by Million Acre Challenge | Jan 23, 2022 | newsletter
For the first time in a while, much of the area is getting what feels like actual winter. That’s good news for cover crops like tillage radishes that need several nights of temperatures below 25 to winter kill. But, it creates new layers of effort for livestock...
by Million Acre Challenge | Sep 22, 2021 | newsletter
August Newsletter This month’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was sobering and unequivocal: climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying. Farmers are on the front line of Its impacts, with longer, deeper droughts and intense...
by Million Acre Challenge | Aug 31, 2021 | Farmers Stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Farm Age: Established 1889; regenerative since 2000 Farm Size: 360 acres Product/Output: Grassmilk Dairy Region: Frederick County [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]For fifth-generation dairy...
by Million Acre Challenge | Aug 24, 2021 | newsletter
July Newsletter In July, we were thrilled to host state legislators and staff at two farms. We explored regenerative crop and livestock production and urban agroecology at BLISS Meadows/Backyard Basecamp with farmer Jordan Bethea and naturalist and...
by Million Acre Challenge | Jul 12, 2021 | Farmers Stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Farm Age: 7 years old Farm Size: 6.5 acres Product/Output: Vegetables and value-added products (pickled vegetables, kimchi, and kraut) Region: Chestertown, MD Favorite Piece of Farm Equipment: Her one tractor—the rest of her...
