You may have heard about pollinator strips, buffer strips, prairie strips, etc. What’s the difference, and how could you have one on your farm? Buffer strips tend to be on the outlying areas and edges of the main growing space. They also tend to feature less varieties of plants but do their job of reducing runoff & erosion. Yay, less soil is lost to rain! Pollinator strips also reduce erosion, but they are placed within production areas. I’ve seen pollinator strips between

When properly utilized many regenerative agriculture practices can be an effective part of a farms produce safety plan. Where Produce Safety and Regenerative Agriculture Overlap: Buffer Strips, Pollinator Habitat, and NRCS Conservation Practices Regenerative agriculture is sometimes discussed as being in direct conflict with produce safety. As stewards of the land that we work, produce safety and regenerative agriculture need to coexist. This is where co-management comes into

Photo by Eighth Day Farm via https://www.facebook.com/EighthDayFarm I have had the unintentional opportunity to spend a lot of time this year thinking and writing about agricultural water. There is a good reason for this. Water plays a very important role in both farm productivity and produce safety. One practice that intersects many farm priorities is microirrigation, more commonly known as drip irrigation. What is Microirrigation? Microirrigation, or drip, is a system desig