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Photo provided by the Monenken Farm Building soil health through a systems approach is the focus of the Menoken Farm near Bismarck, North Dakota. Owned and operated by the Burleigh County Soil Conservation District (BCSCD) as a demonstration site since 2009, the 150-acre farm shows visitors what’s possible when soil is managed for the end aim of rejuvenating soil function. The farm’s goals go far beyond “conserving degraded soil,” says Jay Fuhrer, an internationally recognized soil health specialist now retired from the Natural Resources Conservation Service while retaining his affiliation with the Menoken Farm. “When you focus on rejuvenating soil by putting carbon back, the work comes with some excitement,” he says. “Visitors to the farm see what we’re doing, and they get excited. They want to go home, take a degraded field, and build health back into the soil on their own farm.”
Event will cover annual cover crops, grazing perennials and planting cash crops into green covers
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LEWISTON Soil health experts Jay Fuhrer and Jon Stika will present on annual cover crops, grazing perennials and planting cash crops into green covers during a Land Stewardship Project (LSP) online workshop from 1 to 4 p.m. Feb. 16.
The event is free, but registration is required at http://bit.ly/3p6llHr. All Zoom experience levels are welcome and guidance to using the platform will be given in the first 10 minutes of the program; participants may video connect from laptops or telephones, or simply call into the event.