In 1938, Wilbert Paul started out as a dairy farmer with “three cows and one blind pony,” as the family puts it. After just a couple of years, Wilbert purchased his first tractor—a 1938 Allis Chalmers B., which is still in his family today. Wilbert’s son Jim eventually took...
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 rainfall events becoming more common every year.
For fifth-generation dairy farmer Ron Holter, change comes from the inside out and from the ground up. When he took over his father and uncle’s 250-acre farm in Jefferson, Maryland, they were a conventional Holstein dairy, housing their cows in large buildings and feeding them grain grown on the...
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 Executive Director Atiya Wells.
Taste is Oksana Bocharova’s measure of success for her produce grown in Chestertown, Maryland. “When I’m selling at the market, people say, ‘Your vegetables are so tasty!’ And I know I’m doing something right,” says Oksana.
If you join the Million Acre Challenge, you’ll begin to see themes emerge. One of the most important of these, which you’ll hear us talk about over and over again, is the value of cover crops.
As we move into summer, many consumers are wondering how they can support their local and regional regenerative farmers. We’re so glad you asked!
Growing a few vegetables on an apartment balcony might be a hobby for some people — but for Emma Jagoz, it was the first step down a path that would change her life. She decided to grow some arugula after she read it could boost a baby’s brain development....
Healthy soils are foundational to a robust food system and a thriving environment. Sustainable soil management can also be an important tool in mitigating the effects of climate change, since certain farming practices may have the capacity to pull greenhouse gases from the atmosphere into the soil where they...
Farmer panelists Keisha Cameron of High Hog Farm (GA), Jill Lada of Green Things Farm Collective (MI) and Rick Clark of Clark Land & Cattle and Farm Green (IN) discuss soil health management on their farms and the economics of these efforts. This session was originally presented live at...