In Good Tilth, July 2005
In a trend where agribusiness is increasingly attracted to organic farming and large-scale organic growers produce multi-thousand acre monocrops, it is heartening to see that life on some farms and ranches is actually getting wilder. Around the country, farmers, government agencies, and consumers are finding that local farms can not only provide essential sources of nutritious food, but also protect wild biodiversity. In the Pacific Northwest, Salmon-Safe has been working for almost a decade to highlight the connection between food production and wildlife preservation…