Resources for Farmers
Whether you farm 1 acre or 10,000 acres, the same soil health principles apply. Growing our "subsoil livestock" (bacteria, protozoa, earth worms, etc.) gives plants nutritional integrity for generating animal and human health. This requires a whole-system farming approach that balances the microbiome, minerals, soil structure, and plants available in each field, as nature intended. How this is done on each farm may differ depending on available equipment, markets, landscape, climate and more. Making one change, like adding cover crops or applying a biological, may not yield expected results, but finding the specific changes that make the whole system work in a more natural way has the potential to dramatically increase yield and nutritional integrity of crops, while at the same time decreasing input costs. The resources here are meant to inspire simple actionable steps for moving your farm in that direction.