the better farming train – The Prairie Serf

The Prairie Serf

A no non-sense look into regenerative agriculture, sustainable farming and modern life on the prairies. From plant health, soil ecosystems, and microbes to fertilizer and micro-nutrients; the Prairie Serf is here to investigate what regenerative farming has to offer.

In the Wake of the Better Farming Train

Probably forty per cent of settlers who go on our pioneer farms have no knowledge of agriculture in any country, let alone prairie agriculture, and many make distressing and expensive mistakes largely for want of some person to confer with and advise them. – W.R. Motherwell in 1913 Way back, in 1914, when twenty horse power …

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