Posts Tagged: Land Stewardship Letter

Agriculture: How Not to Be Tools of Our Tools

Posted October 11th, 2013 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog.

One recent August day, I stood in a field in North Dakota watching soil being spaded up and listening to farmers talk about the optimal cover crop seeding mixes, how… Read more »

Denying the Science, Derailing the Solutions

Posted December 23rd, 2011 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Water.

I talked to a Todd County farmer yesterday who uses 100 percent no-till  and other conservation measures to raise his crops. Conserving soil is important to him, and so he’s… Read more »

Conversations with the Land

Posted December 12th, 2011 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture.

Many good arguments can be made for supporting a type of agriculture less reliant on energy, technology and Wall Street, and more on soil, communities and people: it’s better for… Read more »