Entries by ncat-admin

Native and Naturalized Plants of South Texas for Urban Food Forests

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I’m a Californian born and raised, so writing a blog about native and naturalized South Texas plants is one thing I never thought I’d do. But this spring I got the opportunity to go to Texas for an entire month, to work on an urban agroforestry project, and during that time I fell in love with its amazing native and naturalized plants.

Katherine Favor, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist

Soil Health Academy: More than Just a Soil Health Workshop

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By Luz Ballesteros Gonzalez, NCAT Agriculture Specialist The National Center for Appropriate Technology’s (NCAT) Soil for Water program and  Understanding Ag provided scholarships enabling seven beginning small-acreage livestock producers from […]

Graze, Move, Repeat

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By Hernan Colmenero  To understand something, we must be willing to observe it. Observe the movements, patterns, shapes, and textures of the thing. The distance, frequency, timing, and sizes, too. […]

Advanced Grazing Webinar, Session 3 – Animals

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Do you like to eat fresh food? Do you like variety in your diet? Most of us would probably answer ‘yes’ to both questions. Not surprisingly, livestock crave the same things we do. If that desire is not met, then we get less than optimal livestock performance. This can create health problems for the animals, increase costs, and reduce profitability. So how can we constantly provide fresh food for livestock and a diet that is diverse?
Justin Morris and Lee Rinehart

Urban Agroforestry: Bringing the Jungle Back to the Concrete Jungle

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Cities are notorious for being devoid of flora and fauna. They don’t call it the concrete jungle for nothing! But it doesn’t have to be that way. In this blog, we’re going to talk about how we can bring a little bit of jungle back to the concrete jungle with something called urban agroforestry.
Katherine Favor