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Here's a New Year's Resolution that You'll Want to Keep

January 09, 2017 Tivoli Gough, NRCS Wisconsin

The New Year is here and most of us are making resolutions about how to improve our lives in 2017. Well, we at the Natural Resources Conservation Service believe that learning about farming and conserving natural resources should be at the top of everyone’s list of resolutions. How can you make that...

Conservation

Connecting Health, Faith and Agriculture: How One Community is Using Agriculture to Support Community Health

January 04, 2017 USDA Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships

In the rural community of Conetoe, North Carolina, residents are taking aim at the lack of access to healthy and nutritious food and its youth are leading the charge. In the predominately African American town, more than 60 youth participants of Conetoe Family Life Center (CFLC) have a direct role...

Initiatives Food and Nutrition

Resolve to Build Healthy Soils on Rented Land

January 03, 2017 Melissa Erdman, NRCS District Conservationist

Do you rent out your land for agriculture? If you do, don’t forget about your farm when you’re making your New Year’s resolutions. Here are five questions from USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) that you need to ask the folks who rent your land: Do you build organic matter in the...

Conservation

Bringing Back Diversity in Eastern Forests for Landowners, Wildlife

December 29, 2016 Justin Fritscher, Natural Resources Conservation Service

What do biologists look for in a healthy forest? A diversity in the ages and composition of trees and occasional breaks in canopy to allow sunlight to reach understory plants. Healthy forests, just like healthy human populations, are sustained by a diversity of ages. Each group has a role to play in...

Conservation

USDA Reaches Out to Growing Asian American and Pacific Islander Population

December 22, 2016 Janet Nuzum, USDA Senior Advisor and Director of Asian American and Pacific Islander Affairs, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration

Did you know that Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) make up the fastest growing population group in the United States? Increasing over four times as rapidly as the overall U.S. population, AAPIs are projected to more than double by 2060, from 20 million today to 50 million. A recent...

Trade

Climate Smart Conservation Partnership Serves Two Scoops of On-Farm Solutions

December 21, 2016 Kari Cohen, Natural Resources Conservation Service

Eating a pint of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream may make you feel guilty about your waistline, but thanks to a new partnership between the ice cream company and USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), you may be able to feel less guilty about contributing to climate change. The partnership is...

Conservation

Seeing is Believing: Soil Health Practices and No-Till Farming Transform Landscapes and Produce Nutritious Food

December 19, 2016 Garrett Duyck, NRCS Oregon and Diane Petit, NRCS Massachusetts

This month, we’re highlighting 12 important gifts given to us when we conserve natural resources: soil, food, plants, wildlife, people, health, protection, recreation, air, water, technology and the future. NRCS’ mission is to conserve the full range of natural resources, but soil health is our...

Conservation

12 Gifts of Conservation

December 14, 2016 Spencer Miller, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service

Holidays are a time to enjoy the warm comforts of home and family. A time to reflect and give thanks for life’s blessings. This month, we’re going to highlight important gifts given to us when we conserve natural resources: soil, food, plants, wildlife, people, health, protection, recreation, air...

Conservation

World Soil Day - A Time to Celebrate the Foundation of Agriculture

December 05, 2016 Amy Overstreet, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Vermont

Last year during the International Year of Soils (IYS), I had the incredible opportunity to help the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) spread the word about the many life-giving functions of soil. As part of this effort, I traveled to New York City to attend the kickoff ceremony for...

Conservation

Helping Farmers Adapt to Extreme Weather and a Changing Climate

November 28, 2016 Dan Dostie, NRCS Project Liaison, USDA Northeast Climate Hub

Changes in climate and more extreme weather are already increasing challenges for agriculture and natural resource managers nationally and globally. Many of these challenges are expected to continue into the future. A new USDA report Adaptation Resources for Agriculture: Responding to Climate...

Climate
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