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Category: Farming & Philosophy
Intentional Farming with Conservation Grains
Driving north from Bozeman to Choteau, the easternmost stretches of Montana’s Rockies casually release from their bouldered inclines and winding passes into a gentler landscape. From Helena onward for 100 miles, vast blankets of cropland and pastures softly billow and ease into the coulees and creeks leisurely shaping the north country. The journey is a surrender to subtler views, a submission to not getting anywhere anytime soon. Choteau itself is bound in all directions by this same expanse. But just miles east of town, amid swathes of predominantly conventionally farmed land, sits a small acreage revered and maintained a bit differently by its owners.
The N Fix
https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2022/12/20/deadly-dirty-indispensable-the-nitrogen-industry-has-changed-the-world?utm_content=article-link-5&etear=nl_today_5&utm_campaign=r.the-economist-today&utm_medium=email.internal-newsletter.np&utm_source=salesforce-marketing-cloud&utm_term=12/23/2022&utm_id=1430163
The Sourdough Microbiome
https://asm.org/Articles/2020/June/The-Sourdough-Microbiome
Feeding a Smaller Sourdough Starter
Note: use 25/75 white flour and Big Sky Rye.
A Regenerative Montana Meat Company
… “I think we really get wrapped around the wrong axles in the whole regenerative agriculture movement. It’s not just about better practices in a vacuum, it’s about a food system built to sustain those practices.” https://medium.com/@danmiller_steward/old-salt-c903035ed90f
Recent Developments in Wheat Breeding | AgWeb
https://www.agweb.com/opinion/recent-developments-wheat-breeding
Flour Storage Container
OXO Good Grips POP Container, Food Storage, 4 Qt https://a.co/d/5vfFdjY
Rgenerative Ag in Canada with General Mills
https://www.feedandgrain.com/news/general-mills-invests-2-3m-in-regenerative-agriculture
Watch “First Day of Swathing Wheat 2022! Montana Harvest” on YouTube
First Day of Swathing Wheat 2022! Montana Harvest: https://youtu.be/NqJPE7EO3aA