It’s Heeeere! The summer issue of Modern Farmer magazine has hit the stands! You’ll recognize it by the handsome duck gracing our cover. So hitch up your tractor (or hop in the car, if that’s easier) and rush out to pick up an issue and read all about ducks, blackberries, phosphorus fertilizer problems, 10 farmers who are making the dream work and much, much more.
Alicia Adams’ luxurious alpaca wool scarves, throws, and baby booties retail at tony Manhattan stores like Barneys New York. The backstory is far less glamorous. In 2006, when the designer and her husband, Daniel, left Munich for the promise of a simpler yet still sophisticated life in New York’s Hudson Valley, they settled on a rundown 1790 homestead with 80 non-manicured acres. “We’re hands-on people,” she says. “We clear
This a version of this article and video were produced by and originally appeared on Terasu. The greatest cruelty is to forget everything in this world is connected. Brandon D’Imperio of Circle Rock Ranch, in Vashon Island, Washington, has not forgotten. He regards the pigs who produce his farm’s cured meats, sausage, and bacon with a profound reverence, giving thanks for every moment that they have lived. Without rain, corn can’t rise from t
However, some innovative aquaculturists – Will Allen of Milwaukee is perhaps the most famous of them – have devised sustainable and productive “closed loop” aquaculture systems: the poopy fish water is used as fertilizer for plants, which in turn filter the water and serve as a food source for the fish. That’s the sort of aquaculture system I had in mind when I bought a small homestead in Georgia years ago. My plan was to raise Blue Ni