special attention is phosphorus (P). P helps plants transfer energy, develop roots, \[…\] ## [Pollinator plants for blooms all season](https://uconnladybug.wordpress.com/2026/06/22/pollinator-plants-for-blooms-all-season/) _2026-06-22 · Dr Lauren Kurtz · Uconnladybug's Blog_ In nature, there are plants blooming all season to provide plenty of food for diverse pollinator species. On the other hand, in many yards and gardens there are times of the year when few, if any, plants are blooming. In the home landscape there tends to be many spring blooming plants but not as many \[…\] ## [Plant Galls – Natural Oddities Worth Looking For](https://uconnladybug.wordpress.com/2026/06/16/plant-galls-natural-oddities-worth-looking-for/) _2026-06-16 · UConnhgec Ladybug · Uconnladybug's Blog_ Plant galls are oddities of the plant world created by insects, mites or pathogens whose activity or natural chemicals manipulate plant hormones which then cause abnormal tissue growth. Fungal galls can indicate a serious problem that may eventually severely damage or kill the plant, but galls caused by arthropods very often cause no serious damage \[…\] ## [Two of a Kind – Volutella Blight vs Boxwood Blight](https://uconnladybug.wordpress.com/2026/06/05/two-of-a-kind-volutella-blight-vs-boxwood-blight/) _2026-06-05 · UConnhgec Ladybug · Uconnladybug's Blog_ Boxwoods are frequent patients at the Plant Diagnostic Lab. Although they are very pleasing to the eye when perfectly manicured and sculpted, it is a rare sight to see a boxwood left unscathed by disease. Boxwoods are not the most resilient plants, susceptible to a host of pests and pathogens. Two of the most common \[…\] ## [Toto, We Aren’t in Kansas Anymore](https://uconnladybug.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/toto-we-arent-in-kansas-anymore/) _2026-05-29 · UConnhgec Ladybug · Uconnladybug's Blog_ I was at a party over the weekend at a friend’s house. I had no idea she really liked plants, and she said the same thing to me. It seems strange, but I guess plants never really came up. As she was showing me around, she said something that I hear all the time from \[…\] ## [How to Feed the World Responsibly](https://thecommontable.eu/how-to-feed-the-world-responsibly/) _2026-05-18 · Sophie & Orlando · The Common Table_ Tara Shyam is Executive Director of Regen10, a global initiative to support the transition to an inclusive, regenerative, and equitable agrifood systems, and it just published a roadmap. A conversation about sharing responsibility as well as direction. ## [Plants Need Some Companionship Too!](https://uconnladybug.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/plants-need-some-companionship-too/) _2026-05-14 · UConnhgec Ladybug · Uconnladybug's Blog_ As you get ready or maybe even begun to plant your vegetable garden, don’t think you have to limit yourself just to edibles. Feel free to mix it up a bit either by interplanting early and late maturing vegetables or by adding some flowers and herbs. There are lots of articles and books on companion \[…\] ## [AI publishing with human taste (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/FW7Onvu28TEp) _2026-05-14 · **Sponsored**_ Convert AI research into blogs, podcasts, and newsletters with optional human review. ## [Farmacy’s Manifesto](https://thecommontable.eu/farmacys-manifesto/) _2026-05-12 · Sophie & Orlando · The Common Table_ A self-published handbook from a Notting Hill vegan restaurant might seem an unlikely vehicle for a radical food systems manifesto, but Farmacy's Manifesto on the Future of Food makes a compelling, if imperfect, case for regenerative agriculture and the urgent need to rethink how “we” feed ourselves. ## [DIY Wearable Flowers](https://uconnladybug.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/diy-wearable-flowers/) _2026-05-08 · Heather Zidack · Uconnladybug's Blog_ Wearable flowers have found their purposes throughout history. They were originally worn by ancient Greeks as a way to ward off evil. In later periods, flowers were used to express identity, affiliation, or support for causes and individuals. In modern times, corsages and boutonnieres are seen more commonly for formal events like weddings and proms. \[…\] ## [Remove the Arbiters of Taste](https://thecommontable.eu/remove-the-arbiters-of-taste/) _2026-05-01 · Sophie & Orlando · The Common Table_ Michelin-starred chef Ivan Brehm worked at Per Se, Mugaritz, and The Fat Duck, before opening his own restaurant, Nouri, in Singapore in 2017. He shares his thoughts about artifice, agency, and the unsustainable game fine dining has become. ## [Early Spring Birds and Butterflies](https://uconnladybug.wordpress.com/2026/04/28/early-spring-birds-and-butterflies/) _2026-04-28 · UConnhgec Ladybug · Uconnladybug's Blog_ Spring is here, and although it has been remarkably cold and cloudy, the birds and butterflies that normally are seen in late April are just beginning to be around. Even the early bird arrivals like phoebes were noticeably late. Typically, here by late March, they came back in April in my area of the state. \[…\] ## [Why Raised Beds Shrink and How to Replenish Them Wisely](https://uconnladybug.wordpress.com/2026/04/23/why-raised-beds-shrink-and-how-to-replenish-them-wisely/) _2026-04-23 · UConnhgec Ladybug · Uconnladybug's Blog_ The first year a raised bed is filled, it often looks just right. The soil is dark, loose, and level with the top boards. Plants settle in quickly, and the whole bed feels full of promise. By the second year, many gardeners notice that the soil line has dropped. What once reached the top edge \[…\] ## [Food is Political](https://thecommontable.eu/sheila-dillon-food-is-political/) _2026-04-14 · Sophie & Orlando · The Common Table_ BBC Food Programme presenter Sheila Dillon has spent four decades establishing food as an important, newsworthy subject and breaking big political stories through the lens of food. ## [Can You Feel The Force?](https://thecommontable.eu/can-you-feel-the-force/) _2026-04-07 · Sophie & Orlando · The Common Table_ From me to we: a biocosmic metaphor in a speculative meditation on humans and holobionts, microbes and midichlorians, Star Wars and storytelling by Sophie Lovell. May the Force be with us. ## [Sowing Seeds of Hope in Ukraine](https://thecommontable.eu/sowing-seeds-of-hope-in-ukraine/) _2026-03-28 · Sophie & Orlando · The Common Table_ We asked Yuliya Stefanyuk, the World Central Kitchen's Response Director in Ukraine, about WCK's new project distributing of seeds to help those affected by the war grow their own food and rebuild resilience. ## [Being Human in the ‘House that Pigs built’](https://thecommontable.eu/being-human-in-the-house-that-pigs-built/) _2026-03-20 · Sophie & Orlando · The Common Table_ Cooking Sections' new exhibition about intensive pig farming at Denmark's MAPS Museum doesn't just reveal what industrial farming does to a landscape and its people, it also invites them to fight back. ## [Chovy's Blog: Agentic Coding (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/bi9BouDreC2L) _2026-03-20 · **Sponsored**_ Personal posts on agentic coding, moshcode CLI, and security findings. ## [SOS: Who’s Saving Our Soils?](https://thecommontable.eu/sos-whos-saving-our-soils/) _2026-03-16 · Sophie & Orlando · The Common Table_ The EU Soil Strategy for 2030 was launched in November 2021 as part of the European Green Deal. Its first law, the Soil Monitoring Law, went into force in December 2025. But is it enough to save our soils and ourselves?