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Resilience
Quivira’s Annual Journal
Resilience, Issue 45 – Searching for Home Ground and What We Find Along the Way
Resilience, Issue 45 - Searching for home ground and what we find along the way Finding home ground: Our lives are spent searching for a sense of home, whether that’s on a plot of land, with a specific set of people, or a connection to something that fulfills us. The...
Resilience, Issue 44 – Microbes, Markets, and Climate
Resilience, Issue 44 - Microbes, Markets, and Climate December 2023 “How do you create resilient lands, economies, and communities?” “How does what you wear represent what you stand for?” “How might different compost microbial communities affect soil health and...
Resilience, Issue 43- Weaving Water, Land, and People
Resilience, Issue 43 - Weaving Water, Land, and People January, 2023 We are so very excited to share this year’s issue of Resilience with you. It is a rare but special space we collectively create in the pages of this magazine. One where science, practice, emotion,...
Resilience, Issue 42- Reflections on Resilience in Uncertain Times
Resilience, Issue 42 - Reflections on Resilience in Uncertain Times December, 2020 Welcome to the relaunch of Resilience. It’s been five years since our last issue appeared,in August of 2015, commemorating the life and work of our good friend and riparian...
Resilience, Issue 41- It Works! A celebration of Bill Zeedyk’s 80th Year
Resilience, Issue 41- It Works! A celebration of Bill Zeedyk's 80th Year August 2015 It is our great pleasure to bring you this 41st edition of Resilience. Not only is it a small token of our appreciation for the many ways that Bill Zeedyk has enriched our lives and...
Resilience, Issue 40 – Beyond Resilience
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 ecology, it refers to...
Resilience, Issue 39 – 2% Solutions for Hunger Thirst and CO2
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 greenhouse gas...
Resilience, Issue 38 – A Place Worth Calling Home
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, when we founded...
Resilience, Issue 37 – Lessons Learned
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
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, reducing greenhouse...
Down to Earth
A Planet to Plate Podcast
Episode 181 – Animal Welfare is Good for Everyone — Including Farmers
Animal Welfare is Good for Everyone — Including Farmers Adam Mason is senior manager of Farm Animal Welfare and Environmental Policy at the ASPCA, the American Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In our conversation, he talks about their multi-pronged...
Episode 180 – 1000 Farms Initiative: A New Paradigm of Science in Service of Farmers
1000 Farms Initiative: A New Paradigm of Science in Service of Farmers Entomologist, agroecologist, farmer, rancher, and beekeeper, Dr. Jonathan Lundgren, was a scientist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service for 11 years. He left to undertake regenerative...
Episode 179 – Virtual Fencing: New Technology that Benefits Ranching and Land Conservation
Virtual Fencing: New Technology that Benefits Ranching and Land Conservation The Nature Conservancy partners with ranchers on virtual fencing, a new technology that keeps animals in delimited areas through GPS collars — resulting in labor saving, wildlife...
Episode 178 – Regenerating a Desert Wetland Oasis
Regenerating a Desert Wetland Oasis Don Boyd spent a year on the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in central New Mexico, photographing, living, and finding a deep connection to land, water, and animals — including the many migrating birds that live part-time...
Episode 177 – The Awe-inspiring Beauty Hidden in our Food
The Awe-inspiring Beauty Hidden in our Food Robert Dash‘s new book, "Food Planet Future: The Art of Turning Food and Climate Perils into Possibilities," features photo collages of foods from all over the planet. Combining images from a scanning electron microscope...
Episode 176 – Painterland Sisters Yogurt: Regeneration at Every Step from Farmer to Consumer
Painterland Sisters Yogurt: Regeneration at Every Step from Farmer to Consumer Hayley and Stephanie Painter saved their farm by creating a national yogurt brand — and they’re committed to fostering not only nutrient dense, regenerative food, but also health at every...
Episode 175 – Agave, Mesquite, and a Carbon Drawdown Game-Changer
Agave, Mesquite, and a Carbon Drawdown Game-Changer André Leu knows what it takes to take massive amounts of carbon out of the atmosphere and put it into the soil permanently. We talk about his new book, The Regenerative Agriculture Solution. André Leu is co-founder...
