Earth Day 53: Invest in Our Planet
Note: This blog was written by a real person–me. The first Earth Day was in 1970; atmospheric carbon dioxide was 325 ppm. Earth Day 53…
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May 30, 2023
Note: This post was written by a real person–me. All photos by me unless otherwise noted. March Fifth, Calving Season Begins Tagging Calves To promote good health and improve herd management, we catch each newborn calf before it is 24 hours old and put a tag that matches the mother’s tag in the calf’s ear. […]
Identify and Deter the House Sparrow From Nesting Boxes
This post has been revised with breakthrough information on eliminating House Sparrows from your nesting boxes. It was initially posted in 2017, and revised on…
Farmland Conservation is Critical for the Shenandoah Valley
Note: This was written by a real person: me. Farming is the heart and soul of the Shenandoah Valley and the number one industry in…
Conservation Vouchers, Making Farming Safer and More Efficient
The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay has a program that helped us be more efficient and safer farmers with conservation vouchers. It’s called the Healthy…
Hope and Healing: Reflections and Pictures 2022
The worst of the COVID-19 pandemic is over. Science, reason, and truth prevailed over doubt, fear, and lies this year. In this post, I’ll share…
Protecting the Farm Forever–Chapter Three, Recording the Easement, Costs and Benefits
A Historic Day for Farmland Staunton, Virginia: It was a hot summer day on August 4. We met the senior easement specialist with the Virginia Outdoors…
BOBBY'S BOOKS
Bobby writes about life on his farm, implementing riparian buffers, and the factors that led to the defeat of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
Bobby Whitescarver and Jeanne Hoffman are using WaterWatch to document the effectiveness of BMPs on their Whiskey Creek and Meadow View Farms to reduce nutrient, sediment, and bacteria loads into Whiskey Creek and Middle River. Water Watch, created by The Downstream Project, is designed around two cloud-based applications developed by The Commons (formerly Chesapeake Commons): Water Reporter, a social network that shares images, observations, and monitoring data to fuel social media campaigns for improving water quality; and Field Doc, which measures stream restoration impacts of management practices at the project and parcel level. View FieldDoc and WaterReporter…