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Book excerpt: Humusphere by Herwig Pommeresche
Herwig Pommeresche, a German-Norwegian explorer of soil life, graduate permaculture designer and graduate engineer, shares his lifetime of research into humus. Humusphere, translated into English for...
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Reducing Food Waste: Compost Production Recovers Nutrients for Soil Benefits
When you consider our nation’s health, the quality of our food, its decreasing nutritional value and the increased degradation of our farmland, it’s not a pretty picture — and the challenges related to...
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Pastured Pigs — A Primer
Raising livestock on pasture isn’t new, but with the advent of confinement livestock operations and the industrialization of meat production, chickens, cows and pigs were moved inside and shut off...
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Plant Stress & Proline
In his 1995 State of the Union speech, President Bill Clinton highlighted a USDA program addressing plant stress as an example of wasteful “pet project” government spending. We knew then, and know even...
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Book excerpt: Bread From Stones by Julius Hensel
Translated from the German writings of Julius Hensel, the book was designed to introduce the people of the U.S. to the idea that plants require healthy food in order to flourish, just as a human being...
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Preserving a Way of Life with the Cooperative Model
Most of us Amish baby boomers grew up on family farms. We were farmers. We were born on the farm, or somewhere close by. The farm provided food and shelter. It was where we gathered for worship. We got...
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Rethinking ‘Pandora’s Potatoes’
Former Genetic Engineer for J.R. Simplot & Monsanto, Dr. Caius Rommens Questions Biotechnology Safety, Authors Book on His Work with Potatoes For 26 years, Dr. Caius Rommens was an ambitious and...
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Principles of Permanent Agriculture
When we look at the great soils of the world, we can see these principles of permanent agriculture in action. The prairies have the grasses and clovers that together structure the soil and incorporate...
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Community Land Trusts: Gateway to Farmland
The Oakland Institute, a policy think tank in Oakland, California, reports that huge pension funds, university endowments, banks, sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds and new exchange-traded companies...
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The Future of Food: A Nation of Tenant Farmers?
America’s farmland is up for grabs. With two-thirds of the nation’s farmers retiring in the next 20 years, 400 million acres will change hands. Who will control what happens to that land? Land is in...
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Book excerpt: Eco-Farm by Charles Walters – The Soil-Life Connection
Acres U.S.A. founder Charles Walters wrote Eco-Farm: An Acres U.S.A. Primer to be the definitive guide to eco-farming. That includes managing farm and ranch soil fertility, crops, fertilizers, weeds,...
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5 Strategies for a Successful Tool Lending Library
A growing number of communities operate their own tool lending library to allow residents to borrow tools free of charge because building a fence requires a lot of tools, and purchasing a brand-new...
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Book excerpt: The Myths of Safe Pesticides by André Leu
In his book The Myths of Safe Pesticides, organic agriculturist and lecturer André Leu delves into scientific research to present evidence dispelling the claims of chemical companies and pesticide...
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Onions for the Garden & Good Health
Of all the vegetables, herbs and spices that are used to season food and heal the body, the unassuming onion is rarely given its proper due. For a plant that serves so many needs and desires in our...
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Book excerpt: Food, Farming & Health by Vandana Shiva, et al.
The book Food, Farming & Health shows how our health is a continuum from the soil, to the plants, to our bodies. It demonstrates how chemical farming depletes the soils of nutrition, producing...
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Restoring the Seed Commons: Call for Clarity on Intellectual Property Rights
The seed industry has been changing rapidly. After recent mergers (Bayer/Monsanto, ChemChina/Syngenta, Dow/DuPont), just three companies dominate the global seed trade. Increasingly, giant...
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“Small Farm Today” Founder Passes
Ron Macher, founder and editor of Small Farm Today, died in December after a lengthy illness. Ron was a tireless champion of the diversified small family farm. He held the belief that saving the family...
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Setting the Table to Optimize Fertilizers, Soil Amendments
By using detailed measurements and specifically formulated procedures for controlling nutrient excesses and deficiencies in soils, it is possible to define, measure and manage soil fertility to help...
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Tractor Time Episode 24: Jeff Moyer, Rodale Institute, 2018 Eco-Ag Award Winner
On today’s program, we’re going to honor our 2018 Eco-Ag Award winner, who we celebrated in December at our 43rd annual conference. Jeff Moyer, is a longtime organic farmer, author, lecturer. Source
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2019 Farming Evolution Event to Feature Christine Jones
The 2019 Farming Evolution event will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, February 20 & 21, 2019. The Phillips County Event Center on the Fairgrounds just north of Holyoke, CO, will house the event....
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