The Ohio Brooder was originally designed during WWII as a way of conserving resources while brooding chicks. Find photos and plans online to see an efficient and inexpensive way of raising chicks!
Welcome to this Spring’s Adaptive Agriculture Practicum Training Program! AdAPT students are taking on the challenge of producing food as a way of feeding communities and regenerating natural processes. These courageous, creative, and driven people will be working their way towards a better future. Here they are: Sarah “I currently work on a small farm…
Every time we visit or talk to a new farmer, we expand our perception of the possible. Whether it is a new gate latch or potato hilling technique, a new niche marketing concept or community building dynamic, or some other unique challenge with a context specific and creative solution, we find that farm tours and…
“I could do with less,” says Andrew Brown, current student at the SAA, and this sentiment succinctly captures the minimalist style of the one who prefers to go only by “Brown.” A former member of the California Conservation Corps, Brown, 22, can be identified any given day by the beanie and safety spectacles he wears…
The Joy of Farm Work by Michael Foley Walk through a garden and you may observe all sorts of things – or not. It may just be a blur to you, a pleasant one perhaps and one where you might pick out this or that plant you know. But, well, just another scene. Or you…
Like most small organizations and nearly all households around the country and the world, the School of Adaptive Agriculture is waiting out the storm. Two weeks ago we agreed to postpone indefinitely our Practicum Program, scheduled to start April 20th. We had admitted six wonderful students, offered generous scholarships and were looking forward to a…
Hi! I’m Lyndsey. For the duration of my 20s, I worked as in Concert and Festival Production. It was a very exciting and fun time of my life, and it gave me the chance to travel all over the country and see places I would have never gone to on my own. In 2012, I…
