Hoarfrost
By: Dr. Jonathan Lundgren November 26, 2020 I recently turned 45 years old. If asked in other context, I would not remark that this...
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Dr. Jonathan Lundgren
May 22, 20204 min read
Life is Full
May 23, 2020 Dr. Jonathan Lundgren This morning broke with the flock of sheep announcing their presence outside of our bedroom window....
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Dr. Jonathan Lundgren
May 8, 20205 min read
The Farm is a Family
May 9, 2020 Dr. Jonathan Lundgren Spring pushes the claws of winter from the land, and slowly green replaces brown on the landscape. The...
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Dr. Michael Bredeson
Apr 27, 20203 min read
Fulfillment in Nature and Food During the COVID Doldrums
4-28-2020 Mike Bredeson PhD. Research ecologist Ecdysis Foundation How have you been lately? Bored, isolated? Many of us are feeling this...
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Dr. Ryan Schmid
Apr 27, 20202 min read
The Nobility of Your "Why"
4-28-2020 Dr. Ryan Schmid Growing up, I learned one important lesson in life: always look for the positives in bad situations. It helped...
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Dr. Jonathan Lundgren
Apr 24, 20209 min read
The Solution to a More Silent Spring
April 25, 2020 By Dr. Jonathan Lundgren Director of Ecdysis Foundation When you were growing up, how often did you have to clean your...
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Dr. Michael Bredeson
Apr 23, 20204 min read
Mending a Fragile Food Supply Chain
By Dr. Michael Bredeson, Ecdysis Research Scientist 04/23/2020 We can’t hope to fight off an illness or rebuild an economy without being...
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Dr. Ryan Schmid
Apr 5, 20205 min read
Pandemic at the Grocery Can Strengthen America
Dr. Ryan Schmid 04/05/2020 My, how our daily lives have changed since Covid-19 reached America. All of us have experienced moments when...
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Dr. Jonathan Lundgren
Apr 4, 20203 min read
A Light at the End of the Isolation Tunnel
April 5, 2020 Dr. Jonathan Lundgren Like many, I am thinking about social isolation right now. And asking the question: What does society...
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Dr. Jonathan Lundgren
Sep 3, 20199 min read
We Must Heal the Soil to Save the Bees
September 4, 2019 Dr. Jonathan Lundgren A tragedy on six legs. In 2014, I was asked to present for the American Honey Producer’s meeting...
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Dr. Jonathan Lundgren
Jul 27, 20193 min read
Regenerating Rural Communities
Dr. Jonathan Lundgren July 28, 2019 Recently, I read a book called From the Hidewood (Robert Amerson 1996), about the Hidewood Valley...
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Dr. Jonathan Lundgren
Mar 18, 20193 min read
An Alternative to a "Pest-Centric" Society - A Short Excerpt
A Viable Alternative to the Myth of Pesticides It is getting more and more expensive to produce food these days. You don’t have to listen...
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Dr. Jonathan Lundgren
Feb 27, 20198 min read
Healing the Soil to Solve the Bee Problem - A Brief Essay
2-27-2019 Dr. Jonathan Lundgren Our planet faces numerous large scale and inter-related problems, including climate change1, 2, large...
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Dr. Jonathan Lundgren
Feb 13, 20195 min read
Measuring a Movement: One Seed at a Time
February 13, 2019 Dr. Jonathan Lundgren Blue Dasher Farm (and Ecdysis Foundation, our non-profit research entity) was made to fill a...
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Dr. Jonathan Lundgren
Dec 20, 20185 min read
The Risky Business of Pesticides
Dr. Jonathan Lundgren 12-20-2018 It is easy for a farmer to justify applying a pesticide to their field. “Margins are thin, and...
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Dr. Jonathan Lundgren
Sep 11, 20185 min read
Confessions of a Corn Entomologist
Dr. Jonathan Lundgren 9-12-2018 As a young scientist, I swore I would never work in corn. So many of my peers had devoted their entire...
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Dr. Jonathan Lundgren
Jan 1, 20186 min read
Dicamba and Bees
Dr. Jonathan Lundgren January 1, 2018 Repeating a mistake generally doesn’t end well. When genetically modified, glyphosate-tolerant...
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