Oil and Larkspur
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s …
Sustainability
Crop Diversity Pays Off
Conventional agriculture production systems in developed countries rely heavily on fossil energy, but emerging uncertainties in energy supply indicate a need to better understand energy efficiency in conventional and alternative systems. So begins a press …
Why Pasture
I recently had the honor and pleasure of spending a weekend at a retreat that involved many great people, including Wes Jackson of The Land Institute. One of the highlights for me was when Wes displayed …
Nitrogen for Free
As a kid I remember being impressed by a story of several people adrift in a lifeboat in the open ocean. After a few days all their fresh water ran out and, in what is surely …
Value-Added Management
Something I really enjoy doing is describing how and why agroecological farmland management adds value. Farmland LP sets land-use rotation standards. This benefits specialty producers by creating synergies with other farmers to lower disease risks …