Category: Regenerative Agriculture

Get the dirt on the benefits of healthy soil

by mcdwater1, posted in Agriculture, Best management Practices, Climate, Conservation, Contaminants, Floodplains, Great Miami River, Land use planning, Mad River, Regenerative Agriculture, Stillwater River

By Sarah Hippensteel Hall, Ph.D., manager of watershed partnerships Soil. It’s under your feet. It’s in your garden. It’s on the farms that grow your food. And yet you probably don’t give it much of a thought. But maybe you should. Protecting soil is better for everyone. Our community gets cleaner rivers, cleaner air, and … Continue reading Get the dirt on the benefits of healthy soil

We need to talk about the birds and the bees

by mcdwater1, posted in Agriculture, Aquifer, Best management Practices, Climate, Conservation, Contaminants, Floodplains, Green development, Nutrients, Open space, Regenerative Agriculture

By Sarah Hippensteel Hall, Ph.D., manager of watershed partnerships For many of us, enjoying prairies has been limited to what we saw on (or see in reruns of) TV shows like “Little House on the Prairie.” That’s because by the middle of the 20th century, nearly all of the North American prairie grasslands had been destroyed … Continue reading We need to talk about the birds and the bees