Farm as Natural Habitat

Healthy Farms, Healthy Frogs, Healthy Land

December 2, 2013
Brian DeVore
agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog
amphibians, Apocalyptic Planet, Burleigh County Soil Health Team, cover crops, diverse farming, Farm as Natural Habitat, frogs, Land Stewardship Project, perennial farming systems, pollinators, riparian grazing, soil health, sustainable agriculture, wildlife

While walking a piece of North Dakota landscape under a withering summer sun, one’s thoughts turn to moisture—or rather, the lack of it. So when I and other participants in a soil…
Fertilizer, Fishing & Farmer Specht

July 19, 2013
Brian DeVore
agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog, Water
Big Spring, cover crops, Dan Specht, Farm as Natural Habitat, grazing, Gulf dead zone, Jeff Klinge, Land Stewardship Project, Mississippi River, monocrops, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, nitrates, nitrogen pollution, Practical Farmers of Iowa, sustainable agriculture

Dan Specht, who was taken from us all too soon last week by a haying accident, was the embodiment of the stewardship farmer. His kind, curious nature—housed in a powerfully-built, bear-like body—was…