A Farmer's Guide to Planting and Protecting Trees, Part Two
A Farmer’s Guide to Planting and Protecting Trees, Part Two The first years are the hardest, but nature finds a way If you missed last week’s post about all the...
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A Farmer's Guide to Planting and Protecting Trees, Part Two
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Bio Pivot and Good Farming: Two Reasons for Cautious Optimism in Farming
Bio Pivot and Good Farming: Two Reasons for Cautious Optimism in Farming The Problem There’s a steady drumbeat of bad news associated with farming. Agriculture plays a role in topics...
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What Epicurious Gets Wrong About Beef
Website Epicurious recently announced that it will no longer be publishing recipes featuring beef. The statement itself is so milquetoast that, despite my best efforts, I have not been able...
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The Ugly Fight Between Organic and Regenerative Farming
When it comes to agriculture ‘organic’ and ‘regenerative’ are two words that should mean the same thing. Both conjure pictures of green pastures dotted with contented sheep, clean air, crisp...
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Can Farms Care For Workers?
By Garth Brown In last week's newsletter I linked to an article that discussed the mysterious circumstances in which New York agricultural workers were excluded from early vaccine eligibility, contrary...
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Brush Hogging
By Edmund Brown Last week in the newsletter Garth used a photo I took of our pigs in the woods. The lead photo in all its anodyne glory shows a...
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Will Roombas Replace Cows?
By Garth Brown As a child I loved looking at pictures of Rube Goldberg machines. In case you’re unfamiliar with the concept, these are fanciful mechanisms that accomplish a simple...
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Rotational Grazing Hardware
By Edmund Brown Two weeks ago I mentioned rotational grazing. I thought this week perhaps it would be interesting to show all the hardware I use to keep the cows...
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Cows vs. Wildfires
By Garth Brown An excellent article in The Counter examines the conflict over whether grazing cattle could decrease fires on western rangelands. Proponents say cows could help by removing excess...
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Farming Isn't Bad Enough
By Garth Brown In the public imagination (at least, in my imagined version of the public imagination) farming remains a bucolic activity, consisting of crickets chirping over a field of...
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Shut Down The Agribusiness Meat Packers
By Garth Brown On April 26th Tyson Foods ran a full-page ad in several papers, including the New York Times, warning that the “food supply chain is breaking.” This is...
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Cows and Land Use
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nFf0DXd3qw By Garth Brown When thinking about cows and climate it's easy to assume the major factors are methane and the fuel used to grow their feed. But a look...
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Cowbro Science
In response to my recent post soliciting reader questions, one that jumped out at me was about soil erosion and mineral depletion. Mineral depletion in particular is a topic of...
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