Adventures in Dirt and Honey, 2022
Adventures in Dirt and Honey: Notes and Resources
“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.”
― Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
BGO Regenerative Ag Blog from 2019
“No one can do everything, but everyone can do something”
Max Lucado
Watch Gabe Brown’s TEDx Talk “Regeneration of Our Lands: A Producer's Perspective” and read his book, Dirt to Soil
Watch “Unbroken Ground” a Patagonia Film on YouTube, other ones to watch, “Gather,” “Biggest Little Farm,” and “Kiss the Ground,” “Ants and the Grasshopper.”
Read The Unsettling of America, Think Little, and Gift of the Good Land by Wendell Berry, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, For the Love of Soil by Nicole Masters.
Follow along with my progress on Instagram #regenerativebeepasture #beefriendlyvineyards #ODOTpollinators & my blog @ beegirl.org/blog and donate to support our work
Drive the market!! Support farmers who are using regenerative methods (with time, your dollar, your vote) and eat locally and seasonally.
Publications and Books Mentioned
Varroa destructor feeds primarily on honey bee fat body tissue and not hemolymph, Dr. Samuel Ramsey
Papers on Pollen Diversity and Bees by Dr. Marla Spivak
The Journey: Stories of Three Oklahoma Farmers Transitioning to Regen Ag
Loneliness: A New Epidemic in the USA
National Institute of Mental Health
‘Something’s not right in southern Oregon’: alarm at rise of illegal pot farms
Cornstalks Everywhere But Nothing Else, Not Even A Bee
Soil Health and Nutrient Density: Beyond Organic vs. Conventional Farming
Soil health and nutrient density: preliminary comparison of regenerative and conventional farming
Regenerative Almond Production Systems Improve Soil Health, Biodiversity, and Profit
Regenerative Ag Resources & Courses
CSU, Chico Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems
Farmers, Ranchers, and Researchers to Learn From
A Passion for the Way Nature Works: Guest BGO Blog from Emily Fulstone
White Oak Pastures, Will Harris
Jefferson Center Center for Holistic Management, Spencer Smith
Fulstone Ranch, Emily Fulstone
Karen Washington, Rise & Root Farm
Tools for Regenerative Ag