“People come from quite a ways,” says Joe. “There aren’t really any other organic orchards in the metro Milwaukee-Chicago area.” With the help of an army of local moms working during ...

Phosphate solubilizing soil bacteria inoculated onto seedlings at planting may play a vital role in improving the growth of replanted trees in organic orchards. The project’s field trials are now ...

She also conducts small-scale greenhouse trials and this spring, hopes to apply 4 or 5 of the best performing biological treatments to newly replanted apple seedlings in commercial, organic orchards ...