Tag Archives: regenerative agriculture

Conservation Crowdsourced

Posted on September 16, 2020 by Lone Tree Farm on Kanaranzi Creek

Back in the 1940s the US Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Services (NRCS) was called the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) and as a young beginning farmer my dad was using that as an information source. For example, we’ve got … Continue reading →

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Weeds and Feed: Learning from a Prairie Hill

Posted on July 15, 2020 by Lone Tree Farm on Kanaranzi Creek

About ten years ago, a part of a west-facing hill was fenced off (“exclusion”) from the rest of the pasture because it had a remnant prairie with lots of native plants. This year the exclusion was added back into the … Continue reading →

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Healthy Soil

Posted on May 15, 2019 by Lone Tree Farm on Kanaranzi Creek

  This bright yellow ATV was unloaded from the pickup and used to collect soil samples in our west quarter several weeks ago. We don’t have the results back yet, but the 2½ acre grid is the same as that … Continue reading →

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