Ear to the Ground 172: Beyond the Backyard
With the help of LSP’s Farm Beginnings and Journeyperson, Sara Morrison takes her garden beyond the backyard.
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Ear to the Ground 171: Pasque Providers
Using conservation grazing to revitalize a prairie.
Ear to the Ground 170: Constructive Criticism
How a Farm Beginnings field day makes everyone a “consultant.”
Ear to the Ground 169: Acre of Opportunity
A livestock/crop farmer lends out an “odd corner” on his property as a launching pad for a beginning vegetable operation.
Ear to the Ground 168: Blitzing the Biome
Rural residents and naturalists “BioBlitz” grassland and learn about its relationship to clean water and vibrant communities.
Ear to the Ground 167: Small Goals, Big Plans
Farm Beginnings grads achieve a series of “micro-goals” in service of the bigger picture: a successful livestock enterprise.
Ear to the Ground 166: From the Lab to the Land
A farmer works with a professor and her students at a local college to study the impacts of cropping on soil health.
Ear to the Ground 165: A Night of Wendell Berry
LSP farmer-members honor Wendell Berry with an evening of readings.
Ear to the Ground 164: No GMO
Farmers, seed dealers and meat firms come together at an LSP meeting to talk about the non-GMO crop market.
Ear to the Ground 163: Trial by Fire
Rising from the ashes: Farm Beginnings grads recover from a disaster and launch a dairy farm.