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Here are some updates with what has been happening on the farm! Application deadline is coming soon, reach out if you’re interested! Also, if you like these photos, follow us on instagram @school_of_adaptive_agriculture
Here are some updates with what has been happening on the farm! Application deadline is coming soon, reach out if you’re interested! Also, if you like these photos, follow us on instagram @school_of_adaptive_agriculture
Daniel Spiro continues his interview series with recent graduates from the School of Adaptive Agriculture. Like a steady bass line, Kevin Edmonson walks the grounds of the SAA quietly taking care of the myriad tasks that he has taken on, from helping to muck the stall in the barn where the sheep sleep, to turning…
by Michael Foley Whether you’re thinking about starting up a farm, just beginning, or been at it for awhile, the example of others should be an important part of your farming education. Two recent books survey a wide range of small farms – market gardens all – to inspire by example and inform in detail…
BEHIND EVERY SUCCESSFUL FARMER by Michael Foley The current crop of business advisers for the new generation of farmers sincerely hopes they can help those young farmers to successful farming careers. For them steady and consistent profits define success. Business advisers to farmers have always been convinced they could help farmers achieve such success. But…
*Read part 1 of Michael Foley’s post on Micro-Agriculture here * Making Micro-Agriculture Work I recently made the economic case for micro-agriculture, farming on three acres or less. A handful of farmers in Mendocino County are showing that very small-scale farming can produce a respectable income; and farmers around the country, including some well-known farmer-authors,…
The Thanksgiving Holiday has come in for a lot of criticism lately, some of it well-placed. But for all the truth in the complaint that is romanticizes relations between whites and Native Americans and obscures the terrible history of colonialism, that point itself obscures the profound message at the hear of the holiday — namely,…
“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…