Pennsylvania farmers had a field day on Friday, teaching each other that the grass can be greener on the other side. Three PillarZ Farm hosted a field day, teaching farmers that sustainable farming starts and ends with the soil.
This approach to farming is called regenerative agriculture, or in other words, leaning on the biodiversity of crops to keep their soil healthy, crops thriving and food nutritious.
We spoke with cattle farmer Russ Wilson who said that this approach leads to superior products and is a big reason to support local, "The local farmer like for myself we have over 180 species of plants on our farm and doing that, the health of the plant actually goes into the animal and from the animal it goes into the end product, you know T-bone steak, hamburger whatever, so it's mor