Resource Category: Climate-smart practices

Learn how the National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) can help your farm.

Obtaining a farm number from the Farm Service Agency (FSA) can be an invaluable tool opening up opportunities for you and your farm. 

How can farms help mitigate floods and protect communities downstream? (Hint: it starts in our soil!)

This agroforestry case study highlights a nonprofit farm that worked with Pasa to design an alley cropping site plan that would address natural resource concerns on their land.

This agroforestry case study highlights an urban farm that worked with Pasa and Interlace Commons to design an alley cropping site plan that would maximize space in their existing orchard.

This agroforestry case study highlights a draft-horse powered diversified vegetable farm that worked with Pasa and Interlace Commons to design an alley cropping site plan that would accommodate its unique goals.

Get an overview of this ancient agroforestry practice that today’s land stewards can adapt to conserve and enrich natural resources while diversifying their income streams.

Get research updates from Pasa and Rodale Institute, learn about new data management tools, and find out about funding opportunities to support soil health practices on your farm.

Learn about two farms adopting this agroforestry practice in the Keystone State.

What rules and tools should guide the development of alternative energy on farmland?

It seems logical that healthier soil could grow healthier food. But how do we measure this and demonstrate it scientifically?

Urban soils can pose unique challenges for growers. Learn how to identify and address your soil’s quality and health issues.

What are the soil samples, field management records, and first-hand experiences from 100+ farms telling us about soil health?

Are you interested in helping to scale up the renewable energy economy with on-farm solar energy?

We used a whole-farm model to evaluate environmental footprints of all-grass, grass supplemented with grain, and confinement dairy production systems in the temperate climate of the northeastern U.S.

Per dollar spent, improving agricultural practices is one of our best investments toward clean and safe water.

Through our Soil Health Benchmark Study, we’re discovering soil health problems farmers are facing. During this webinar, we review several common soil health challenges and explore how farmers are working to fix them.

A vegetable farmer grapples with improving soil health on her persistently wet fields.

We explore how a row crop farm could utilize cover crops to remediate the damaging effects wet weather has had on its soil aggregate stability.

A farmer considers how he can improve efficiency—and therefore profit—on his third-generation pastured livestock farm.