THE MORNING SHOW

with
Patrick Timpone

Dorn Cox

Innovative Strategies for Sustainable Agriculture and the Reduction of Greenhouse Gases

In addition to being the director for GreenStart, Dorn is also a farmer working the 250-acre family farm in Lee. He has designed and constructed systems for small-scale grain and oil seeds processing and biofuel production, worked to select effective cover crops, grains and oilseed for food and energy production, and has developed no-till and low-till equipment to reduce energy use and increase soil health in New Hampshire conditions.

Dorn is also a founding member of Farm Hack, the New England Farmers’ Union, the Great Bay Grain Cooperative, the Oyster River Biofuel Initiative, and he serves as a Vice President of the New Hampshire Association of Conservation Districts. He has a B.S. from Cornell University and is a PhD candidate at the University of New Hampshire, developing open source agricultural research and development systems to improve farm productivity and resilience.

Show Highlights:

-Growing seed oils as an energy source

-Returning carbon to the soil with cover crops and tilling reduction

-The way we farm is adding to greenhouse gases even more than cars, Dorn explains

-Returning minerals to the soil through interesting planting schedules and methods

and so much more!

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dorn cox and bringing more carbon into the soil, july 8, 2014