8/ Pals, already, with OSU’s Small Farms Program, we took a proposition to their recently-established Dry Farming Collaborative, a research project exploring visionary agro-ecological approaches to hotter, drier climates and the compounding challenge of increasing water scarcity.
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Excerpt of tweet thread here: 3/ That’s a trait especially well-suited to the functional ecology of regenerative design, I find. Locally, say, take the Dry Farming Institute, an OSU-originated project characterized by an innovative approach involving an extraordinary diversity of participants and disciplines. 4/ Standing at the avant-garde edgeline of visionary approaches to water-use strategies in droughty conditions, the DFI has assembled an unorthodox, co-creative partnership of growers, extension educators, plant breeders, agricultural professionals, horticulturalists and others. 5/ Why pay notice? Well, for those of us involved, it's patently clear that coherently tackling a fundamentally holistic challenge at its roots, demands the fundamentally holistic approach of a social ecology mirroring universal ecological principles of mutualism and reciprocity.
@AndrewMillison 6/ And where do women figure in the mix? Of course, Amy Garrett, the remarkable ag scientist who founded and promoted the effort, derives her confederate superpowers from a medley of qualities transcending gender, but the evidence of my ears and eyes consistently confirms that…
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