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Check out this story from The Guardian: Read the whole story here or at...

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Pretty AND useful -- love it! :love:

Sounds like the wee beasties have a bounteous buffet in your garden, Mike! At the opposite end of the spectrum of how to feed wee garden beasties, 40 years ago my gardening mentor Gram shared her very simple but effective version of composting. She gardened in wide rows but not in raised beds...

This is a cool idea, mikethewormguy! Thank you for sharing the step-by-step process! Have you done any soil tests to compare the before and after of this fermenting/composting process? Among other attributes, I wonder about bacteria vs fungi ratio. I'm curious too about the fermented food...

With Earth Day just around the corner, you are invited to attend a FREE virtual event: Regenerative Ag's Role in Mitigating Climate Change on Saturday, April 22 at 7:30 PM EST

Today's the day to celebrate farm animals, the farmers who carefully nurture them, and the many ways that healthy farm animals enrich our world. Here's an explanation of the celebration from the National Day Calendar:

I've no firsthand experience with feeding biochar, Mike, but where I've seen it most discussed is in reducing digestive methane production by feedlot cattle. I went googling to find answers to your questions and didn't come up with anything definitive -- plenty of intriguing titles for research...

This week in Civil Eats, Iowa farmer Wendy Johnson proposes improvements to the Farm Bill: Read the full story here.

This article by Natalia Galicza in the Deseret News tells us that I learned that And that Read the whole article at https://www.deseret.com/2023/3/31/23642024/native-trees-environmentalism-conservation?utm_source=www.mountainwestnews.org&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=the-great-displacement.

Good point, Mike. As your post hints, the way we handle manure has huge impacts on the whether we are creating pollutants or soil nutriments. The best way I've seen for manure to be beneficial to soil, the climate, and in many cases our pocketbooks, is through bale and swath grazing. I know...

NCAT Sustainable Ag Specialist Lee Rinehart put together a useful resource for producers investigating residual ag chemicals in their soils. In case you have trouble downloading the attached file, I've also pasted Lee's information below. Thank you, Lee, for putting together and sharing this...

Great new short video from the Agrisolar Clearinghouse:

Thank you, Elbert and Mike! So glad you find the resources helpful! Please share any that you've found that others might benefit from -- there's a lot of great information out there. Some not so great or just plain wrong stuff too -- which is why it's helpful to share trusted sources of information!

Wow, what a powerful team of presenters! I wish I could be in Kansas to attend this great school! Register soon if you are lucky enough to be in the region!

On March 22, hot off the press at USDA NRCS: For lots of great info on NRCS programs related to water, see https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/conservation-basics/natural-resource-concerns/water?utm_campaign=0321waterday.

My favorite video explaining Johnson-Su compost: Many questions are answered here!

Don't worry if you missed the NCAT conference session on agroforestry -- it's here and it's great!

See the recording of Day 1 of the conference here. Keynote by Dr. Rattan Lal, and panel discussion featuring Dr. Jeff Creque, Loren Poncia, Molly Taylor, Stemple Crrek Ranch, and PT Ranch.