Regenerative Farming – Greener Pastures Ranching
On all of the eroded grain land, we need livestock back out there, recycling nutrients back into the soil. That’s how nature had it planned. In any environment where there’s a dormant season, nature put a ruminant animal. A ruminant is a cow, a deer, a sheep, an elk, a goat, or an elephant. Ruminants have four stomachs and they basically decompose plant material with microorganisms and bacteria in the gut. If you have a dormant season in an environment, for example, winter in North America, the bugs die off and there’s nothing there to decompose the plant material that’s left over. Nature brings in a ruminant animal where the bugs have a place to work – except here, they’re working inside the stomach of the cow. In a rainforest environment, there’s no need for a ruminant because the material falls to the ground, decomposers can work in the soil all year round. But here, where we have a dormant season, we need ruminants.
EP28 Electric Tractor
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Explore the joys, risks and paybacks of being one of the first electric tractor owners in Canada with agricultural producer Tony Neale.
Giving Credit to Soil Carbon Workshop
February 19th, 2020 – Mayerthorpe, AB
Learn about the benefits of carbon sequestration and how to get soil carbon credits for your farm!
Farming, Energy, and Ecosystems Workshop
February 27th, 2020 – Bonnyville, AB
Join us in Bonnyville, AB to learn about green energy solutions and ecosystem services for your farm. We’ll have presenters from the green energy sector, government, and finance to answer questions about how Alberta farms can benefit from transitioning to green energy solutions and implementing farm practices that protect the surrounding ecosystems.
EP27 The Lundgards
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Mary and Peter Lundgard of Nature’s Way Farm in Grimshaw sit down with writer Trina Moyles to talk farming, nutrition, changes in the climate and healing the land in the Peace country.
Passive Solar Greenhouse Workshop
February 22nd, 2020 – Athabasca, AB
Want to learn about greenhouse growing that keeps your energy bills and carbon footprint down? Join our workshop this winter!
EP26 What We do
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A unique look at how Rural Routes to Climate Solutions got started, how and why we do what we do from the perspective of Rural Routes’ creator and Alix agricultural producer Brenda Barritt.
Raymond Solar Project Webinar
February 3rd, 2020
Join Greg Robinson from the Town of Raymond to learn more about their municipal solar project that earned them the title of “First Electrically Net-Zero Town in North America”
EP25 Don Ruzicka
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Focusing on the evolution of his farm from conventional to regenerative and to the next step of selling the farm, Killam agricultural producer Don Ruzicka shares his thoughts with us.
EP24 AMP Grazing
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University of Alberta PhD student Jessica Grenke and Dr. Edward Bork discuss adaptive multi-paddock (AMP) grazing systems’ impacts on plant ecology and soil carbon sequestration.
