A Farmer’s Transition from Planning to Doing
By Dan Popek, Asst. Farm Manager To quote our farm manager, Jason, “there are two things we can get better at: planning and execution.” When put so simply, it
March 19, 2020
By Dan Popek, Asst. Farm Manager To quote our farm manager, Jason, “there are two things we can get better at: planning and execution.” When put so simply, it
By Jason Halm, Farm Manager In the past few years, a lot of people have heard or talked about “no-till” farming. I’d like to discuss what this term means,
Aricema, an Itasca Bank & Trust Co. employee, volunteering at the Bensenville- Wood Dale Food Pantry In a time when our conservation work is getting done more and more at
By Kelsey Nasset, Farmer From the beginning, this humble vegetable was worshiped and revered by the Incan empire. Archaeologists have found it buried in ancient Incan burial sites from 500
Well, 2021 is finally over. It started with hope and expectations for a pandemic that would finally get under control, and ended a little short. But hey, I’m a glass
Steve Tiwald and his wife Karen Hutt were the founders twenty years ago of the Green Earth Institute, the organic farming operation headquartered at McDonald Farm that is now our
Our 2020 Earth Day Virtual Benefit Week is running from Wednesday, April 15th to TODAY, Wednesday, April 22nd, the 50th anniversary of Earth Day! Our online Silent Auction is open for bidding
Our 2020 Earth Day Virtual Benefit Week is running from Wednesday, April 15th to Wednesday, April 22nd! Our online Silent Auction is open for bidding and we’ll be bringing you daily
Our 2020 Earth Day Virtual Benefit Week is running from Wednesday, April 15th to TODAY, Wednesday, April 22nd, the 50th anniversary of Earth Day! Our online Silent Auction is open for bidding
There will always be more nature in need of preservation and restoration. And the end of the year is a great time to capitalize on the tax benefits of charitable
by Dan Popek, Assistant Farm Manager “The farmer lives and works in the meeting place of nature and the human economy. Farmers either fit their farming to their farms, conform
There are many unknowns in farming, but at least two constants: pests and weeds!!! And we’ve got them both in abundance here at McDonald Farm. But thanks to a generous
As I turned up the driveway to the farm two Sundays ago, I stared down the face of climate change in the form of several fields flooded out, the product
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