by Anica Wong | Nov 30, 2023 | Climate Change, Down to Earth, Erosion Control, Grazing, Ranching, Soil, Water, Working with Nature
Land, sheep, and the inefficiency of being too efficient Elena Miller Ter-Kuile is a sixth-generation farmer living in southern Colorado. At Cactus Hill Farm she and her father raise sheep for wool, grass-fed meat and organic grain and hay––practices held by her...
by Lynne Whitbeck | Sep 5, 2023 | Down to Earth, Erosion Control, Radical Center, Rangeland Science, Soil, Water, Working with Nature
Weathering global change on an Oregon sheep ranch Jeanne Carver and her husband were doing regenerative practices, including no-till and rotational grazing, at the Imperial Stock Ranch in Maupin, Oregon. But when the company that had been buying their wool for over a...
by Lynne Whitbeck | Aug 22, 2023 | Down to Earth, Erosion Control, Radical Center, Rangeland Science, Soil, Water, Working with Nature
From mountaintops to farm fields: Landscape scale restoration Jan-Willem Jansens has been restoring landscapes in New Mexico for three decades. Owner of Ecotone Landscape Planning, he is part of a network that works to restore land that has been damaged by generations...
by Lynne Whitbeck | Jan 31, 2023 | Climate Change, Cooking, Decolonizing Ag, Down to Earth, Racial Equity, Soil
In her new book Liz Carlisle explores rich food traditions from the Americas, Asia, and Africa that have survived and thrived in the U.S.—and how they are helping to restore land and climate, and bring about a more just and humane world.
by Lynne Whitbeck | Jan 17, 2023 | Climate Change, Down to Earth, Ranching, Rangeland Science, Soil
TomKat Ranch manager Mark Biaggi talks about dealing with winter floods, summer droughts, and degraded landscapes––and the process of continual experimentation that leads to dramatic regeneration of damaged land.
by Lynne Whitbeck | Dec 15, 2022 | Climate Change, Down to Earth, Rangeland Science, Soil
The land and its creatures looked very different when the first people arrived on this continent. Dan Flores‘ book Wild New World traces human impact up to the present––and the choices we’re looking at now.