The Lunatic Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2022

Many people either buy or locate onto property with neglected, overgrown, forest encroached, or low fertility pastures. As you can imagine, the conventional orthodoxy of tillage, planting seeds, and spreading fertilizer is not my protocol. I created the content, outline, filming schedule and picked the locations where we’d film.

Pasture 52

Pasture Fertilizer Forestry Forage 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

That means that when there is a heavy rainstorm, the soil will keep absorbing it even while less fertile soils let the rain (and associated nutrients) wash off into nearby bodies of water. Such practices can also reduce nitrous oxide emissions, in part by reducing the need to apply synthetic fertilizers.

Ranching 71

Ranching Crop Greenhouse Pasture 71

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The biosolids created as sewage breaks down can be used as fertilizer on farmland, a practice that the Environmental Protection Agency still touts as “beneficial,” even though spreading these highly toxic chemicals across farmland allows the compounds to leach into the groundwater, contaminate crops grown on the land, and affect grazing animals.

Farming 112

Farming Farming Farmland Crop 112

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

After heavy grazing, a mixed summer forage is still building soil. Last week’s post highlighted the stories of farmers who have used practices from the Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry practice list to build climate resilience and mitigation solutions. The mix includes sorghum-sudangrass, sunn hemp, cowpeas, and millet.

Pasture 93

Pasture Crop Farming Farming 93

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Expands the types of “new or innovative conservation approaches” funded through On-Farm Conservation Innovation Trials to include on-farm nutrient recycling, perennial production systems including agroforestry and perennial forages and grain crops, and livestock-related practices that reduce GHG emissions including enteric methane emissions.

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Ruralism Food Farming Farming 106