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Cover Cropping's Many Benefits

"Cover Cropping's Many Benefits," Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland, The Dirt (blog), March 9, 2025. Cover Cropping’s Many Benefits — Skagitonians to Preserve FarmlandWinter cover crops just look good. “To me, it’s nice just driving through the valley and seeing green fields,” said Jason Vander Kooy,
Adam M. Sowards 09 Mar 2025
Supporting Agriculture

Supporting Agriculture

How the federal government seeded a network for farmers
Adam M. Sowards 12 Feb 2025
A Deeper Conservation Vision

A Deeper Conservation Vision

Aldo Leopold's "The Farmer as a Conservationist" (1939)
Adam M. Sowards 14 Aug 2024
A Revolution without a Plow

A Revolution without a Plow

Discovering Plowman's Folly (1943)
Adam M. Sowards 31 Jan 2024
Where Did that Label Come From?

Where Did that Label Come From?

Tracing a (brief) history of "organic"
Adam M. Sowards 22 Nov 2023

Drought persists, requires adjustments

"Drought Persists, Requires Adjustments and Acceptance," La Conner Weekly News (September 20, 2023). Third Place winner, "Environmental Story," Washington Newspaper Publishers Association
Adam M. Sowards 20 Sep 2023
Rexford Daubenmire and the Ecology of Place

Rexford Daubenmire and the Ecology of Place

"Rexford Daubenmire and the Ecology of Place: Applied Ecology in the Mid-Twentieth-Century American West," in New Perspectives on the History of Life Sciences and Agriculture, eds. Denise Phillips and Sharon Kingsland (New York: Springer, 2015): 297-322. Publisher's Site
Adam M. Sowards 10 Mar 2015

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