Healthy Soil, Healthy People You have to slip into four-wheel-drive to negotiate the descent from the mesa top to Ashokola Gardens and Peacefield, the remote garden, homestead, and sustainable-living center where Kim Howell-Costion lives with her husband, Joseph Costion, in the high piٌon-juniper country east of Snowflake, Arizona. It’s worth every bump to get a […]
Stone Free Farm
In the Shadow of the Mountains In winter, farmers sink into worn couches, sip tea, and tell stories about summers past. After a decade of farming the high desert outside of Cortez, Colorado, Chuck Barry and Rosie Carter have stories. This winter the story begins with water: for the first time in many years, their […]
Going Quiet
By Charlie Laurel —- Jack Ehrhardt and his contracting company, ACE Builders, built the first ‘Earthship’ in Arizona for a client in Dewey in the early 1990s. An Earthship is a self-sustaining, passive solar home made from used tires packed with dirt, cans, bottles, and other discards. The home was designed by architect Michael Reynolds […]
Finken Farm
Addressing the Problems Using a “typical” dryland rotation, the Finkens used to raise wheat and small grains on two-thirds of their acreage, idling the remainder in fallow until the next growing season. The bare fallow ground was susceptible to the harsh climatic conditions of the Dakotas. “It made a big impact on me as a […]
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