This article excerpt originally appeared in the May 2018 Vol 48, No. 5 issue of ACRES USA magazine. It is written by Abbey and Spencer Smith. Readers may view and download a full PDF of this article. Introduction to Carbon Farming …
Holistic Planned Grazing: Supporting a Drought-Resilient Landscape
– This article first appeared in the July 2017 issues of ACRES USA Magazine. Written by Abbey and Spencer Smith In California, many farmers and ranchers are either drilling wells to get more water for their crops or putting in …
How to use a refractometer to measure nutrient density in plants, vegetables and fruit
Food that makes us sick In a JeffersonHub.com post from spring of 2016, “Why healthy soil matters” we discussed the current state of our food system and analyzed why our population is in the condition of chronic illness that we …
Kiss the Ground
Kiss the Ground We are excited to announce that Kiss the Ground is sponsoring- Build Soil, Build Wealth. This collaboration will bring a regenerative agriculture course to Shone Farm, in Santa Rosa California. Kiss the Ground has been active in …
Designing a drought proof landscape that will produce more and improve profit: Mark Shepard and Spencer Smith collaborate to offer course
Flood in the winter, drought in the summer This is a common enough thing to hear in seasonally dry environments, even farmers and ranchers will complain about too much rain in the winter and then lament about the long dry …
Bale Grazing: Transform your landscape during winter feeding
Are you feeding in a sacrifice lot? All too often on ranches all over the west, people winter their livestock on feed grounds that end up looking like ground zero after a bombing. The soil is packed hard and when …
8 Examples of Functioning and Not-so-Functioning Ecosystem Processes
Savory Institute Online Courses I got my first computer when I went to college at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in 1999. It was a Gateway. It was enormous. My roommate, Liz, and I had our own desktop computers and …
Why healthy soil matters
“You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.” – Dr. Linus Pauling, two-time Nobel Prize winner “Sick soils mean sick plants, sick animals and sick people.” What is the condition of our food supply, …
Gardening with Animal Impact
Ever since visiting Dimbangombe Ranch in Zimbabwe, I’ve wanted to use livestock to grow crops. Cows in the cornfield? What? The Africa Centre for Holistic Management, our fellow Savory Network Hub near Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe is where Spencer and I …
Soil Health vs. Soil Quality
Soil Quality? Manage for health instead. The term “soil quality” thrown around a lot and I have a real problem with that. Soil quality leaves us with the impression that it is as good as it can be and at …