By Mike Jones, Farmer/Owner of Tierra Verde Farms Healthy Eggs: What We Knew in 1932 In the 1930s, scientists and food producers were creating the first plans to take poultry off family farms and raise them in confinement. To enact their plans, they needed to...
By Mike Jones, Farmer/Owner of Tierra Verde Farms When you buy eggs and meat, you probably look for terms like cage-free, free-range, or pasture-raised. There are critical differences between these terms, and why it matters. The last time you visited the grocery...
By Patricia Fox Who doesn’t love the gentle exfoliating powers of a loofah bath sponge? Loofah is a naturally sourced, eco-friendly, renewable scrubber that is also compostable! But what is a loofah, anyway? I admit, I have contemplated the strange structure of my...
Photo: New Farmer Academy Intern Maddie Baker helping with a farm project at Oxbow Orchard If there’s any industry under the scrupulous watch of sustainability activists, it’s the farming industry. Not only is the industry an essential component of our daily lives,...
As I write this blog post, I happen to be in Avon, Colorado, celebrating the July 4th holiday. I have already visited two local farmers markets…one in Minturn, Colorado and the other in Edwards, Colorado. This area has multiple farmers markets each week and it is one...
