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Appalachian Woodlands Forest Farming Grant
A new approach to cultivating and growing ginseng could expand opportunities for farmers and landowners while discouraging poachers. The goal is to cultivate and grow new plants in Appalachian forest. Doing so can create additional value—Wild American Ginseng being a valuable botanical and an endangered plant. It makes sense to take advantage of Appalachian agriculture…
Birds on the Cumberland Plateau
While it’s challenging to be “trapped” quarantining, it’s also a blessing. We’ve been able to spend time hiking and bird watching on the Cumberland Plateau. As Cumberland bird observers, we have noticed that there are so many birds on the farm. With that knowledge, we have been diligently working to create habitat for native and…
South Florida Everglades
This country has so many beautiful places such as South Florida’s Everglades. Such places should be respected and protected and enjoyed. Each beautiful place has its own unique place in ecology and each needs its own “friends.” The thing is that government can’t do everything. We must all do our part. That means private landowners…
Enhancing the Environment Can Lead To a Stable Economy
We love our farm and work hard to find ways to steward the natural resources there while ensuring we’re a profitable operation. Working with environmentalists, we’ve developed a process to burn fields then graze our cattle there. We’re finding native grasses returning. From there, habitat and food for native wildlife will return, especially the birds….
Protecting and Restoring
At Coal Creek Farm we are committed to generating profits while protecting and restoring environmental resources. We’ve had to make hard choices when invasive insects attack our native trees. We’ve been working with the Southeastern Grasslands Initiative to inventory the natural resources and restore lands that had been clear cut for years. We’ve deployed a…
River Management
You know how I love paddling with my family, but in the last few years I’ve come to appreciate just how hard it is to protect these precious places. At the end of the Ken Burns series on the national parks, the point was made that every generation will have to choose to protect the…