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Rewarding Landowners for Protecting Wildlife Habitat

Thanks to Brianna Randall, NRCS Working Lands for Wildlife, for this article. The original has been edited for the On Pasture audience. Guided by extensive...

Carbon Farming Projects for Regenerative Graziers

In "The Future is in Your (Big) Hands" On Pasture author John Marble noted that farmers and ranchers have a much greater opportunity than...

Silvopasture is a climate conscious alternative to clearing forests for pasture

Thanks to the University of New Hampshire and Robbin Ray for this article. Land use change, like cutting down a forest to make way for...

Science is Your Friend

I was at a grazing workshop the first time I thought of creating On Pasture. A scientist stood up and carefully explained several studies...

ARS Scientists Discover the Longest-Lasting Natural Insect Repellent Yet – Coconut Oil

Thanks to Steve Elliot, Agricultural Research Service Office of Communication, for this article. Every year, stable flies and other blood-feeding pests take a $2.2 billion...

Want to Be a Better Thinker? Take a Shower!

This is the last month of On Pasture's regular publication schedule, and probably one of the most exhausting series of articles I've written. If you...

How to Think Through and Solve Problems

The two people you'll meet in this video are some of the brightest, most creative people I've ever worked with. They're also successfully developing...

How to Spread Compost as a Climate Change Solution in Your Community

Last week I introduced you to a practice that increases forage and soil's water-holding capacity while also doing a great job of sequestering carbon....

Some Good News About Slowing Climate Change

It's easy to get overwhelmed by bad news, especially if it seems the problem is so large that an individual has little ability to...

Ecosystems Are Becoming Less Efficient at Absorbing CO2

Note from Kathy: We live and work in a very complex system that doesn't always correspond with some of the simple explanations I've encountered...

The Future is in Your (Big) Hands

I included this quote in one of my posts last week, and it inspired a call from John Marble. He agreed with the sentiment,...

Forage Quality is Declining and Grasshoppers and Livestock Aren’t Happy

Something strange is happening to grasshoppers at the Konza Long-Term Ecological Research site in Kansas - they're disappearing a little at a time. For...

For More Forage, Improved Soil and a Better Climate Future Just Spread Compost

Studies have shown that if farmers spread a quarter inch of compost on just 50 percent of California’s rangelands, 42 million metric tons of...

A Farming Tragedy

I come from a long line of Mennonite farmers. My ancestors were among those invited to Ukraine by Catherine the Great in the mid-1700s...

Harsh Truths That May Change Your Life

Seems I have lots of advice to offer as I transition On Pasture to its future as a grazing library. Here's some more... I can't...

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