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A Letter from Laura: Nature can Solve it!

February 2, 2021

Dear Friends, January was farm meeting month. I’ve attended hours of Zoom meetings and virtual farmer meet-ups. (1) Now, I turn to summarizing the information for our farm team and our customers. The main theme of our discussions was how to use biology to solve our environmental and health problems. From the gut microbiome to [...]
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A Letter from Laura: We all need an inner mule

September 22, 2021

Dear Friends, At the fall equinox, farmers pause to reflect on the growing season,  with harvest upon us. Here at Mt. Folly, I’m dispensing with happy talk. From Covid to climate, the year has been rough, so rough I’ve had to summon my inner mule. Here is the back story, some of which you may know: [...]
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March Is Women’s History Month

March 2, 2022

Dear Friends,  March is women’s history month. As a woman, I’d rather an eon than a month, which we deserve. Still, I ask you to send me a vignette, long or short, about the women who’ve been role models, inspired you, accomplished the impossible, and have improved the well-being of humanity. I’ll get these notes [...]
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Celebrating Arbor Day 2022

April 27, 2022

Saplings and seedlings, sprigs, and sprouts oh my! Trees all around the world are starting their lives this very week. Humankind celebrates this holiday of the future of these trees as they sequester carbon, create unique micro-ecosystems for our forests and woodlots, provide shade to rotationally graze livestock and stand tall while fighting soil erosion [...]
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A Letter from Laura: Forestry, Trees and Biochar

May 26, 2022

Dear Friends, Last week we hosted a garden club here. We talked first at the Homestead Cabin, then toured on a tractor-pulled farm wagon. Necessarily, these tours are but a snapshot of what we do at Mt. Folly. One of the most innovative undertakings for the year (and for many years to come, I believe) [...]
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Laura's Homestead Alternatives log cabin.

A Letter from Laura: Drawdown!

July 7, 2022

Dear Friends, At Mt. Folly farm, we are doing big things, simply. We are part of the drawdown movement, which seeks to sequester carbon dioxide in plants, trees and soils. We have long been a part of the organic movement as well, for us meaning our products are raised in soils, part of the underground [...]
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USDA ‘Climate Smart Commodities’ Grant Recipient

February 7, 2023

Last summer, we applied for funding under the USDA and Natural Resource Conservation Service's 'Climate Smart Commodities' grant program. We proposed “Building whole-farm designs and market infrastructure to provide premiums for Climate Smart Farming among mid-sized agricultural enterprises in the Ohio River valley” (a mouthful I know). In December, USDA gave us a great Christmas [...]
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Is red meat good for the immune system?

February 9, 2023

Is red meat good for the immune system? There's a question that definitely was not “trending” five years ago, though a community of people have been saying this for decades. So why would beef be good for immunity? One reason is that it has Vitamin D. In lab-speak, “Red meat and meat products can contribute [...]
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State of Ecological Agriculture Winter ’23

March 1, 2023

Part 1: The Roots of Real Organic and why we must return to them Over the last several months I’ve been blessed to attend a fantastic trio of ecological farmer conferences– Acres, USA; The Organic Association of Kentucky; and the Ohio Ecological Food and Farming Association; and more recently also The Real Organic Project’s symposium […]

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Wild Greens Tincture: Eastern Miner’s Lettuce

April 18, 2023

Eastern Miner's Lettuce: 'America's gift to salad' & jewel of our Wild Greens Tincture As Hank Shaw from Hunt-Gather-Cook shares, “The plant got its name because the Gold Rush miners ate it to stave off scurvy, which is caused by a Vitamin C deficiency... Combine this with stinging nettles and you have everything you need [...]
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