Iowa Learning Farms, a conservation education and outreach program from Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, has published the On-Farm Forestry Field Guide for Iowa, which is available at no cost. The guide covers tree-centric topics and provides detailed advice on approaches to forest management. It also highlights on-farm benefits ranging from windbreaks and erosion control to crop trees and high-value timber production...

Designing a Pollinator Garden

I’m no presidential historian. Ask me to list them in order and I’ll stumble beyond the Bushes and likely forget half the names to occupy the office during the country’s first 150 years. So, it should be no surprise that I was slow to appreciate that Lincoln, who I knew served during the most divisive chapter in American history, was our Nation’s greatest architect of cohesion...