Cover Crop Field Day with GABE BROWN at Doubting Thomas Farm
Wed, Jul 24
|Doubting Thomas Farms
Join this world-renowned soil health expert at a diversified grains farm in Moorhead, Minnesota!
Time & Location
Jul 24, 2024, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Doubting Thomas Farms, 12506 20th St N, Moorhead, MN 56560, USA
About the event
Join Go Farm Connect, the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Northern Plains Sustainable Ag, Grand Farm and Doubting Thomas Farms in Moorhead for this incredible opportunity to hear from soil health expert and grazier Gabe Brown.
Gabe Brown is a pioneer of the soil-health movement and has been named one of the twenty-five most influential agricultural leaders in the United States. Brown, his wife, Shelly, and son, Paul, own Brown’s Ranch, a holistic, diversified 5,000-acre farm and ranch near Bismarck, North Dakota. The Browns integrate their grazing and no-till cropping systems, which include cash crops and multi-species cover crops along with all-natural, grass-finished beef and lamb, pastured pork, and laying hens. The Brown family has received a Growing Green Award from the Natural Resources Defense Council, an Environmental Stewardship Award from the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, and the USA Zero-Till Farmer of the Year Award.
This event is hosted by Go Farm Connector Noreen Thomas and her daughter-in-law Melany Thomas at Doubting Thomas Farms, a certified organic farm in the beautiful Red River Valley raising organic oats, wheat, blue corn, barley and soybeans, along with fresh-picked garden produce and certified-organic eggs from free-range chickens. They will be joined by regional NRCS staff who will talk to participants about federal farm programs and cost-share opportunities to help growers implement soil health practices:
Travis Doeden – District Conservationist – Moorhead Field Office
Bryan Delaney – Soil Conservationist – Moorhead Field Office
Jamieson Volk – District Conservationist – Breckenridge Field Office
Adam Mortenson – Soil Conservationist – Detroit Lakes Field Office
Snacks will be provided, so please do RSVP to help us plan.
About Go Farm Connect
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Go Farm Connect is a farmer-led initiative to build relationships between historically underserved specialty crop farmers (beginning, women, veterans, BIPOC and new Americans) and federal farm agencies. Our Connectors are trained to help farms of all sizes and specialties in Minnesota and Wisconsin access agricultural assistance programs. The three-year project is led by Renewing The Countryside in partnership with the US Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency, and Natural Resources Conservation Service. Registration through this link is helpful so that USDA staff can be aware of what questions you might want answered. Go Farm Connect staff may take photos and videos at this event to promote programs and future events. Your RSVP gives your permission to be photographed. Please let a Connector know at the event if you want to be kept out of photos.