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We love our farm and work hard to find ways to steward the natural resources there while ensuring we’re a profitable operation. Working with environmentalists, we’ve developed a process to burn fields then graze our cattle there. We’re finding native grasses returning. From there, habitat and food for native wildlife will return, especially the birds….
Benefits of Controlled Burning
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…
River Conservation and Ecotourism in River Management Society
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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…
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…
