Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 6, 2023

We had grand plans to install a curated pollinator garden in the front and a vegetable garden with a managed meadow in the back. A meadow of native plants can promote healthy soil and draw in pollinators. The outcome was a meadow of purple petals of self-heal, buttery flecks of common yellow wood sorrel and ivory dapples of chickweed.

Meadow 117

Meadow Greenhouse Compost Soil Compaction 117

The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

They don’t watch TV all evening; they can tomatoes and chase fireflies in the meadow. As a fulltime commercial farmer that doesn’t use chemicals, who fertilizes with home-made compost, and believes pigs should express their pigness, I get no embrace from the conventional commercial farming community.

Ruralism 100

Ruralism Livestock Supply Chain Meadow 100

ATTRA

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Here, the clover struggles for light beneath the overstretched vines, and crabgrass and small amaranth seedlings dream of sunlit meadows or the turnrows of a cornfield. She tells me she hasn’t turned a profit since the first rows were laid out and the virgin meadow soil was tilled. What do the tomatoes say in return? What’s missing?

Farming 40

Farming Farming Meadow Compost 40