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.
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Iowa farmer Loran Steinlage describes the benefits of converting a monocropped desert to a “jungle mix” of continuous living cover.
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.
How the Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship is serving as a natural next step into farming for one Farm Beginnings graduate.
How landlords and farmers can work together to build and support long-term stewardship.
A young farmer’s evolving view of livestock allows him to make a direct connection between profitability and soil health.
Birds and other biological indicators provide evidence that an Iowa farm is a “working ecosystem.”
Farm Beginnings helps the Schwagerls do the kind of enterprise analysis needed to transfer their passions into profits.
For one beginning organic dairy farmer, the path to affordable land leads through some trees, up a few hills, and over a brook.
A row-cropped field is converted back to prairie, benefiting the environment and livestock.
A farmer and a soil health expert talk about how livestock, cover crops and pastures are the “rock stars” of building soil health.