Three Steps to Sustainability
Sustainable programs often have a favorable cost-benefit ratio. There are many cases where a sustainable fertilizer program has greatly reduced the amount of chemical fertilizers and pesticides while producing better quality and higher yields. It is possible to grow first-rate crops and still protect the environment; one way to achieve this is to begin blending a program of synthetic chemistry and organics into a sustainable agroecological program through the use of BioFlora organic and organic-based products.
A sustainable system produces abundant food in an economical way while preserving the soil’s ecology, and building soil fertility for future generations without polluting the environment and depleting the earth’s natural resources.
Sustainable farming is not necessarily organic farming, although organic practices are a form of sustainable, agroecological farming. The Bioflora Sustainability System is aimed at understanding how slight modifications to conventional farming practices can bring about a more sustainable agricultural system.
These moderated programs include practices that strive to reduce conventional agriculture’s excessive applications of chemicals that often leach and pollute streams, lakes and ground water systems. Synthetic chemicals tend to build up salts and other toxic materials in our agricultural soils.
BioFlora has a three-step approach for developing soil fertility that is similar to that found in virgin soils. Look at the balance of soil minerals, the quality of the soil humus or organic matter and the diversity of the soil’s microbial life.
First, determine if the soil nutrient base saturation levels are in the proper balance. Next, look at soil carbon. Specifically, the percent organic matter, since this is the soil component that holds moisture, increases the soil CEC rating, and provides food for soil biological life. The third component is the diversity and quantity of soil microorganisms, which are essential to plant nutrient uptake, nutrient storage, pathogen inhibition, buffering of salts and toxins, and are the main indicators of soil tilth.
A sustainable system produces abundant food in an economical way while preserving the soil’s ecology, and building soil fertility for future generations without polluting the environment and depleting the earth’s natural resources.
Sustainable farming is not necessarily organic farming, although organic practices are a form of sustainable, agroecological farming. The Bioflora Sustainability System is aimed at understanding how slight modifications to conventional farming practices can bring about a more sustainable agricultural system.
These moderated programs include practices that strive to reduce conventional agriculture’s excessive applications of chemicals that often leach and pollute streams, lakes and ground water systems. Synthetic chemicals tend to build up salts and other toxic materials in our agricultural soils.
BioFlora has a three-step approach for developing soil fertility that is similar to that found in virgin soils. Look at the balance of soil minerals, the quality of the soil humus or organic matter and the diversity of the soil’s microbial life.
First, determine if the soil nutrient base saturation levels are in the proper balance. Next, look at soil carbon. Specifically, the percent organic matter, since this is the soil component that holds moisture, increases the soil CEC rating, and provides food for soil biological life. The third component is the diversity and quantity of soil microorganisms, which are essential to plant nutrient uptake, nutrient storage, pathogen inhibition, buffering of salts and toxins, and are the main indicators of soil tilth.
