
Climate Change Needs Nature-Based Solutions as Carbon Focus Fails
Climate change is a hoax, or at least the notion that reducing carbon and other heat-trapping gasses in our atmosphere can stabilize our...
Jim Chamberlin
Jan 24 min read


Stumbling into Sustainability-Reusable Water Bottles
I grew up in the Central Valley of California during the start of the recycling revolution trend, but that doesn’t mean I understood it....
Liz Bristow
Jan 13 min read

Soil Health, Part One
Jim Chamberlin, Happy Dancing Turtle’s Conservation Technician, also operates a 109-acre diversified farm and forestry operation near...
Jim Chamberlin
Dec 18, 20245 min read


Tips for Preserving Produce: When Freezing is a Good Thing
If you’ve heard an undercurrent of whining every time you step outdoors, that may have been my muttering carried on a brisk north wind to...
Jenny Hill
Dec 6, 20243 min read

Soil Health, Part Three
Jim Chamberlin, Happy Dancing Turtle’s Conservation Technician, also operates a 109-acre diversified farm and forestry operation near...
Jim Chamberlin
Dec 4, 20245 min read

Soil Health, Part Two
Jim Chamberlin, Happy Dancing Turtle’s Conservation Technician, with his wife, Audra, operates a 109-acre diversified farm and forestry...
Jim Chamberlin
Dec 4, 20245 min read

Adventures in Sustainability: Food Waste and Some Great Alternatives
The numbers are sobering: According to the Environmental Defense Fund , 160 billion pounds of food goes uneaten every year in the United...
Jenny Hill
Dec 3, 20243 min read


Farmer-to-farmer Learning Makes Meaningful Change
Sustainable agriculture gives me hope. What gives me hope is the knowledge that much of what ails us and the planet we are part of can be...
Jim Chamberlin
Dec 3, 20244 min read

Soil Health, Part Four
Jim Chamberlin, Happy Dancing Turtle’s Conservation Technician, also operates a 109-acre diversified farm and forestry operation near...
Jim Chamberlin
Sep 30, 20225 min read