{"id":2255,"date":"2014-12-01T06:35:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T11:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2255"},"modified":"2014-12-01T06:35:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T11:35:05","slug":"abundance-thinking-the-carbon-pilgrim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2255","title":{"rendered":"Abundance Thinking | The carbon pilgrim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carbonpilgrim.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/29\/abundance-thinking\/\">Abundance Thinking | The carbon pilgrim<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 23px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 23px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">On a fine August day, I flew to New England in search of abundance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 23px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 23px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">I was on the road to visit Dorn Cox, a young farmer who lives and works on his family\u2019s 250-acre organic farm, called\u00a0<em style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Tuckaway<\/em>, near Lee, New Hampshire. Dorn calls himself a \u201ccarbon farmer,\u201d meaning he thinks about carbon in everything he does. Confronting agriculture\u2019s addiction to hydrocarbons, for example,\u00a0<em style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Tuckaway<\/em>\u00a0produces a significant amount of its energy needs on-farm. Dorn does it with biodiesel \u2013 canola specifically \u2013 which he and his family grow on only 10 percent of the farm\u2019s land. This was big news, so I thought a visit would be worthwhile.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 23px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 23px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">I met Dorn in a hayfield behind a home belonging to a University of New Hampshire professor, spreading wood ash carefully among a grid of study plots. He gave me a wave as I parked the car, putting the ash can on the ground. Farmer-thin, wearing muddy jeans, a yellow shirt, and a floppy straw hat that shaded intense blue eyes, Dorn extended a hand and gave me an energetic grin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 23px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 23px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\u201cWhat\u2019s going on here?\u201d I asked nodding at the gridded plots, though I knew it was part of his Ph.D research. \u201cJust trying to figure out the best way to turn a hayfield into a farm without tilling it,\u201d he replied. \u201cAnd create a food and energy system that puts more carbon into the soil than comes out.\u201d Was the professor okay with this? I asked. He\u2019s fine with it, Dorn reassured me. \u201cThere are a lot of these little fields behind people\u2019s houses. With some work they could be growing a great deal of produce,\u201d he said. \u201cWe just need to figure out a way to do it without using a plow.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 23px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 23px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">As we walked across his study plots, Dorn explained his thinking.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 23px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 23px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abundance Thinking | The carbon pilgrim. On a fine August day, I flew to New England in search of abundance. I was on the road to visit Dorn Cox, a young farmer who lives and works on his family\u2019s 250-acre organic farm, called\u00a0Tuckaway, near Lee, New Hampshire. Dorn calls himself a \u201ccarbon farmer,\u201d meaning he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[20,299,1535,1091,1536],"class_list":["post-2255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-agriculture","tag-farming","tag-hydrocarbons","tag-soil","tag-soil-fertility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2256,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions\/2256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}