The Constraints and Opportunities of Millennial Farming by Margaret Storrs

1. FALL CREEK FARM and MATTHEW STORRS

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Hillsboro, Ohio

2. Getting Started: Questions and Points of Focus. . .

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1.  Why doesn't everyone use cover crops? 
2.  What challenges do farmers face today?
3.  Coping with the direction of farming. .  
4.  What is a "good farmer"?
5.  What is a "bad farmer"?  
6. Dirty Words and Contentious Ideas

3. Matthew Storrs--Owner of JMStorrs Farm and Manager of Fall Creek Farm in Hillsboro, Ohio

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4. What does "farming" mean to you?

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6. Tell us your thoughts on cover crops?

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9. Where do you see farming heading?

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11. What threats do you see the industry facing?

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15. In Conclusion. . .What is your definition of a "good farmer"?

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16. In Conclusion cont.--What is your definition of a "bad farmer"?

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12. "DIRTY" WORDS AND CONTENTIOUS IDEAS

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GMOs. . .
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10. Preserving Wildness--Wendell Berry

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"To be divided against nature, against wildness, then, is a human disaster because it is to be divided against ourselves. It confines our identity as creatures entirely within the bounds of our own understanding, which is invariably a mistake because it is invariably reductive. It reduces our largeness, our mystery, to a petty and sickly comprehensibility."
(Berry, 1986, p. 520)

7. Cover Crop Charting

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17. "The Farmer" a short story by Margaret Storrs

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8. Preserving Wildness--Wendell Berry

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"The topsoil, to the extent that it is fertile, is wild; it is a dark wilderness, ultimately unknowable, teeming with wildlife. A forest or a crop, no matter how intentionally husbanded by human foresters or farmers, will be found to be healthy precisely to the extent that it is wild--able to collaborate with earth, air, light, and water in the way common to plants before humans walked the earth." (Berry, 1986, p. 519)

13. Dirty Words and Contentious Ideas cont. --GMOs--What do you think?

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14. Dirty Words and Contentious Ideas Cont.--You mentioned Henry David Thoreau...what do his ideas mean to you?

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Fall Creek Farm

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Fall Creek Farm

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Fall Creek Farm

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Fall Creek Farm

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Fall Creek Farm

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Fall Creek Farm

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Fall Creek Farm

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Fall Creek Farm

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Fall Creek Farm

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In Hillsboro...we share the road.

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19. WORKS CITED:

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Interview: Matthew Storrs

Berry, W. (1986). Preserving wildness: An essay. Cheyenne, Wyo.?: Wyoming Outdoor Council.
Images:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/310396599291151011/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/58828338862250239/

18. Reflection

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