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Photo credit: Eric von Wettberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Students in PSS 2120, Weed Ecology and Management, went down to the Intervale on September 6, 2023, to assist with weed control in plots replanted following catastrophic flooding in July.<\/p>\n

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Photo credit: Eric von Wettberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After learning about the array of organic weed management approaches used by the Intervale Community Farm, students participated in manual weed control in cabbage and broccoli plots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Students in PSS 2120, Weed Ecology and Management, went down to the Intervale on September 6, 2023, to assist with weed control in plots replanted following catastrophic flooding in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7974,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28],"tags":[21,83],"class_list":["post-3403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cals","category-faculty","tag-pss","tag-students"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":585,"url":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/wettberg-regenerative-agriculture\/","url_meta":{"origin":3403,"position":0},"title":"Institute Funding Trains Students in Regenerative Agriculture","author":"CALS Communications","date":"November 15, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"During August, 2021, Eric Bishop von Wettberg was awarded a subcontract for the New Roots for Restoration Biology Integration Institute (NRR-BII). 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