Tons of great action at the Big Soil Health Event. It was good to see some familiar faces like Roy Pfaltzgraff. The Haxtun, Colo, no-tiller gives us the inside scoop on his new online community called Seeding Circles, which he says is the culmination of his dryland no-till journey.

“A lot of times, we feel like feel like we’re competing against the neighbor across the road, but if we talk to someone 500 miles away, there isn’t that competition or risk of being judged. Seeding Circles allows like-minded farmers to come together and help each other because any one of us can’t feed our population in our country but working together we can all change the food system, improve the profitability of farming, reduce the stress of farming — that’s what we’ve seen raising so many different crops. We’re actually less stressed. We have less work because we’re not trying to do as many acres in a short period of time. All these different factors played into this. And we can share it with others, and we can help others go down that path. That’s where Seeding Circles came from, was that desire to help others and address the mental health issues in agriculture.” 

And for more information on Roy’s project, head to SeedingCircles.com. 

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