Ear to the Ground 206: Going Cold into Cover Cropping
A southeastern Minnesota farmer’s drive to plant cover crops takes him out onto the snow and into new soil health territory.
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Ear to the Ground 205: Relaying Soil Resiliency
Iowa farmer Loran Steinlage describes the benefits of converting a monocropped desert to a “jungle mix” of continuous living cover.
Ear to the Ground 204: Policy Change from the Ground Up
Mark Schultz talks about how LSP’s members hatched one of the most innovative farm conservation programs around…and why we need to fight for it.
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 202: Regenerative Renting
How landlords and farmers can work together to build and support long-term stewardship.
Ear to the Ground 201: Regenerating vs. Sustaining
A young farmer’s evolving view of livestock allows him to make a direct connection between profitability and soil health.
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 198: Odd Acres of Opportunity
For one beginning organic dairy farmer, the path to affordable land leads through some trees, up a few hills, and over a brook.
Ear to the Ground 197: Prairie After the Plow
A row-cropped field is converted back to prairie, benefiting the environment and livestock.