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Kentucky Color: Sustainable Agriculture at Homeplace

2019-03-02 - Taylor Co., KY - Photo by Billy Joe Fudge
Soil Health Cover Crops are much more effective when established in the Fall but the historic amounts and frequency of rainfall during the Fall and Winter delayed the bean harvest. So, we began drilling our Cereal Rye on Thursday, February 28, 2019.

Sustainable Agriculture can only be achieved when we create conditions where our soils are biologically healthy and current levels of soil organics are maintained or increased. Soil Health Cover Crops are our one best way to achieve that sustainability.
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Observing manners at mealtime

2019-03-02 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, columbiamagazine.com
The sheep in front clearly has the best manners, using the lunch tray, as opposed to the one in back diving right into the middle of the food.
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RIDES: trading cars, going from traditional to electric

2019-03-02 - Traveling north past the Ohio River in a pounding rain storm in a car operating only on battery power - Photo by Linda and Matilda Anne Waggener
Renewable energy has long been an interest of this driver, so in the face of having to change used cars yet again, Tom Waggener convinced himself that helping the environment mixed with the cost savings over time would offset the added expense of going electric. This is the scene from the back seat looking at the iPad control panel and out over the "frunk", the "front trunk" where the engine would be in a traditional car.
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