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!
Surrounded by rustling, rolling grasslands, an irrigated pasture, vegetable, grain, and fruit production dotted throughout this agrarian valley, the Summer Practicum Students found themselves at the end of their first week with a visitor at our Friday dinner potluck. Colin Seis hails from Australia, where he manages Winona, a 2,000 acre property producing merino wool,…
The School of Adaptive Agriculture does not advocate any one farming philosophy or style, unless it be sustainability in all its senses. But we do entertain a variety of strong voices on behalf of all sorts of approaches to the farming of the future. As a friend’s father says, “You’ll never get to the middle…
Meet the Students: Kayla and Dimitri by Daniel Spiro, graduate and rock of the SAA Stop by Ridgewood Ranch and the SAA campus on a sunny afternoon after classes have concluded for the day and you’re likely to find partners Kayla Cabradilla, 26, and Dimitri Brown, 28, putting in extra hours in the school’s diverse…
Coming at food through an education in art has allowed me to encounter food as an interplay of texture, color, and flavor outside of more traditional starting points like source and nutritional value or adherence to a specific cultural format. I have conceptually been able to play on ideas of the seasonal as emotional and…
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Though food is still plentiful, with only temporary and localized shortages, the threat of the COVID 19 crisis to the food supply is considerable. There is no evidence thus far that the disease can be transmitted via food or packaging (though the virus apparently remains viable on plastic for 2 to 4 days). The real…
