GoodFood World, April 25th, 2018 On a beautiful early summer day, more than 100 people gathered at Jody and Crystal Manuel’s Prairie Grass Ranch for a Montana Organic Association Farm Day to learn more about dryland cropping, cover-crop grazing, soil health, and control of the organic farmer’s nemesis: bindweed. Read more: Out in the Fields – Blending Farming and Ranching in the Drylands of the Northern Great Plains
Gail Nickel-Kailing, September 11th, 2017
Range rider Bree and her horse Shasta out for a morning’s ride. (Source: Hilary Anderson, Tom Miner Basin Association)
While traditionally range riders – “cowboys” of old – were men, many of the range riders in the Tom Miner Basin today are women.
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Bree Morrison tells about her life as a Read more: Montana’s NEW Range Riders
Gail Nickel-Kailing, September 10th, 2017
Montana is rightfully called Big Sky Country, and it’s not unusual to drive 3 or 4 hours to attend a meeting, visit friends, or join a field day to learn about ranching or farming. On a hot and smoky day in August, Anderson Ranch in the Tom Miner Basin, near Yellowstone National Park, hosted several dozen folks who came to learn more about resilient ranching. Read more: The Resilient Ranch
GoodFood World, August 17th, 2017
We all imagine that the beef we eat came from a cow living a happy-go-lucky life, frolicking on lush green pastures until a gentle and painless end. Obviously the average American does NOT want to meet their dinner while he/she is still standing. However, the idea that you could, if you wanted, meet the farmer who raised your dinner, is not so far fetched. Read more: Where’s your beef … from?
GoodFood World, August 10th, 2017
Enclosed by surrounding mountain ranges, where black cattle and white sheep graze in sunshine filtered through a slight haze of wildfire smoke, a community comes together to concentrate on healthy animals, healthy soil, and healthy families. Read more: It takes a community to raise healthy sheep!
GoodFood World, June 27th, 2017
When one of the world’s experts on soil health and land resilience (from Auckland, NZ, a 9,500 mile trek) is scheduled to lead a day-long workshop just 170 miles away, you do everything you can to be there! Read more: A Soil Crawl in Big Timber, Montana
Gail Nickel-Kailing, December 8th, 2014
A newly-released e-book explores a farm owned and managed by two engineers who combine traditional low-tech methods of animal husbandry with high-tech, solar-powered solutions. Download your free copy here. Read more: Farming in the 21st Century
Gail Nickel-Kailing, December 2nd, 2013
Erick and Wendy Haakenson, and their son David and his wife Kristin, are farming in a floodplain skirted by the Snoqualmie River. An active farm nearly for 25 years, Jubilee Biodynamic Farm is home to one of the largest and oldest Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs in the state. Jubilee is an intensively managed, diversified farm comprised of 14 acres of fruits, vegetables, and grains and around 35 acres devoted to beef cattle, pigs, sheep, chickens, and ducks. Read more: This Much and No More – Jubilee Biodynamic Farm: Small is Beautiful
Gail Nickel-Kailing, January 7th, 2013
While imagining that the beef they will be eating came from a cow living a happy-go-lucky life, frolicking on lush green pastures until a gentle and painless end, the average American does NOT want to meet their dinner while it is still standing. However, the idea that you could if you wanted, or at least you could meet the farmer who raised your dinner, is not so far fetched. Read more: Meet Your Meat
Gail Nickel-Kailing, August 10th, 2012
Ohio this week became the first state to gain approval to sell meat from small, state-inspected slaughterhouses across state lines — a critical step toward rebuilding processing infrastructure for small-scale, regional meat and poultry producers. Read more: It’s a Go: Small, Local Meat Plants Can Sell Across State Lines
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Food From the Radical Center: Healing Our Land and Communities
By Gary Paul Nabhan
America has never felt more divided. But in the midst of all the acrimony comes one of the most promising movements in our country’s history. People of all races, faiths, and political persuasions are coming together to restore America’s natural wealth: its ability to produce healthy foods.
In Food from the Radical Center, Gary Nabhan tells the stories of diverse communities who are getting their hands dirty and bringing back North America’s unique fare. Read on...
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It is in response to today's particular agricultural challenges and embraces farmer entrepreneurial diversification. Watch the video here.
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