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Soil Health to Go! with Darlene Goehringer of Pop’s Old Place
In June, we are excited to bring Pop’s Old Place to our monthly Soil Health to Go lunch and learn. For 20 years, Darlene Goehringer and her husband Arthur Wilson have farmed land formerly stewarded by her great grandfather, hence the name: Pop’s Old Place. A Maryland...
Twilight Tour: Burrier’s Linganore Farm
Join the Million Acre Challenge at Burrier’s Linganore Farm for a Twilight Tour of this Leopold Conservation Award-winning farm, a program designed to recognize and celebrate extraordinary achievement in voluntary conservation by agricultural landowners. We'll learn...
JOURNEY TO SOIL HEALTH…WITH BRYAN RACINE, RACINE FAMILY FARM
Established: 1960s; introduced regenerative practices in 2017 Farm Size: 250 acres Product/Output: Corn, beans, wheat Region: Cecil County, MD Favorite Piece of Farm Equipment: No-till drill The words of cover-cropping coach Steve Groff -- “if you’re not scared,...
January 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...
Journey to Soil Health… with Sam White and Amanda Paul, Leaning Pine Farm
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 over the farm with the help from his daughter Amanda and her husband Sam White.
August 2021 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 rainfall events becoming more common every year.
Journey to Soil Health… with Ron Holter, Holterholm Farms
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 rest of the land.
July 2021 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 Executive Director Atiya Wells.
Journey to Soil Health… with Oksana Bocharova, Oksana’s Produce Farm
Taste is Oksana Bocharova’s measure of success for her produce grown in Chestertown, Maryland. “When I’m selling at the [farmers] market, people say, ‘Your vegetables are so tasty!’ And I know I’m doing something right,” says Oksana.
June Newsletter
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.