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Congratulations to our winners of the Dale Strickler Tall Tale Drought Competition! Winklermw wins the non-fiction category with this post: And Paul Heberling wins the fiction (at least we hope this was fictional!) category with this post: For their winning entries, these tall tale tellers...

Rex Dufor of NCAT' California regional office wants to "let folks know about a resource sheet that CDFA recently put out for drought, which has both national and CA-focused resources for TA providers and farmers (attached)." Download the document for a lot of useful info on drought relief...

And the prizes will be -- drum roll, please: One first prize in each of the fiction and non-fiction categories: The winner gets a free copy of your choice of one of Dale Strickler's books: And Dale will select the overall grand prize winner at the end of our third webinar, Thursday, Sept...

Hey, I hope you're ready for another great webinar with Dale Strickler starting in just under an hour. The worksheet you can use to follow along during the webinar is attached here -- get ready to rank the various drought-beating options for how easy, fast, cheap, and impactful you think they...

Do you suppose the poor deluded donkey froze due to em-bare-ass-ment? 🙃

Hey, we've got a new, permanent home for the Drought Resilience Network that was started in the Dale Strickler webinar yesterday. Go to https://forum.soilforwater.org/forums/drought-resilience-network.67/ to find your community, and get to making your own posts! Connect with folks you met in the...

In last night's webinar, Dale Strickler announced the tall tale competition for our network. He said there will be prizes -- I expect he will announce winners at the third webinar in the series on Sept. 22 (you can sign up here if you haven't done that already). I wonder what the prizes might...

This from today's news at https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDAFARMERS/bulletins/32c18fe:

Hi, all, and it's great to see you here at the Soil for Water forum! This will be a space to start as many threads as you'd like on all things related to BUILDING DROUGHT RESILIENCE. Connect with peers, chat with technical assistance providers (we have a bunch of great people across the U.S...

Farmers from Taos Pueblo and the Navajo Nation are reclaiming traditions and restoring food sovereignty, according to this story by Lyric Aquino in High Country News: Read the story at...

Listen in on this short National Public Radio piece by Jonathon Ahl on silvopasture: Listen to the whole story at https://www.npr.org/2022/08/17/1117835154/moving-cattle-into-the-forest-could-help-climate-change-farmers-and-the-livestoc

Thank you, Elaine C., for sharing the link to this fantastic video of how to catch and hold more water in soil: It's all about using topography to improve the water cycle for the benefit of regenerative agriculture, land health, and downstream water users. Kudos to Don Tipping, the water wizard...

I like munching on lambsquarter leaves but haven't tried pigweed yet. I'll go foraging this weekend!

Civil dissent is always welcome here! Do you have another video to pitch as the best intro to the what, why and how of the soil sponge? Please share! The more the better! Thanks!

https://onland.westernlandowners.org/2022/the-working-wild/composting-a-recipe-for-conflict-reduction/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=a83d47cd-d7c7-447c-8b2f-869fffefbe0b

This is great info, Darron! Makes sense that these crops would work in Texas. I wonder what species might work in Montana -- very cold (down to -50F), very hot (up to 113F), windy, dry. Mostly clay loam soils, soil and water both with a pH between 8 and 9. Amaranth and Kernza will make it but...

Sweltering in the August heat and looking out at my drought blasted garden, I wonder if there are better crops I could be growing, ones that thrive despite scant water and way too many hot days. This article in The Guardian looks at five crops that could help feed the world...

The best single intro to the what, why and how of the soil sponge may be this video by Didi Pershouse:

In a recent article in the Wadena (Minnesota) Pioneer Journal, author Anne Bailey states: Well said! Read the full article at: https://www.wadenapj.com/opinion/columns/the-answer-to-soil-health-is-not-blowing-in-the-wind

In Seed World this week, author Cassidy Million shares soil health tips for farmers wanting to prep for a successful spring planting. Among the tips is this suggestion and compelling graphic: Read the full article at...