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Melanie Crawford of Butterfly Hill Farm (28:59)
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Farm Aide, restoring land back to health, Melanie Crawford, both Melanie's parents were professors at the University of North Dakota, Melanie's seed-saving ventures, sorghum, molasses, sorghum syrup: sorghum is a grass, planted in spring harvested in fall, similar to a corn stalk, strip off all leaves and take plant to a mill press the cane boil the juice down, not a similar flavor to traditional molasses, corn syrup and beet sugar, sorghum sugar could replace some of these other sugars, the layout of Melanie's farm in Missouri, Butterfly Hill Farm, local seed already acclamated to area, raccoons ravaged Melanie's corn crop, medicinal herbs, experimentation with raised beds and biodynamic planting, flowers integrated into every crop, dehydrated peppers okra tomatoes, what is the predominant land use in Melanie's area of Missouri?, cattle, corn, soybeans, sharing bumper crops, www.butterflyhillfarm.blogspot.com,Download MP3 (Full Episode)
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