LSP staffer Elizabeth Makarewicz talks to participants in the 2019 Queer Farmer Convergence at Humble Hands Harvest in Iowa about connecting queerness, farming, and community.

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How farmers Dawn and Grant Breitkreutz are building soil carbon and bolstering financial resiliency.

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Farm advocates provide tips on dealing with the ag crisis, and how we can fight for a brighter future.

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How the Tallgrass Prairie Center in Iowa is introducing a little wildness into a domesticated landscape.

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How one land grant experiment station is helping farmers integrate livestock and crops in a way that creates resilient soils...and a resilient food system.

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Excessive erosion on her farm prompted Jeannie Hill to have a hard conversation with her renter. But first, she did some homework.

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Farmer and caver Martin Larsen describes the connections between land use on the surface and water quality problems he sees underground.

For more on ways to build soil health profitably, see LSP's Soil Builders web page.

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Robin Moore talks about how LSP is using soil health to forge stewardship partnerships between non-operating landowners and the farmers who rent from them.

For more resources on how to develop farmland leases that reflect your stewardship values, click here.

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A farmer and a researcher discuss the potential agronomic, economic, and ecological benefits of a commercially-viable perennial grain.

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During a tallgrass prairie "BioBlitz," farmers, a wildlife expert, and an LSP organizer discuss how livestock can benefit natural habitat and the community at large.

For more on the BioBlitz events that are held periodically in western Minnesota, click here.

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