A Dirty Dozen, Agvocacy in Action
We started our 10 year anniversary with a challenge: pick an agvocacy idea to multiply your voice tenfold. Leveraging voices between the farm gate and consumer plate is the goal of 10x Connect, so we’re providing a “dirty dozen” of our most popular blog posts to provide you food for thought. The Tears I’ve Shed…Animal Abuse [...]
Continue Reading →No-Till, Mulch-Till, or Conventional-Till Corn?
It may seem like a strange title, but this is the type of question that is being asked thousands of times all around our state in various counties right now. Conservation and agricultural professionals are asking specific questions, about very specific fields, which have had this type of information collected from them for over 20 [...]
Continue Reading →Farm Photo Friday!
Today we have more photos from Mary Ann Hooker’s local market!
Continue Reading →Rain Deadline
Heat and drought continue to choke our farmland. South Central Kansas has recorded more than 30 days of 100-plus temperatures, about three times the annual average. Rainfall? Little to none. We had a few raindrops overnight, but the total was less than 1/10 in. That’s the only rain we’ve had on our farm since mid-June. We received very little moisture [...]
Continue Reading →Reflections from the Copperbelt: Changing Lives, One at a Time
With my visit to our Copperbelt Rural Livelihoods Enhancement and Support Project (CRLES) behind, and the daily routine of life back in full swing, I ponder the life-altering experiences over the last few days in Zambia. The facts still resonate in my ears: half the population attends primary school, nearly three-quarters of the population do [...]
Continue Reading →Stop the Fussing and the Fighting
I’m mad and I can’t take it any longer. I’m tired of all the arguing, and I think you are too. People have been fussing and cussing ’til they’re blue in the face and not getting anywhere. You turn on the tv, yes we’ve got tv here, latest in high definition technology in fact, and [...]
Continue Reading →Farm Photo Friday!
Thanks to Mary Ann Hooker for this weeks farm photos! She took them at her local farmer’s market.
Continue Reading →Farm Photo Friday!
Thank you to Norma Nice for this week’s farm photo! Sneaky Corn Borer in a Zinnia.
Continue Reading →Corn, Sweet Corn
I am standing in the middle of a corn field. It takes all my dexterity to walk without trampling any of the corn stalks (perhaps the training from ballet practice has been useful). It takes all my willpower to not take a big chomp out any of the corn, too. Whoever said it was unnatural for [...]
Continue Reading →Fields of Learning
David Schaad doesn’t know where he’ll go after graduating from the University of Montana. But he knows one thing: it will involve growing food — and not just because his food is delicious. He wants to support a growing alternative to the massive companies that — in his view, at the expense of the environment, [...]
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