The Dust Bowl was one of the worst ecological disasters in recorded history--and the impetus for soil conservation I actually agree with...

Providence Canyon, Georgia, was the soil erosion horror story of the 1930s. Now it's a state park. Natural erosion by wind and water...

I'll be presenting on "Can Organic Feed the World?" at both the NOFA-NJ and OEFFA winter conferences Now that the holidays are over, tis...

The original headquarters of CAST was in Agronomy Hall at Iowa State University It’s the first week of November, and I’m on the road...

The Pfeiffer papers are in the basement of this building at Fellowship Community My final stop on my June research trip is in New York,...

The July 1940 issue of You Can't Eat That contains the first article that J.I. Rodale reprinted about organic farming “But now you’re...

It’s 6:30 a.m., the sun is shining, and it’s milking time in the Camphill Village Kimberton Hills dairy barn. I walk over from Sherry’s...

What better time than Thanksgiving Day to look back with gratitude on all the amazing experiences I’ve had this year? I know, it might...

Up through the early 1950s, practically every Indian agricultural writer promoted composting according to Howard’s Indore Method as the...

Sir Albert Howard’s Indore Method of composting eventually founded the organic farming movement in the English-speaking world. There’s...

One of the most famous experiments comparing chemical fertilizers and manure is the long-term study at the Rothamsted Experiment Station...

Most people agree that organic farming started in India. That’s where Sir Albert Howard, often referred to as the “father of organic...

One of the things that intrigues me most about the anti-organic rhetoric used by scientists is how unscientific and emotional it usually ...

A little-known fact about the rise of chemical-intensive agriculture in the United States is that it was motivated by doomsday fears....

While many people went back to the land because of an impending societal crisis, for others the crisis was personal. Such was the case...

In the twentieth century, each major wave of the back-to-the-land movement has been triggered by some kind of crisis. In 1939, that...

I find connections to organic farming in the most unexpected places. This time, it was in a random book I just picked up from the library...

After completing my master’s degree at UW-Madison and moving home, I spent over a year trying to understand why highlighting a connection...

There’s a big difference between graduate and undergraduate college classes. In most undergraduate classes, you sit and listen to a...

To fund my second year in graduate school at UW-Madison, I applied for several different teaching assistantships. One was to teach...