Posts Tagged ‘sare’

Trantham’s Sustainable 12 Aprils Dairy Grazing Program

Tom Trantham was one of South Carolina’s top producing dairymen back in the 1980s. But he wasn’t making much money. He ran a typical confined feeding operation and his feed bill alone ate up 65 percent of his gross income. Then something happened that changed his life. One day in April 1989 his cows broke [...]

Roger Rainville: a Farmer’s Journey toward Energy Independence-coming soon to CUpS

August 19, 2010; Alburgh, Vermont. Roger Rainville has been a dairy farmer all his life. 5 years ago, on Borderview Farm, Rainville sold off all his dairy cows, about 120 of them, and now raises 50 replacement cows. He has also converted his 300 acre farm into becoming a research farm, with over 3000 test plots [...]

Sustainable Food: Earthen Path Organic Farm (video)

Oak Center, Minnesota. You might say organic farmer Steven Schwen plows a different path through life; one built of a strong connection to the land, without many of the trappings we normally would associate as necessities of modern living. It was a deliberate choice that he made. Schwen believes that we, as a society, have [...]

Growing Interest in Farmers Market (video)

Have you noticed the growing interest in farmers markets? Well, the official stats have just been released, and their numbers are growing, robustly. In the Portland area alone, there are 5 new farmers markets this year, 37 in total! Last year, while filming at the Earthen Path Organic Farm, in Oak Center, MN, I spoke [...]

Tom Trantham-Twelve Aprils Grazing Program Coming Soon

July 2, 2010; Pelzer, South Carolina. In 1989, dairy farmer, Tom Trantham, was facing almost certain financial collapse on his conventional, 92 cow dairy farm operation. With the costs of animal feed skyrocketing, many farmers were turning to BST to increase milk production, a hormone purported at the time of being safe, and as the [...]

No Till Farmer: Steward of the Land (video)

Gettysburg, South Dakota. This is a story about a farmer, Dan Forgey, and his connection to the land, and the community in which he has lived throughout his life. This is also a story about a true pioneer, and the pioneering spirit that seems to inspire this particular community of farmers to farm in a [...]

Growing Cover Crop with a Cash Crop (video)

Dan Forgey, of Cronin Farms, describes his ongoing research with cover crops, this time looking at how they might be grown in sync with a cash crop of corn.

The Next Step: Adding Cover Crop to a No Till System (Video)

As manager of the 8,500-acre Cronin Farms in Gettysburg, S.D., Dan Forgey strives to build soil health—and yields—sustainably.