Sustainable Agriculture Student Research Projects: 2022

Mow and Cover: Cover Crop Management Using No-till Practices in a Market Garden Benjamin Alles, 2022 Key result: Covering a mowed cover crop with a tarp instead of tilling reduced time spent weeding in mulched organic cabbage plots.	Poster Paper
Effect of Mowing on Sphagnum Regeneration in a Disturbed Peat Bog Rue Badanic, 2022 Key result: Mowing cessation could promote Sphagnum moss regeneration in the degraded peat bog on Garden City Lands.	Poster Paper
Growth Substrate Effect on Lion’s Mane (Hericium erinaceus) Mushroom Yield Steph Bulman, 2022 Key result: Growth substrate did not affect yield of lion’s mane mushrooms.	Poster Paper
Do Black Plastic Mulch and Metarhizium brunneum Interact to Protect Beets from Wireworm Feeding? Rachel Cassidy, 2022 Key result: Metarhizium brunneum increased beet yield when used with black plastic mulch. No yield benefit was observed when M. brunneum or plastic mulch were used alone.
Yield Effect of Flax (Linum usitatissimum) and Chickpea (Cicer arietinum) Intercropping Moira Tarry, 2022 Key result: Dual purpose flax and chickpea had greater land output in mixed plantings than in monocultures. Flax dominated mixtures.	Poster Paper

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