perennial farming systems

Healthy Farms, Healthy Frogs, Healthy Land

December 2, 2013
Brian DeVore
agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog
amphibians, Apocalyptic Planet, Burleigh County Soil Health Team, cover crops, diverse farming, Farm as Natural Habitat, frogs, Land Stewardship Project, perennial farming systems, pollinators, riparian grazing, soil health, sustainable agriculture, wildlife

While walking a piece of North Dakota landscape under a withering summer sun, one’s thoughts turn to moisture—or rather, the lack of it. So when I and other participants in a soil…
Restoring Watershed Health: Drop-by-Drop

May 20, 2011
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Water
agriculture, Blue Earth watershed, flooding, grass, Lansing Shepard, Madelia Model, Paula Westmoreland, perennial farming systems, prairiie grass, riparian areas, This Perennial Land, water quality, wetlands

Another rainy Friday: a good time to contemplate what trying to produce food on an industrial scale has done to our natural plumbing—and how it pays back the favor.
Profits from Perennials

September 28, 2010
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Water
biodiversity, Chippewa 10%, grass, grazing, Gulf dead zone, local foods, Minnesota River, Mississippi River, perennial farming systems, perennials, runoff, sediment, sustainabkle agriculture, Troubled Waters, working lands conservation

One bright spot in the dust-up over the showing of the film Troubled Waters is that it highlights an important water quality issue: we need more perennial plant cover on the land…
The Danger of Endangered Rivers

June 11, 2010
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture
A Watershed Year, Cedar River, climate change, Dennis Keeney, diverse farming, floods, Laura Jackson, perennial farming systems, soil erosion, sustainable agriculture

An endangered river is dangerous—the Cedar River proved that exactly two years ago this week.