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June 12th, 2011 Getting started farming is extremely difficult. Before anything else, you need a place to farm and, if you don’t have land in the family, that means a down payment and mortgage. Acreage is expensive close to cities so often farms end up several miles out of town. Next an investment in infrastructure is required, including irrigation and fencing. In Durango, with an average of only 90 frost-free days, hoop-houses and greenhouses are also needed to extend the growing season. In
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May 26th, 2011 Linda Illsley, local chef and owner of Cocina Linda, once asked me why I farm. I couldn’t come up with an immediate answer. There are a million ethical reasons to be a small-time, diverse farmer. The veggies at the grocery store are laden with systemic pesticides, fungicides, antibiotics, herbicides and fertilizers, the land they are grown on is eroded, low in fertility and biodiversity, the watershed is contaminated with nitrogen run-off and pesticides, the farm workers may not be fairly
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June 7th, 2009 As a government employee for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, I often find myself having to justify my job. Since the mid‐1940′s and the start of the green revolution, many believe that there has been no need for agricultural research or education. Advances in breeding, mechanization, fertilization, and pest control have brought food surpluses and kept prices low in the grocery stores for the last sixty years.
Lately, however, additional costs associated with the way we farm have come to
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Contact AHF (970) 317-0309
linley@adobehousefarm.com
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