It was a hot summer night in August 1959. The summer doldrums brought on by the hot and humid days and nights of southeast MO had set in. An essay that brings life on the farm in the 1950s back to life.
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Spending the past month living in an eco-community and permaculture farm has taught me a lot about small scale agriculture.
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The Three Sisters is an ancient planting technique of combining corn, beans and squash on the same bed. When planted together, they provide benefits to the other two plants around them.
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Farmers are dealing with the most complex biological system on a daily basis, nature.
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I’ve wrapped up my work at my first farm stay in New Zealand on a 15 acre permaculture farm. Over the past couple of weeks I have had the chance to prepare beds for planting, practice seed-saving, seed fresh beds and more. Along with these farm tasks I have also learned a lot about challenges of small scale vegetable growers.
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Check out what a Farm Gym workout looks like. When you are working the land everyday, no gym is necessary. All you need is sun, photosynthesis and some farm tools.
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Often times we think about eating pork, not pigs. Or eating beef, not cows. We think about meat as food, rather than animals. Animals can be an important part of a regenerative farm.
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