Rethinking the American Family Farm
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CRESCO, IOWA (CNN iReport) --- I found it interesting that the boyhood farm of Norman Borlaug, the father of the “Green Revolution” and “god” of conventional farming as we know it, now inhabits an organic, sustainable-farming strategy. The Natvigs and Borlaugs have been neighbors for as far back as they can remember, and as a result, they just happen to be related. I spoke with Godfrey Natvig, age 89, former Howard County Soil & Water Commissioner and life-long farmer; Mike Natvig, age 44, quite busy on an organic, sustainable revolution of his own; as well as, Mary Damm, a soil scientist from Indiana University. The answers given -- both from the soil, as well as from a six-generation farming family -- might surprise you.
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