You only need farmers when you’re hungry!
“Well, I suppose we don’t need farmers much. Just three times a day.”
That’s a comment I’ve heard many times from Orion Samuelson – the voice of agriculture in America since 1960 when he...
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Farming & Land Conservation
What is conservation? The definition is “the careful preservation of something.”
Conservation is talked about typically in the context of nature, water, soil, a historic structure, artwork, and the like. In...
Water: Don’t Waste a Drop!
In McHenry County, water is all around us: Groundwater. Wetlands. Watersheds. Stormwater. Even so, all of the water people use locally comes from the ground. Municipal and private wells reach down into “groundwater aquifers”...