· Intercropping with herbaceous soil-building legumes such as stylosanthes or macroptilium; or.    From Wordnik.com.  [5. Pearl Millet: Subsistence Types] Reference

Obstacles like this must be kept in mind when considering using green manuring as a soil-building technique.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference

The other is a science fiction novel called Gems of Kolbe featuring soil-building pioneers on the terraformed world of Kolbe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference

It believes that this trend may be reversed if the people of the Earth can be educated to the point where they will demand planning of population, reforestation, soil-building, deurbanization, and an end to the wasteful production of gadgets and proprietary foods for which there is no natural demand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Space Merchants]

As a matter of fact, as erosion of the soil progresses, as good, productive land becomes more scarce, and as farm labor becomes more and more difficult to employ, the attention of informed farm owners and operators has been turning more and more to soil-building, perennial, permanent and labor-saving crops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference

My lazy gardener secret is to use soil-building compost as the mulch in my planting beds, then wait a couple years.    From Wordnik.com.  [MailTribune.com Latest Headlines] Reference

Carey Craddock will discuss soil-building techniques, winter garden maintenance and how to plan a year-round garden.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference

The farmers are mostly in the soil-building phase this season, the process of transforming the site into a farm filled with food crops will take some time.    From Wordnik.com.  [TreeHugger] Reference

Organic gardening instructor Carey Craddock will discuss soil-building techniques, winter garden maintenance and how to plan ahead for your year-round garden.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference

Learn the principles of double-digging, composting and soil-building, intensive planting, companion planting, carbon-farming (compost crops), calorie-farming, and open-pollinated seeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indybay newswire] Reference

Another view promotes harnessing the productive capacity of the world's small-scale farmers, while focusing on more soil-building and less energy-intensive and water-intensive production practices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peak Oil News] Reference

Hepperly, who is helping other nations implement organic farming systems, explains that using soil-building crops and compost to support cash crops helps to build soil carbon levels while keeping productivity in line with conventional systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [HappyNews - Top Stories] Reference

I would like to see research on how to design the most energy-efficient and soil-building cropping systems in the Midwest involving (1) a traditional corn-soybean rotation, (2) C-S-small grains rotations, (3) C-S-Small grains-Alfalfa-Alfalfa rotations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

Jefferson believed in adding soil-building components such as compost, manure and decomposing leaves to his soil because he noticed that the plants flourished in that environment, suffered from fewer pests and diseases, and were more drought-resistant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

"broad-leaved 'grain' with remarkable soil-building abilities are edible.    From Wordnik.com.  [3: Staple crops] Reference