Modern Stewardship
A Blog from Studio Hill
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Of Hogs and Hugels: Creating a Perennial Food Forest
Read More…: Of Hogs and Hugels: Creating a Perennial Food ForestAs regenerative farmers, our top priority is to sequester carbon into the soil. There are many methods to do this—and the most effective method for a piece of land depends upon the makeup of the land being regenerated. Since our farm is mostly pasture, we use sheep and poultry to holistically manage the land’s water,…
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2017’s Vermont Regenerative Soils Program
Read More…: 2017’s Vermont Regenerative Soils ProgramI’m excited to tell you that, earlier this month, Senator Campion introduced a revised and updated version of our regenerative soils bill to the Vermont legislature. The bill is S.43: An act relating to establishing a regenerative soils program. (Full text here.) It is currently with the Senate Commitee on Natural Resources and Energy, and…
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Personal Thoughts on the Upcoming Vermont Regenerative Soils Program Legislation
Read More…: Personal Thoughts on the Upcoming Vermont Regenerative Soils Program LegislationToday, Senator Brian Campion will introduce to the Vermont Legislature our second attempt at a bill that, if passed, would incentive the responsible stewardship of our state’s ecosystems through the regeneration of our state’s soils. I’m immensely proud of this bill and will publish a post tomorrow with the nitty-gritty details and text. For now,…
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The Regeneration at Studio Hill: A Slideshow
Read More…: The Regeneration at Studio Hill: A SlideshowI had the pleasure of presenting the story of our farm—from it’s roots as a dairy in the ’30s right up to it’s current iteration as a regenerative farm—at this year’s Vermont Energy & Climate Action Network (VECAN) Conference at the beautiful Lake Morey Resort in Fairlee, Vermont. I was joined in our workshop by…
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Jesse Discusses Regenerative Agriculture in this Upstream Podcast
Read More…: Jesse Discusses Regenerative Agriculture in this Upstream PodcastThis spring, Mark Phillips, on a tour of regenerative projects in the northeast, was kind enough to stay in our area for a night and spend the day walking around our farm. In the afternoon after our tour, I had the honor of sitting down with Mark in the studio on top of Studio Hill and talking about…
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Our Public Comment on Vermont’s Required Agricultural Practices
Read More…: Our Public Comment on Vermont’s Required Agricultural PracticesWe submitted the following letter to the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food, and Markets on the last day that they were accepting public comment on the Required Agricultural Practices—or RAPs. Now that the rule has been formally submitted by the Agency, we thought we’d publish our final comments. See the bottom of this post for an…
