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Coal Creek Farm has rolling hills, flowing water, flora and fauna, and clear cuts. Such beauty contrasted with such abuse. For years, as I drove by those clear-cut trees, I was troubled by the look of it. I knew that the land couldn’t be put into productivity and wasn’t providing much in the way of…
Soak Creek Farm Grant for Restoration
We love our working farm, from the cattle to the trees, from the mushrooms to the bees. But the farm doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It exists in a beautiful biologically diverse system. So we work to improve farm productivity and environment, and support land restoration efforts, while we support the work to do the…
Protecting and Restoring
At Coal Creek Farm we are committed to generating profits while protecting and restoring environmental resources. We’ve had to make hard choices when invasive insects attack our native trees. We’ve been working with the Southeastern Grasslands Initiative to inventory the natural resources and restore lands that had been clear cut for years. We’ve deployed a…
Ginseng and the Trade War with China
Ginseng has quite the reputation. Did you know that Rasputin used ginseng to treat the hemophilia of the last Czar of Russia’s son? Or that ginseng’s scientific name Panax means all-healing in Greek? Now researchers are looking at ginseng to treat COPD and boost cancer-treatment drugs. Wisconsin farmers who cultivate the plant are hopeful that…
Appalachian Woodlands Forest Farming Grant
A new approach to cultivating and growing ginseng could expand opportunities for farmers and landowners while discouraging poachers. The goal is to cultivate and grow new plants in Appalachian forest. Doing so can create additional value—Wild American Ginseng being a valuable botanical and an endangered plant. It makes sense to take advantage of Appalachian agriculture…
Invasive Species
Cut Pile (download) Cut Pile 2 (download) Stump Video (download) This farm is some place special and I intend to manage it so that it maintains what’s breathtakingly beautiful and productive and enhances what needs to be enhanced. The maintenance of it includes management of invasive species. Invasives come as insects and trees. They come…