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Farmers Go Wild

ByAbby Quillen

My article “Farmers Go Wild” about conservation-based agriculture is in the Winter 2012 issue of YES! Magazine. Farmers Go Wild By Abby Quillen “Frogs are an indicator species,” Jack Gray explains, leaning over a small, muddy pond to look for tadpoles. Here on the 170-acre Winter Green Farm, 20 miles west of Eugene, Ore., Gray…

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Wildlife-Friendly Food

ByAbby Quillen

“Eating is an agricultural act.” – Wendell Berry As you fly over the Midwest, you can look down on the seemingly endless patchwork of plots that make up much of our country. From the air, it’s striking how organized, clean, and antiseptic the nation’s farms look – almost more like factories than farmlands. Humans have…