The US Department of Agriculture’s marquee conservation program is about to get significantly bigger. The agency this week unveiled plans to boost funding for the Conservation Reserve Program by $300 million a year—good for an 18-percent increase—with the goal of adding another four million acres to the nearly 21 million that are already enrolled. The […]

A bipartisan group of senators this week reintroduced a bill called the Growing Climate Solutions Act, which is designed to get farmers into the carbon market. This would be the bill that lays the groundwork for a carbon offset market, and one that would allow farmers to get into the business. It’s supported by President […]

Last Earth Day, about a month into lockdown, I got a call I’d been dreading for years. My beloved grandmother had died at age 84. I was devastated. Mom-Mom, as we called her, was our family’s eccentric matriarch. Surely, she loved all her grandchildren equally, but I always felt a special connection to her. Mom-Mom […]