From Desert Soil to Full Plates: 4th-Generation Farmer Cassy England on Working the Land that Feeds Us
On this episode of Fill Your Plate Now, farm girl Julie Murphree and Nutrition Ninja Tammy Baker sit down with Cassy England, a fourth-generation Arizona farmer in Pinal and Pima Counties. Cassy shares her family's story that began in 1932, how she returned to the land after college, and what it takes to manage roughly 6,500 acres of cotton, alfalfa, wheat, barley, corn, and oats in the desert. Listeners will hear how careful crop rotation keeps soil healthy, how precision irrigation stretches every acre-foot of water, and why alfalfa grown on Arizona farms becomes nutritious feed for dairy…
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