Buffalo clover, unlike other legumes, doesn’t need bacteria to fix nitrogen, as it historically thrived with buffalo herds that provided this benefit naturally. Today, we replicate this process at Mt. Folly Farm by rotating cattle, promoting soil health, and helping revive the endangered plant.
Dear Friends, There is a connection between the soil microbiome and our microbiome. As we focus on health, we’ve come across these new findings. For organic farmers who use nature rather than pesticides and herbicides to grow plants, including organic hemp for CBD, we are heartened to see this research going mainstream. The human microbiome consists…
Buffalo clover, unlike other legumes, doesn’t need bacteria to fix nitrogen, as it historically thrived with buffalo herds that provided this benefit naturally. Today, we replicate this process at Mt. Folly Farm by rotating cattle, promoting soil health, and helping revive the endangered plant.
If our civilization can’t stop the pumps (construction, transportation, heating and cooling), can we buy some time by putting atmospheric carbon back in trees, plants and soils, where it belongs? Is it possible for agriculture to become a solution rather than a cause of climate change?
Whiskey Rye from Canada? NO! We are growing it on land once owned by Daniel Boone! Trailblazer that he was, Daniel Boone chose 400 acres around present-day Schollsville for his settlement and preemption, growing a corn crop there in 1775 and 1776.* More than 2 centuries later, we are partnering with American Farmland Trust to…
Dear Friends, I don’t drink, so why did I found a whiskey company, Regeneration Distillery? Besides being a little nuts, which I can’t help, there are two reasons, really. Let’s start with the first one, which is from the farm point of view: To improve soil health, which means optimizing the soil and microbiome…
November – The month started out with rain, which came to a sliding stop, and as I write this (December 3) it is pretty droughty and unseasonably warm. We’ve only had a trace of moisture in the last 30 days. This has stunted the cover crops, but allowed us to finish harvest in good time.…
Organic Farming and the USDA’s organic certification program, despite its flaws, remains the gold standard for chemical-free food production. Since 2014, Mt. Folly Farm has proudly maintained this certification. Part of the process involves an annual inspection and testing of organic crops, like the farm’s corn. The latest test results, received in December, showed non-detectable…
We finally have some dry weather, and harvest is on. We’ve got our Cobbler variety of CBD in the barn, and finished our organic corn today. Our organic yellow corn goes in the grain bin, for sale in 2019. Our organic Bloody Butcher is cleaned and sacked, ready for the granary, which we’ll fire up…
