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FENCELINE FINESSE

The Lunatic Farmer

The idea is to create something valuable that incentivizes you to keep after the pruning. In the ideal world, you’d line all your fence lines with orchard trees, but the best I’ve been able to do is bring on really useful regular trees. Pasture is on one side and over time, a nice tree edge is on the other side. One final thing.

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Our 2023 Food and Farming Holiday Book Gift Guide

Civil Eats

Even monarch butterflies have lost habitat due to the prevalence of monocrop avocado orchards, along the once lush, biodiverse hillsides of Michoacán in Mexico. “Choose one from Chile and you might be furthering the extraction of much-needed fresh water.” Yet Eldridge is far from calling for an avocado boycott.

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