Resilience, Issue 40 – Beyond Resilience

by Lynne Whitbeck | Mar 7, 2018 | Grazing, Resilience, Water, Wildlife

Read me... Resilience, Issue 40 – Beyond Resilience September 2014 In 2007, the Board of the Quivira Coalition added the words “build resilience” to our mission statement. Resilience means “to bounce back” or “recover quickly” from a shock or surprise. In...

Resilience, Issue 39 – 2% Solutions for Hunger Thirst and CO2

by Lynne Whitbeck | Mar 7, 2018 | Beavers, Carbon Ranch, Grassfed Beef, Grazing, No Till, Resilience, Riparian Restoration, Water

Read me... Resilience, Issue 39 – 2% Solutions for Hunger Thirst and CO2 September 2013 These 2% Solution profiles are part of Quivira’s Carbon Ranch Project, whose goal is to share land management strategies that sequester CO2 in soils and plants, reduce...

Resilience, Issue 38 – A Place Worth Calling Home

by Lynne Whitbeck | Mar 7, 2018 | Collaborative Conservation, Economics, Grazing, New Agrarians, Resilience, Riparian Restoration

Read me... Resilience, Issue 38 – A Place Worth Calling Home October 2012 Sustainability. Adaptation. Mitigation. Local. Grassfed.These words, so much in the news today across the globe, barely registered on people’s radar screens fteen years ago. For example,...

Resilience, Issue 37 – Lessons Learned

by Lynne Whitbeck | Mar 7, 2018 | Bill Zeedyk, Collaborative Conservation, Comanche Creek, Grassfed Beef, Grazing, Land Health, Resilience

Read me... Resilience, Issue 37 – Lessons Learned January 2012 This issue includes – Reflections from a “Do” Tank: Quivira and Conservation in the WestRestoring Land Health to Small Properties: Lessons from Quivira’s Red Canyon Reserve                    ...

Resilience, Issue 36 – A Carbon Ranch

by Lynne Whitbeck | Mar 7, 2018 | Grazing, Land Health, New Agrarians, Resilience, Riparian Restoration

Read me... Resilience, Issue 36 – A Carbon Ranch December 2010 For this inaugural issue of Resilience, we are introducing a new idea: The Carbon Ranch. Its purpose is to mitigate climate change by sequestering additional carbon dioxide in plants and soils,...

Resilience, Issue 35 – The Back Forty

by Lynne Whitbeck | Mar 7, 2018 | Carbon Ranch, Grassfed Beef, Grazing, Land Ethic, Land Health, Resilience, Traditional Agriculture, Water

Read me... Resilience, Issue 35 – The Back Forty February 2010 “The only progress that matters is on the actual landscape of the back forty.” – Aldo LeopoldThe news from the Back Forty is very encouraging. In many places that I have visited, people are solving...