The 2nd Annual Southern Illinois Soil Health Symposium, hosted by Glaciers End, will be geared towards educating and motivating people to learn about and take action around soil and water health and the practices that forward these causes. Experts will speak on conservation practices for soil health in agriculture. Come gather and share with other individuals interested in promoting and building soil health in Illinois!<br/><br/>Our 1st speaker will be Logan Karcher, owner of Burnt Hill Cattle Company in Dahlgren & the Southern Coordinator for the Illinois Grazing Coalition. Logan will be discussing Regenerative Livestock Grazing and the practices that he is implementing on his farm. <br/><br/>Our featured speaker will be Adam Dahmer, of Advance Cover Crops & Co-Owner of The Patch in Marion. Adam spoke at our event last year on Cover Crops 101 & due to the overwhelming interest and response, we have invited him back to go further into dep
It appeared as though we were going to have a repeat of our luck with weather for our Illinois Grazing Lands Coalition Pasture Walk scheduled here at River Oak. We always seem to bring rain when we schedule.
The months seem to pass so quickly, especially when I realize that it’s the first Friday and this writing is due again. I sure hope that what I write is worthwhile to you, the reader. In today’s information overload, everything is deemed to be “content.”
I am a firm believer in lifelong learning. It seems as though that takes a lot of time these days, as I sometimes struggle with the technology advances and everything being “apps.”