Farming with the Wild

Foreword The Case for Farming with the Wild THE SKY ISLANDS --The Ranch of 20,000 Gabions (El Coronado Ranch, Southeastern Arizona) --Grassbanking in the Badlands (The Gray Ranch, Animas Valley, Southwestern New Mexico) --In Search of Ranching's Radical Center (Lake Valley ranch, Southwestern New Mexico) --Along the Pollinator Trail (Tubac Farm, Southeastern Arizona) --The Turner Biodiversity Legacy (Ladder and Armendaris Ranches, Southwestern New Mexico) THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY --The Revolution at the Hedgerow Farms (Hedgerow Farms, Winters, California) --Toward a Wilder Family Farm (Rominger Brothers Farms, Winters, California) --Bats against Bugs (Sierra Orchards, Winters, California) --Changing Course: TNC and a Tale of Two Rivers (Cosumnes and Sacramento River Restoration Projects) BUILDING A MATRIX OF FARMLAND HABITAT --Bringing a Watershed Back to Life (Coon Valley, Wisconsin) --The Prairie Potholes (Northwestern North Dakota) --Restoring the Bottomlands (Southwestern Arkansas) --Rehydrating the ArkLaTex (Northwestern Louisiana) --Much to Do about Muck (East Central Florida) NATURAL SYSTEMS FARMING --Thinking Like a Prairie (The Land Institute, Salina, Kansas) --Farming in Leopold's Footsteps (Kirschenmann Family Farms, Medina, North Dakota) --The Dairyman's Diversity (Enchanted Acres, LaCrosse, Minnesota) --Unconventional Conventional (Kenagy Family Farms, Corvallis, Oregon) --Farming below Zero (Four Season Farm, Harborside, Maine) --The Farm of Many Faces (Polyface Farm, Staunton, Virginia) CORRIDORS, WILDWAYS, AND CITIZEN MONITORING --Linking Farmscapes, Landscapes, and Human Communities (Adirondack Coast, New York) --Central Coast Farmscaping (Salinas and Pajaro Valleys, Watsonville, California) --Building Conservation Communities (Methow Valley, Skagit Valley, Washington) --The Farm as Park Visitor Center (Pumalin Park, Chile) WILD GARDEN FARMERS --Sangin' in Daniel Boone's Footsteps (Central Kentucky) --Basins of Relations (Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, Occidental, California) --Saving the Seeds of Endangered Agriculture (Native Seed Search, Patagonia, Arizona) --The Appalachian Food Forest (Long Branch Environmental Education Center, North Carolina) --Leading Edge Lettuce (Wild Garden Seed, Phliomath, Oregon) --Dry Farmed Tomatoes (Molino Creek, Davenport, California) --Ingrained Traditions (White Earth Land Recovery Project, Minnesota) ECOLABELS AND LOCAL MARKETING INITIATIVES --Making Peace with Predators (13-Mile Lamb and Wool, Belgrade, Montana) --Salmon-Safe: Evolution of an Ecolabel (Pacific Rivers Council, Portland, Oregon) --On Habit and Habitat (Pluma Hidalgo, Mexico) --CSA: Linking Farms and Tables (Common Harvest Farm, Osceola, Wisconsin) --A New Brand for Beef (Ervins Natural Beef Company, Arizona) GETTING STARTED --Some Basics --Managing for Wildlife --Bird Friendly Farming --Landowner Incentive Programs --Wild Farm Alliance Platform --Supporting Organizations Bibliography, Notes, Index, Credits