Heinrich To Tour Chispas Farm, Highlight Effort To Empower Farmers, Reach Net-Zero Emissions In Agriculture By 2040
U.S. SENATE News:
ALBUQUERQUE U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will tour Chispas Farm in Albuquerque’s South Valley Friday, and discuss investing in agriculture as a climate solution.
Heinrich will be joined by Casey Holland who runs Chispas Farm, a four-acre community-focused farm on occupied Tiwa land, as well as other farmers and stakeholders in the area.
Heinrich recently introduced the Agriculture Resilience Act, sweeping bicameral legislation that empowers farmers with the tools and resources needed to improve soil health, sequester carbon, reduce emissions, enhance their resilience, and tap into new market opportunities.
Why “Infrastructure” Includes the Ground Beneath Our Feet
Tim Youngquist of Iowa State University (left) with Larry and Margaret Stone at their prairie strips near Traer, Iowa. This is a first year of growth after frost seeding in the winter of 2015. Prairie plants are coming but have been mowed to keep weeds down. Credit: NRCS/SWCS photo by Lynn Betts
Why “Infrastructure” Includes the Ground Beneath Our Feet
Karen Perry Stillerman, senior analyst, Food and Environment | May 13, 2021, 2:47 pm EDT This post is a part of a series on
Long a joke in federal policy circles, Infrastructure Week is
actually upon us. Since President Biden revealed his infrastructure plan (aka the American Jobs Plan) earlier this spring, we’ve heard a lot of opinions about what is, and isn’t, infrastructure. Now I’ll add my hot take: Soil is infrastructure.