Kris Swartz, past president of the Ohio Federation of Soil & Water Conservation Districts, shared how important the roughly $19.5 billion in Inflation Reduction Act funds allocated to USDA climate smart agriculture and conservation programs are to farmers. This article is part of an ongoing series on climate-smart funding, organized by the Climate Action Campaign and Solutions from the Land.
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By Donee Boykin and Chad Fisher We come from very different places — a grazing farm in northwest Missouri (Chad) and an urban farm in Trotwood, Ohio (Donee) — but we share the same conviction: You must hold a certain love for nature and the earth to want to be a farmer. On our farms, we are...
By Nancy Szikszay, Szikszay Family Farms based in Otisville, Michigan I was raised in downtown Flint, Michigan. Before meeting my husband, Bill, I never really thought about farming and all that it entails. When we met, Bill’s family had recently gotten out of dairy to concentrate on...
By Annie Link, SwissLane Farms, Alto, Michigan For more than a century, my family has farmed some of the same land in Michigan with the understanding that our farm is more than a business. It’s a living ecosystem that supports our entire community. Conservation isn’t just a buzzword for us. It’s a...
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