Articles About agriculture :: Page 2

• Community, biodiversity through seeds

  By Lauren ShowsFebruary 19, 2022

  

  Seed steward Florentina Rodriguez debuted the Yellow Springs Community Seed Library last weekend, aiming to make that power available to everyone.

• New bread from age-old process

  By Lauren ShowsJanuary 4, 2022

  

  Local baker James Luckett and farmer Jon Branstrator recently discussed a experimental bread they’ve cooked up together — a sourdough that incorporates nixtamalized blue corn.

• Root causes

  By YS News StaffSeptember 25, 2020

  

  Earlier this month, the Tecumseh Land Trust and Community Solutions hosted a garden tour of the bountiful and blooming gardens of the village.

• On the history, future of Black farming

  By Carol SimmonsSeptember 17, 2020

  

  According to the USDA’s latest census report, released in 2017, Greene County has no Black-owned farms, out of a total 617. Neither does Clark County, with 742 total farms; while Montgomery County charts nine Black-owned farming ventures, of 782 farms overall.

• Local farmers eye uncertainty

  By Audrey HackettApril 11, 2020

  

  Life and growth are happening on local farms against the backdrop of massive shutdown and uncertainty due to the coronavirus pandemic.

• Community Solutions conference— Hope in regenerative practices

  By Carol SimmonsOctober 31, 2019

  

  But messages of efficacy and hope, which can get lost in crisis turmoil, are at the heart of a three-day national conference Nov. 1–3 in Yellow Springs.
  “Pathways to Regeneration: Soil, Food, and Plant Medicine,” presented by the locally based Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions, will offer alternative ways of thinking and acting.

• Scenes from the Greene County Fair — Rabbit costume contest

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 7, 2019

  

  Last Wednesday during the Greene County Fair was the 4-H-sponsored rabbit costume contest — in which youngsters and their pet rabbits dress in tandem, themed costumes.

• 20th anniversary of Whitehall Farm auction— ‘Saving Whitehall’ legacy

  By Megan BachmanJune 6, 2019

  

  Whitehall Farm was permanently preserved. A local land trust was put on the map. And a community victory still inspires.

• Seeds, not pesticides, fall from sky

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 5, 2013

  

  The small, low-flying aircraft that will soon buzz area farm fields are nothing to worry about, according to local farmer Jim Clem. At this time of year, the planes aren’t spraying pesticides but spreading seeds.

• VIDEO — Local farmer to seed from the sky

  By Megan BachmanAugust 30, 2013

  

  Local farmer Jim Clem is using aerial crop seeding to plant cover crops this fall. See a video featuring Clem on the new technique for increasing soil fertility.