Seeds: Farming Forever
Author: Kerry Hoffschneider | Published: June 19, 2018
It has been 100 years since Jacob and Alma Gonnerman purchased their farm in York County, Neb. on August 2, 1918. Raymond and Evelyn Gonnerman bought the same farm on February 4, 1947. Since 2004, Raymond’s grandson Scott and his wife Barb have been owners and stewards of the Gonnerman homestead.
Recently, more than 40 farmers and ranchers from across the Midwest – Iowa, Indiana to Kansas, traveled to this century farm to learn about the regenerative practices Scott and Barb have implemented to ensure their land carries on for the next 100 years and more. They also journeyed there to listen to two presenters – Christine Jones, PhD, who is an internationally-renowned soil ecologist from Australia and founder of Amazing Carbon, www.amazingcarbon.com and Jay Fuhrer – a Soil Health Specialist from Bismarck, N.D. who represented the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Menoken Farm, a demonstration farm implementing cover crops and other regenerative practices located outside Menoken, N.D. – www.menokenfarm.com.