Droving sheep at sunset with storm – Powder River Basin – Wyoming. Photo credit: Flickr CC via Jeremy Buckingham MLC. Talk about an idyllic farm picture. Scatter some sheep across a green “veriditas” pasture under a few trees. Or watch a collie herd a flock of sheep across a mountain rangeland. This mammal is a [...]
This post is to point readers to a 25-minute interview by Alex Smith (Radio EcoShock) of Allan Savory, CLIMATE SOLUTION: FROM AIR TO SOIL. Savory is a 76 year old pioneer biologist and agriculturalist from Zimbabwe. There is a lot of wisdom in Savory’s view though it is doubtful that humans will embrace it. The [...]
This article by Madeline Fisher for Crops & Soils magazine and the American Society of Agronomy is titled, “Sod-based rotations – New system could increase profits, reduce risk, and conserve resources” and describes an old-school farming method which needs to be revisited in this era of high-input agricultural costs since it can decrease a farmer’s [...]
