Iowan Seth Watkins has a dream to bring biodiversity back to Southwest Iowa and build a brighter, more vibrant rural community. ALUS is one of the ways he wants to achieve it.Seth Watkins has been trying to make his farm smaller. He’s reduced his Iowa acreage from...
Ron Toonders, Switchgrass for Grassroots Resilience
Farmers like Ron Toonders are building resilient practices that benefit nature and the agricultural landscape in Ontario This photo depicts the root system of switchgrass, Panicum virgatum. (Grown at The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas) In the hot summer months,...
Currie McIntosh; Happily Creating Habitat at Haywood Farms
The McIntosh family is promoting biodiversity through their environmental projects on their farm in Ontario Currie McIntosh stands in front of the stormwater retention pond project he constructed with ALUS in 2020. In the fall of 2023, farmers and ranchers visited...
Participant Profile: Liz & Bruce Milner
At the frog bowl, nature is art itself This painting shows a snowy winter scene with a red tail hawk flying overhead. Coyotes materialize out of the bull rushes within the frog bowl. The large reforestation project is also captured which includes 300 white pine, red...