Herb seed starters and tomato plants grown from the seeds of store-bought tomatoes currently take up space in Jada Fife `24’s apartment. Meanwhile, a summer garden on her farm, significantly damaged by tornadoes two weeks ago, holds onions, carrots, cabbage, kale, radishes, cauliflower, broccoli and winter squashes. Fife was born and raised in Washington, D.C.,.
The Sustainable Iowa Land Trust recently planted 5,800 shrubs and trees along Catfish Creek as its first working buffer — meant to improve water quality, increase flood resilience and produce
The Sustainable Iowa Land Trust visited Dubuque County partners and interested landowners Thursday night, at a celebration of nearly a year of work through a county grant which has succeeded
However a Green New Deal frames guidance on state and local policy, farmland protection must be central foundational to its goals and funding priorities.