Submitted Wed, 04/10/2019 – 4:52pm This article was submitted by Kim Erndt-Pitcher, Habitat and Agricultural Programs Specialist at Prairie Rivers Network. Kim can be reached at [email protected]. The warm weather is arriving! While you are getting ready to plant, weed, and harvest the fruits of your labor, when you pause to taste some spinach, smell […]
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by Lisa Bralts I’m sure you know how it is. Everything’s ready to go. Supplies have been acquired; plans are in place. Said plans are verging on being put into action when some external factor – over which there is no control – comes rudely into play. Perhaps that external factor is weather (it often […]
SARE Farmer / Rancher Grant
Submitted Wed, 11/15/2017 – 2:22pm This week’s blog entry is from a guest writer. If you are interested in your article or blog entry being featured on the TLC blog, contact [email protected]. By: Ann Swanson, Hendrick House Food Service When we decided to embark on this farm adventure five years ago I did not take […]
Strip Grazing for Soil Health
by Ted Krauskopf, Hickory Flat Cattle Co. As a producer, I recognize the benefit of rotational grazing versus set stock grazing. In 2008 we expanded the pasture on our farm to include a total of 90 acres of former cropland plus about 20 more acres of a combination of timber area, and some riparian area […]
Time to Rest
Submitted Mon, 01/07/2019 – 12:56pm This week’s blog entry is from a guest writer, Maggie Taylor, Delight Flower Farm. The end of the growing season is always bittersweet. Sometimes it feels like we just got into a good rhythm, only to have it abruptly halted by the first frost. Other times, we’re pining for the […]
What do farmers do in the winter?
Submitted Sun, 02/24/2019 – 8:17pm This week’s blog entry is from a guest writer. If you are interested in your article or blog entry being featured on the TLC blog, contact [email protected]. By: Traci Barkley, Sola Gratia CSA Many times over, we hear the question- “What do you/farmers do in the winter?” The short version […]
