On Today’s Podcast Episode Harold Has A Conversation With Helen Atthowe about Systems Thinking To Balance Profitable Yields With Minimum Soil Disturbance, Soil-Building For Microbial Abundance and Diversity, and Habitat Building For Natural Enemies and Enhanced Biological Control.
The Modern Homesteading Podcast, Episode 208 – June 19, 2023
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Helen has worked for 35 years to connect farming, food systems, land stewardship, and conservation. She currently farms and does soil- and natural enemies’ habitat- building research on her new 5-acre farm in Western Montana. Helen and her late husband farmed a 211 acre organic farm in Eastern Oregon doing mainly orchard and vegetable production, created educational videos, and did video presentations about their ecological farming methods.
Helen has an M.S. in Horticulture from Rutgers University and has worked in education and research at Rutgers, the University of Arkansas, and Montana and Oregon State Universities. She was a Horticulture Extension Agent in Montana for 17 and also owned/operated a 30 acre certified organic vegetable/fruit farm in Montana.
She co-owned with her late husband a 26 acre certified organic orchard in California. Helen was a board member for the Organic Farming Research Foundation 2000-2005 and advisor for Wild Farm Alliance in 2018 & 2019. She is also the author of “The Ecological Farm: A Minimalist No-Till, No-Spray, Selective-Weeding, Grow-Your-Own-Fertilizer System for Organic Agriculture”.
Links
Helen’s Book
- The Ecological Farm: A Minimalist No-Till, No-Spray, Selective-Weeding, Grow-Your-Own-Fertilizer System for Organic Agriculture – Get it at Amazon or Chelsea Green Publishing
Course
- The Garden Master Course Taught By Helen – https://permies.com/wiki/209356f46/Garden-Master-HD-Streaming-Instant
YouTube Channel
Other Links About Things Mentioned
- My Review of the Garden Master Course
- Ecofarm 2023 no-till panel: https://community.eco-farm.org/posts/32239405
- The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming by Masanobu Fukuoka – https://amzn.to/43ST6S8
- Hoss Single Wheel Hoe – https://amzn.to/46dYWig
Listen On YouTube
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