Episode 174 – Commerce, the Destruction of Nature, and the Uphill Path to Sustainability
Commerce, the Destruction of Nature, and the Uphill Path to Sustainability Sara Dant‘s book, "Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West," covers the long history of human habitation on the North American continent — from the time that megafauna like...
Episode 173 – Colorado Peaches: Delicious for the Eaters, Fair for the Workers
Colorado Peaches: Delicious for the Eaters, Fair for the Workers Gwen Cameron grew up on Rancho Durazno, her family's peach farm. She was pursuing a career in journalism when her father asked her if she wanted to come back and take over the farm. She agreed and never...
Episode 172 – Black Farmers Regenerating Land in the Face of Historical — and Current — Racism
Black Farmers Regenerating Land in the Face of Historical — and Current — Racism P. Wade Ross‘s great grandfather was a runaway slave who bought land in Texas. His descendants founded Texas Small Farmers and Ranchers Community Based Organization, a non-profit that...
Technical Guides
For healthy working lands
A Peek at Indigenous Agroforestry in the Southwest y en español
A Peek at Indigenous Agroforestry in the Southwest K. Alicia Thompson with support from Quivira Coalition, Trees, Water & People and the Southwest Agroforestry Action Network. This is a synthesis of Indigenous-led agroforestry, and agroforestry more generally,...
Biochar in the Southwest y Biocarbón en el Suroeste
Biochar in the Southwest Using New Mexico Practices and Regulations as a Model CJ Ames and Eva Stricker, PhD, Quivira CoalitionKelpie Wilson, Wilson Biochar Associates This workbook offers practices on New Mexico lands as a model for making and using biochar in...
Blue Hole Cienega: A Curriculum for Desert Wetlands and the Unique Plants that Live There
Blue Hole Cienega: A Curriculum for Desert Wetlands and the Unique Plants that Live There This ecological curriculum for grades 6-8 uses place-based learning and activities to explore concepts in ecology, botany, and social dynamics of Blue Hole Cienega in...
Rural Dryland Composting y en Espanol
Rural Dryland Composting Aerated Static Piles and Worm Composting By Juliana Ciano and Trevor Ortiz, Reunity ResourcesEva Stricker and Linden Schneider, Quivira Coalition Our goal is to help rural communities efficiently use waste products to improve...
Soil Health Workbook y en espanol Salud de la Tierra Libro de Trabajo
Soil Health Workbook Fundamentals, Principles, and Management, For Producers and Technical Service Providers in the Dryland Intermountain West Developed by Eva Stricker, PhD, and Linden Schneider, MS Based on presentations by New Mexico Cooperative Extension...
Applying Keyline Design Principles to Slope Wetland Restoration in a Headwater Ecosystem
Applying Keyline Design Principles to Slope Wetland Restoration in a Headwater Ecosystem NMED-SWQB By Walton, M., J. W. Jansens, J. Adams, M. Tatro, and T. E. Gadzia. An interest in developing, testing, and documenting innovative approaches to slope wetland...
A Good Road Lies Easy on the Land
A Good Road Lies Easy on the Land... Water harvesting from Low-Standard Rural Roads A Joint Publication of The Quivira Coalition, Zeedyk Ecological Consulting, LLC “A road lies easily on the land if it is located on a landform where it can be readily and...
CO NRCS Range Technical Note
Hand-Built Structures for Restoring Degraded Meadows in Sagebrush Rangelands: Examples and lessons learned from the Upper Gunnison River Basin, Colorado USDA, State of Colorado, NRCS - Range Technical Note No. 40 May 2018 By Jeremy Maestas, Shawn Connor, Bill Zeedyk,...
Erosion Control Field Guide y en Español
Erosion Control Field Guide By Craig Sponholtz and Avery C. Anderson Sponholtz This field guide is intended to inform those who depend on the soil and its life-giving properties. This guide discusses ways to regenerate soil so that it holds more water, supports more...
Plug and Pond
The Plug and Pond Treatment: Restoring Sheetflow to High Elevation Slope Wetlands in New Mexico By Bill Zeedyk, Steve Vrooman, New Mexico Environment Department, and Surface Water Quality Bureau Wetlands Program This field guide is intended to inform those who depend...