A Little Dirty History

Posted January 20th, 2015 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Land Conservation, Loon Commons blog.

The United Nations-Food and Agriculture Organization has declared 2015 the International Year of Soils. That’s fitting, given how reliant the entire world is on keeping our soil in place, as… Read more »

Dust-to-Dust: Don’t Blame the Drought

Posted November 30th, 2012 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog, rural.

I recently phoned members of my geographically far-flung family to give them Thanksgiving greetings and was struck by a common element of our ensuing conversations. From Iowa and Nebraska to… Read more »

USDA Secretary: You Can Make Conservation History

Posted April 4th, 2011 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture.

An April 1 letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack from LSP Associate Director Mark Schultz: Congress and the Obama Administration are currently evaluating measures aimed at reducing federal spending for… Read more »

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