by Terry Maczuga | Jul 8, 2014
Here at Cloud Mountain, many hours have been dedicated to discussing how to improve the soils, and what improvement even means. By organic standards, the goal is to “manage plant and animal materials to maintain or improve soil organic matter content in a manner that...
by Terry Maczuga | Apr 19, 2014
As an intern at Cloud Mountain Farm Center I have the privilege to consider the big picture of dynamic food systems, sustainability and community. The focus on long-term well-being of the farm and the watershed it inhabits must consider soil health as the backbone of...
by Terry Maczuga | Feb 19, 2014
Our 2014 interns have arrived, and we’re already through the first two weeks of the thirty-five exciting weeks of education! The interns engage in one full day of education each week while doing correlating work on the farm the other four days. In these first few...
by Terry Maczuga | Oct 30, 2013
As autumn deepens, we’re all enjoying the fall harvest; apples and pears, winter squash, cider and quince… What the heck is quince??? Quince is a very old fruit, closely related to pears. It is native to Southeast Asia, mainly Turkey and Iran, but has...
by Terry Maczuga | Oct 14, 2013
Intern Profile: Chris Henderson Chris broke from an eight-year career as a wind energy engineer in Seattle to come to Cloud Mountain as a full-time farming intern. During his undergraduate years studying engineering at Michigan State University, Chris became active in...
