{"id":9127,"date":"2019-08-12T16:43:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T16:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hvfarmhub.org\/?p=9127"},"modified":"2021-08-13T13:35:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T13:35:11","slug":"squash-joins-native-meadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hvfarmhub.org\/es\/squash-joins-native-meadows\/","title":{"rendered":"Squash Joins Native Meadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; float: left; font-size: 70px; line-height: 55px; padding-right: 3px;\">N<\/span>ow into its third year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/hvfarmhub.org\/es\/natural-benefits-native-meadows-farm-hub\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prueba de pradera nativa<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was established with three distinct forms of management\u2014one involved planting several native flower species and a single native grass, another included planting fewer native flower species and more grasses, and a third serves as the control and is essentially a fallow field. New this year is the introduction of crops into the picture.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hvfarmhub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DSC_0170.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/hvfarmhub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DSC_0170-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hvfarmhub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DSC_0170-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hvfarmhub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DSC_0170.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Lead researcher Conrad Vispo stands before a mix of butternut squash and flowers.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hvfarmhub.org\/es\/farmscape-ecology\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Applied Farmscape Ecology Team,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> coordinated by Anne Bloomfield of the Hudson Valley Farm Hub together with members of the Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program,&nbsp; collaborated with the vegetable production team to add butternut squash into the meadows. Against a backdrop packed with flowers including Wild Bergamot, Purple Coneflowers and Brown-eyed Susans is a flourishing blanket of squash. As of early August, the squash was beginning to flower and set fruit.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOne of the goals with those experimental wild flower plots is to see if we can\u2019t increase beneficial insects by creating such habitat. While we are measuring insect populations in the native meadow test plots (and initial results suggests that certain beneficial insects do increase), the more practical question is \u2013 would such habitat make any difference to adjacent crops?\u201d asks lead researcher Conrad Vispo. \u201cDoes squash next to a fallow field do better\/worse than squash next to one of our flowering beds?\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hvfarmhub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DSC_0184.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/hvfarmhub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DSC_0184-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hvfarmhub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DSC_0184-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hvfarmhub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DSC_0184.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Left, Dylan Cipkowski, biologist with the Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program, and Conrad Vispo, conduct an insect count in front of Native Meadows.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeff Arnold, vegetable production manager, says squash was picked because \u201cit\u2019s highly susceptible to insect pest pressure and it is something that flowers and requires pollination, and its relatively low maintenance. You plant and water it and it is good to go.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since planting the squash in June, the team has begun monitoring the squash plants for damage and production and counting the insects. A count involves \u201csweeping\u201d the squash section, and collecting and categorizing the insects. Some preliminary results numbers from this aspect of the trial will be released in the autumn and winter.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hvfarmhub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DSC_0196.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/hvfarmhub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DSC_0196-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hvfarmhub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DSC_0196-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hvfarmhub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/DSC_0196.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also new to the Native Meadow Trial this year is Gabriel Perron of Bard College who, together with his students, is soil sampling in the Native Meadow plots and conducting microbial analysis. Their focus is on understanding the unseen soil life and how that relates to soil management and production.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year\u2019s Native Meadow Trial meeting is on Sept. 17. For more information <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hvfarmhub.org\/es\/events\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">haga clic aqu\u00ed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-Amy Wu&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strips of butternut squash grow before a backdrop of flowers. With the Native Meadow Trial in its third year, this is the first time that crops have been planted next to the meadows. 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