Ear to the Ground 207: Feed the Cow-Feed the Soil
How a visiting student’s critique set a farm on a path toward profitably integrating crops, pasture and livestock.
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2018 CSA Farm Directory Now Available
Over 60 Twin Cities-Minnesota Region Farms Offering Shares in 2018 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—It’s been a long winter, but another Community Supported Agriculture season is just around the corner, giving eaters a chance to forge partnerships with some of the most innovative farmers in the region while enjoying fresh, sustainably-produced food. The 2018 Edition of the Twin… Read More →
Ear to the Ground 203: The Grass Apprentice
How the Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship is serving as a natural next step into farming for one Farm Beginnings graduate.
Ear to the Ground 200: Bovines, Biodiversity & Bobolinks
Birds and other biological indicators provide evidence that an Iowa farm is a “working ecosystem.”
Ear to the Ground 199: Channeling Your Enthusiasm
Farm Beginnings helps the Schwagerls do the kind of enterprise analysis needed to transfer their passions into profits.
Ear to the Ground 195: Grappling with a Monster
Farmer Tom Frantzen describes how he is using diversity to make his farm more resilient in the face of extreme weather.
‘What is your Soil Saying?’ Field Day July 18 in De Graff
De GRAFF, Minn. — What is your soil telling you? Answers to that question are the focus of a special on-farm workshop Tuesday, July 18, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., on the Gerald Swenson Farm near De Graff (1140 60th Ave SE). This event, which is sponsored by the Swift County Soil and Water… Read More →
The Beauty Beneath Our Feet
For an artist, it’s always nice to get a little public recognition—it helps make up for all those hours spent alone in the studio. So when Deborah Foutch’s piece, “Soil Horizon,” won a blue ribbon at the Minnesota State Fair in 2015, she was thrilled. But even more exciting was that the artwork—it uses various… Read More →
Helping a Pasture Reach its True Potential
“What? Did you sell your cows?!?” This was the response from my neighbor, who had stopped by several years ago after seeing my pasture covered with 2.5-foot-tall grass. “I have never seen this pasture with grass longer than a golf green in nearly 30 years; you must have sold the cows!” This is a good… Read More →
Ear to the Ground 183: Rains Don’t Lie
Seeing is believing: a rain simulator shows the value of continuous living cover on farm fields.