LEARN MORE ABOUT CONSERVATION
Conservation is so much more than the Farm Bill. We have come to realize how inter-connected our resources are:
- soil health impacts crop inputs, which impacts pollinator food sources, which impact fruit and vegetable crops that we need to eat
- tillage practices impact soil loss, which contributes to nutrient loading and loss of storage capacity in the lake that we need as a drinking water source
- stream-side (riparian) forest cover slows runoff and intercepts rainfall, reducing velocity of stormwater that enters our stream systems, slowing bed degradation and bank erosion
- type of vegetation in field buffers impacts the species of insects that live there, which impacts the existence of wildlife such as quail and other birds.
Here are some resources to help tie it all together.