The Independent Farmstead photographs interplanting and multisowing

interplanting and multisowing

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The Independent Farmstead photographs interplanting and multisowingWhen Shawn and Beth Dougherty purchased the land they would come to name the Sows Ear, the state of Ohio designated it not suitable for agriculture. Today, some 20 years later, their family raises and grows 90 percent of their own food. Such self sufficiency is largely the result of basing their farming practices around intensive pasture management. Pioneered by such luminaries as Allan Savory, Greg Judy, and Joel Salatin, the tenets of holistic