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bluedirtfarm-blog · 9 years ago

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First Blog Post

Hi! Thanks for reading or at least starting to read my very first blog posting for Blue Dirt Farm!

As I am writing this I am en route to the Permaculture Voices conference. Not only am I extremely excited to meet people who are doing amazing things in the regenerative agriculture word, whose books I've read even(!), but I'm also extremely excited about the new clarity I've recently found as to what I'm really working towards and my farms role in this.

Blue Dirt Farm is located in Blue Earth, Minnesota and is surrounded by literally millions of acres used mostly for mono crop corn and soybeans. We use a variety of methods to help shield our small diversified farm from the harmful effects of ag-land runoff and pesticide drift. But even if we could completely isolate ourselves from all of this unwelcome material and build the most vibrantly functional model farm in the world I feel that it would do little to influence what happens on the surrounding landscape.

This is why now, in addition to growing and optimizing our own little farm, I'm actively working towards implementing regenerative practices not only on the farm land my family owns but also on the land of anyone else who's willing to invest a little bit of up front cost in order to build soil health and resilience in their own operation.

Practices like no-till farming, inter-seeding diverse cover crop mixes, and integrating livestock don't go as far as some of the deeper, more intensive approaches we use at Blue Dirt Farm, but they're a big step in the right direction! I'm hoping this will soon become known as “gateway farming”!

If you're one of the probably five or less people who are reading this I sincerely thank you and hope you'll make an effort to check us out from time to time.

I'll be sure to share some of the amazing stuf I know I'll learn at Permaculture Voices! Look for video and audio formats in this blog in the future too!

#pv3

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