One Tennessee farm is bringing lamb into the mainstream. Farmers Elaine and Howard Dustin are animal people. That much is clear immediately as we meet them at their farm, Belfair Farms in Lawrenceburg, 90 minutes south of Nashville. Along with their 138 sheep, they have 10 dogs, 50 chickens, and eight horses. Having grown up…
Sustainable food garden program takes root at Interlochen. “It was the summer of 2016, and the Board of Trustees wanted us to do things more sustainably on campus. The initial idea was to put in a school garden, that summer,” Emily Umbarger tells me. “I said, ‘Let’s slow down. Let me give you a 12-month…
Composting at home reduces what you send to the landfill and fortifies your garden. It’s also easier than a lot of people think. In the end, it’s a simple formula: Composting = Carbon + Nitrogen + Oxygen + Water + Time +Carbon The carbon part of that equation comes from what composters tend to call…
There are really no two ways about it: if you like spinach, you’ll like lamb’s quarters. It would be difficult to walk around Cape Cod’s green spaces without finding large stands of this wild edible plant lining roadsides and trails among the dandelions and raspberry brambles. Prolific in much of the northeastern United States, lamb’s…
