Cultivating Common Ground | Scott Haase

Scott is actively cultivating a common ground between the world of large-scale industrial agriculture and small-scale Permaculture & Agroforestry. His mission is harnessing Nature's wisdom and power in ways that serve people while restoring the diversity, abundance, and synergies to degraded ecosystems. He is an incredible voice to speak to both sides in an often polarizing debate on how to effectively produce food, energy & health for our rural Midwestern communities. He is a friend, mentor & education partner of our Open Hearth PDC program. Listen to his story and journey...Scott Haase is actively cultivating a common ground between the world of large-scale industrial agriculture and small-scale Permaculture & Agroforestry. Scott is an incredible voice to speak to both sides in an often polarizing debate on how to effectively produce food, energy & health for our rural Midwestern communities. He is a sixth-generation farmer from Blue Earth, Minnesota, working with his father and brother at Haase Family Farms, which produces corn and soybeans using conventional farming methods. On the home front, Scott also farms his 10-acre homestead, Blue Dirt Farm, where he raises Pasture & woodland-raised Mangalitza pigs, foraging poultry and waterfowl, perennial crops. He is passionate about soil building strategies that can be integrated on both the small & large scale to protect the health of the land, soil & local Blue Earth River watershed running right through his own backyard. He focuses on cultivating this ‘common ground’ through speaking, hosting tours, and sharing practical skills focused on harnessing the power of nature! His mission is harnessing Nature's wisdom and power in ways that serve people while restoring the diversity, abundance, and synergies to degraded ecosystems. Learn more at: Blue Dirt Farm >- - -If you want to learn the skills to live a more natural, resilient lifestyle like growing natural food, natural health & having a healthier home - check out our NEW Natural Living Online Course >- - - If you enjoy the show, please subscribe and do 3 simple things:Share it with someone else in your life Leave a review or rating for the showSubmit a question for us to answer on ‘What would Nature do?” - our monthly Q&A series at landbyhand.org/pfpThanks for listening and your support! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.