ATTRA

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Goats are browsers—they’ll eat grass and weeds like cattle and sheep if they have to, but their preference is to eat brush. Instead of throwing garden refuse away or composting it, one could instead chop it up and drop it as mulch back into the garden. One question that came up was about feeding them.

Rural Development 85

Rural Development Manure Compost Pasture 85

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Joia Food & Fiber Farm farmstead pictured with sheep, sheepdogs, and cattle grazing. In addition to organic practices including composting and perennial cover crops, he added a silvopasture for his grass-fed cattle. They were a rough crew of sheep!” Johnson laughs. They ate grains that couldn’t be sold.”

Acre 125

Acre Pasture Farming Farming 125

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Not only does his cattle system capture carbon, but he also improves water infiltration and water holding capacity in his soils. Rotationally grazed cattle behind an electric fence. She also employs cover crops, composting, and reduced tillage. Joseph Fischer, of Fischer Farms in St.

Pasture 116

Pasture Crop Orchard Farming 116

Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

We raised a small herd of cattle on the farm, as well as the hay to feed them through the winter. Since we had land—and we also had a good relationship with the local Farmer’s Cooperative, which generously donated seeds, plants, and fertilizer—a garden felt like a good way to support the community. We always had a big garden.

Ruralism 117

Ruralism Farming Farming Agriculture 117

Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

Within decades, a network of dams, levees and canals had dried up the basin, transforming the fertile crater into an agricultural hub. But thirsty crops and cattle have taken their toll: Amid California’s cycles of drought, excessive groundwater pumping has left Central Valley basins the most overdrafted in the state.

Farming 97

Farming Farming Manure Agriculture 97

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

He sought counsel from private and public agriculture experts and went the opposite direction from their advice—spread chemical fertilizer, plant corn, graze the forest, build silos, borrow more money. We fed our garden compost and didn’t spray chemicals on it. Why would a farmer want to sell to people?”

Cultivation 52

Cultivation Farming Farming Compost 52

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

invest in deeper root development and have greater mycorrhizal associations, which afford them vastly greater capacity to scavenge nutrients in low fertility soils,” Reeske wrote in the grant proposal. Ernie Klemm, forage manager at Konyn Dairy in San Pasqual Valley, has been dry-farming grains for 50 years—as food for cattle.

Grain 138

Grain Seeding Farming Farming 138

Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

Alexander starts with the pea which developed widely across the globe beginning in the Fertile Crescent, where it dates back 8500 years to Neolithic settlements. It’s a reminder of how vital it is to know and understand the evolution of our vegetables and what’s at stake as myriad local varietals disappear.

Food 98

Food Seeding Farming Farming 98

The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

All around Cobb, land-owning neighbors are beginning to lease out their fertile farmland—not to farmers, but to solar companies, taking that land out of production at a time when more, not less, farmland is needed to grow our food. More basic agrivoltaics are being used across the U.S. More basic agrivoltaics are being used across the U.S.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Farmland Acre 52

Modern Farmer

MAY 23, 2024

Packaged poop can take hundreds of years to break down, even in bags deemed compostable or biodegradable; certifications that are based on commercial composting conditions, not landfills—but US industrial composting facilities don’t accept pet waste. In the US, dog parks are catching on.

Compost 130

Compost Manure Processing Fertilizer 130

RR2CS

MARCH 11, 2024

They now grow over 10 types of grass and clover, use less fertilizer, and produce some of the healthiest, most nutritious beef you can find. 30:53 – Why raise piedmontese cattle? They now grow over 10 types of grass and clover, use less fertilizer, and produce some of the healthiest, most nutritious beef you can find.

Food 52

Food Fertilizer Forage Ruralism 52

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Then one day in 1995, while packing his cattle into a double-decker semi-truck bound for a slaughterhouse several states away, he recalls that something suddenly felt wrong. Hartman maximizes many practices from the past while implementing today’s tech “on a human scale” to reap the greatest reward.

Food 145

Food Farming Farming Seeding 145

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Blessings, joel HILLSDALE COLLEGE PARALLEL ECONOMIES—AGRICULTURE Joel Salatin This spring when Russia invaded Ukraine, fertilizer prices increased in some cases 400 percent and global grain shipments sputtered, our farm didn’t feel anything because we don’t buy fertilizer and we don’t buy foreign grain.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Manure 52

Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

Livestock including cattle, sheep, goats and poultry, were also raised. It’s not just settlers taking land in the West Bank; in March the Israeli government annexed nearly 2,000 acres of the fertile Jordan Valley. Don’t leave us alone, we’re not okay.”

Farming 127

Farming Farming Livestock Food 127

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Keystone Land and Livestock, which manages grass-fed certified organic cattle across over 4,500 acres in California’s Sutter Buttes Mountains, received a grant through Wolfes Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment. To reach small vegetable, livestock, and larger row-crop farms across the state, they hired five people.

Farming 145

Farming Farming Agriculture Agriculture 145