Order vs. Wildness: The Land Management Question
The idea, perpetuated by Thoreau, that farming order and wildness were mutually exclusive and therefore required segregated and designated areas allows landscape managers to be lazy about wildness.
Tractor Time Episode 11: John Kempf, Founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture
John Kempf is the founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture, a crop consulting company, and is an expert in the field of biological and regenerative farming.
Tractor Time Episode 10: Mark Shepard and Water Control on the Farm
In this week’s podcast, we are featuring Mark Shepard’s talk from the 2016 Eco-Ag annual conference in Omaha, Nebraska, where he spoke to a very full hall on his sustainable water practices he uses on his farms. It’s also the subject of his new book that we will be releasing later this fall, so stay tuned for that. It’s under production as we speak.
Tractor Time Episode 9: Ben Hartman and How to Make a Living on One Acre
In this week’s podcast, we’re going all the way back to last year’s Acres USA Eco-Ag Conference in Omaha, Nebraska. There, an author-farmer named Ben Hartman spoke for more than an hour about a little miracle he and his wife, Rachel Hershberger, created in southern Michigan.
Tractor Time Podcast Episode 8: André Leu, Author of The Myths of Safe Pesticides
In the Acres U.S.A. world, André Leu is becoming much more than a household name. Leu, who has written for Acres U.S.A. magazine for years, is the author of The Myths of Safe Pesticides and its follow-up, Poisoning Our Children. He has spoken on the dangers of...