by Lynne Whitbeck | Mar 19, 2019 | Down to Earth, Ranching, Working with Nature
“In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America’s lakes and rivers.”
by Lynne Whitbeck | Mar 6, 2019 | Down to Earth, Grazing, Health and Nutrition, Ranching, Rangeland Science, Working with Nature
Glenn Elzinga is a rancher on mostly public lands in the Idaho Rocky Mountains. He’s also a forester, and his wife is a botanist…and together they have developed a practice of cattle grazing called “inherding”.
by Lynne Whitbeck | Feb 19, 2019 | Down to Earth, Grazing, Health and Nutrition, Ranching, Soil, Working with Nature
If we were left to our own devices with a large selection of healthy food choices, how would we choose? Would we make healthy choices? What about livestock, and wildlife?
by Lynne Whitbeck | Feb 5, 2019 | Down to Earth, Economics, Farming, Grazing, Health and Nutrition, Ranching, Rangeland Science
We talk this week to On Pasture magazine founder Kathy Voth, whose mission is to make science accessible to people who need it–and to help keep them from being bamboozled by the latest agriculture fads.
by Lynne Whitbeck | Nov 28, 2018 | Down to Earth, Economics, Grazing, Ranching, Rural Communities, Soil
Jonathan and Kaylyn Cobb found a healthier way of farming when they rejected industrial methods and embraced regenerative practices. They tell the story of restoring degraded land through trial and error–and a big paradigm shift.
by Lynne Whitbeck | Oct 9, 2018 | Down to Earth, Economics, Farming, Grazing, Ranching, Rural Communities
Sixth-generation farmer Will Harris has led his farm back to its 19th century roots — and built on that to create a closed-loop, no-waste farm using regenerative practices and revitalizing their small Georgia town in the process.