Submitted by Jacquelyn Evers on Fri, 09/28/2018 – 11:39am When asked about my new position at The Land Connection, I would inevitably talk about our work with sustainable and organic farming. I should have anticipated that someone along the way would want a further explanation, but I didn’t and then THAT GUY surfaced to ask […]
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Celebrating Biodiversity
Submitted by Terra Brockman on Wed, 10/29/2014 – 12:51pm This past week, I attended the international Terra Madre conference of farmers, ranchers, fishers, and other people who bring real food to the table. One of the most impressive displays there was Slow Food’s Ark of Taste. The “ark” is virtual, but its contents are real. They are varieties […]
Grow With Savanna Institute
by Kristy Gruley, PhD, Education Program Manager, Savanna Institute Join Savanna Institute in seeing more diversity and trees across the Midwest – apply for an apprenticeship and/or new job positions now! My agroforestry apprenticeship at Mary Dirty Face Farm has served as a space to think, learn, practice, dream, and grow further into myself as […]
New Life for Maurer-Steingraber Farm
Tue, 10/12/2010 – 2:10pm On a cold March day in 2006, Sandra Steingraber called The Land Connection and mentioned that her grandmother Leah Maurer had passed away at age 100. At the time she contacted The Land Connection, Steingraber said, “I had already succumbed to the inevitability of losing this farm to urban sprawl development […]
Steingraber and Science on Organic Ag Feeding the World
Tue, 10/12/2010 – 3:44pm One of the oft-repeated criticisms of family organic farming is that family organic farmers “cannot feed the world.” The first response to this should be that chemical farming is not feeding the world, so it’s a bit like the pot calling the kettle black. The next should be to look at […]
