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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
After 20 years of the “typical” Washingtonian life, Judy Gifford decided it was time to go back to her roots. She had grown up on a small dairy farm in Connecticut, but, after college,...