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What a great story, John! Love your approach that's good for the community, the land, and your flock! Thanks for sharing!

Hey Darron, great questions! Not sure if it could be a solution in your client's situation, but one thing that works well is to place moveable water troughs up and a ways away from what y'all in Texas call stock tanks/ponds and we in the north call reservoirs, dams, or dugouts. Set up the water...

That's great, John! And you are most welcome! Please let us know how PastureMap works for you -- always eager to see customer reviews!

For more info on Denice's journey into agriculture, check out these ATTRA podcasts: Denice's shepherding tips and trials: https://attra.ncat.org/episode-244-shes-raising-sheep-indianas-denice-rackley/ Is a stockdog right for your farm...

Check out the regenerative journey of a member of the Soil for Water Network, and find her on the Soil for Water Atlas: Denice Rackley tells her fun and inspiring story of transformation from city girl to accomplished shepherd in this story in Producer's Voice: Read the full story --...

Seems like it just keeps getting hotter every year! How can producers adapt and thrive when the heat is on? Carol Clark writes in Emory University's eScience Commons that: Find the full article at: https://esciencecommons.blogspot.com/2022/07/soil-quality-critical-to-help-some-us.html

The Soil for Water team is grateful for a grant from USDA's Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program to work with diverse partners to advance the practice of regenerative grazing in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Virginia. John Lovett's article, posted today, explains: Want to...

A June 6, 2022, article by Virginia Gewin in Civil Eats states: Farmers from across the Great Plains are facing increasing challenges with winds beyond any they've seen before: What to do to keep your soil in place? Practice the soil health principles, especially keeping soil covered and...

You might use this checklist to consider and prioritize next steps on your journey with regenerative grazing. These are just a few links to useful information from among a universe of options, so let us know if there are other resources you'd like to recommend to the Soil for Water community...

A cool tool for investigating soil biology is the microBIOMETER, and their newsletter is well worth a read too. This article by Dr. Judith Fitzpatrick, from their June newsletter, addresses the basics as well as nuances of managing land to build vibrant soil microbial communities: Read the...

This compendium of soil concepts is fun -- like a kiddies' alphabet book, but for all of us who care about soil: See if you can guess what each letter might represent -- I learned a new word at "Z"...

According to a May, 2021 article in Civil Eats by Greta Moran, Western ranchers are restoring diverse, grassland ecosystem practices that can improve the land’s capacity to hold water—and help them hold onto more cattle. Julie Sullivan of Colorado is quoted: Moran goes on to state: We've yet...

At Soil for Water, our hearts go out to everyone impacted by catastrophic wildfires in New Mexico. As if the fires aren't horrendous enough, post-fire flooding can exponentially expand the damage to landscapes and communities. Carol Ekarius of the Colorado-based nonprofit Coalitions and...

A June, 2022, article by Kelsey Ogletree in Modern Farmer shares the impressive success of Brenda Smola-Foti in using well-planned landforming techniques to capture and hold more water in her farm's soil: Read the full article at: https://modernfarmer.com/2022/06/tabula-rasa-farms-oregon/

We are excited to welcome Susan Bergren and the Bergren Ranch to the Soil for Water Network and Atlas! Clearly, Susan is our kind of people, based on an article about Susan in Modern Farmer which stated: Read more at: https://modernfarmer.com/2018/05/healthy-soil-healthy-ranch/

Can our farming practices change the local climate, and if so, how? This 2018 article by Ellen Stuart-Haëntjens in Massive Science summarizes how the practice of summer fallowing in dryland small grain cropping systems affects local rainfall and temperatures: Read the story at...

HernanC, have you watched Brad's TedX video? It's a deeper dive ;) into harvesting rain to create abundance and a whole lot of joy!

In a May 26, 2022, article in Civil Eats, Rachel Becker covers the story of how Sacramento Valley growers protected for decades by their water rights are suffering for the first time during this record-breaking drought. Migrant workers, Tribes, fisheries and wildlife refuges are struggling, too...

Ric Caqulelin, retired NRCS Montana State Range Specialist, shared useful advice on exactly how to think about managing grazing lands through drought: https://www.phillipscountynews.com/story/2022/04/27/news/managing-grass-in-a-drought-ravaged-world/12796.html Read the article for details, but...

Not only might judicious thinning help reduce the risk of stand-replacing wildfires, but a recent study by Sankey and Tatum (Scientific Reports, 2022) found that restoration thinning of ponderosa pine forests can improve their drought resilience...