The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 7, 2021

Obviously the disturbance, and then those deep tap rooted weeds, awakened the latent seed bank of timothy (some seeds no doubt had lain dormant for decades) and the conditions were perfect for that wonderful grass to express itself. But we more than made up for it the following year with the thick, magnificent stand of timothy.

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Plowing Pruning Logistics Manure 52

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 30, 2024

In the 90-minute ritual, she distributes buckets of grain and hay for the cows’ breakfast, scrapes away animal feces, fills the water trough bucket by bucket, milks the dairy cows, feeds the barnyard cats and new kittens, and shepherds sometimes recalcitrant cows out to pasture. It’s a lot of work. “To The hands-on part is the most important.”

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Farming Farming Aquaculture Food 87

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 5, 2024

At the beginning of the 21 st century, nomadic pastoralist cultures throughout the world are under siege, regarded as backward, and losing their ancestral pasture grounds to ‘development’, from mining and irrigated agriculture to green energy projects. While weeding the fields, the camels also fertilise them with their manure.

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Livestock Food Forage Cattle 75

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Now, White Oak Pastures—a significant player in the regenerative agriculture movement—raises cows on organic pasture, allowing them to carry out their instinctual behaviors in a rotational system. On the impacts of neonics—the chemicals that coat most corn and soy seeds in this country—especially, her experience illuminates so much.

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Food Farming Farming Seeding 145