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Our new location is: 1107 171st St NE Menoken, ND 58558. Our new phone number is: 701-673-3618. Our email is: menokenfarm@gmail.com
Advancing Soil Health Through Innovation and Education
The Menoken Farm is a conservation demonstration farm located in central North Dakota.Featured Events
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Menoken Farm is a combination of natural resource education and systems approach conservation. This 150-acre demonstration farm, located just east of Bismarck, ND was established in 2009 and draws people from all over the United States and beyond. The farm is owned and operated by Burleigh County Soil Conservation District, which has offices in Bismarck, ND.
After identifying a number of resource concerns across the Menoken Farm landscape, work focused on providing these basic building blocks to improve soil health:
- Soil armor
- Minimal soil disturbance
- Plant diversity
- Continual live plant/root
- Livestock integration
The systems approach management at Menoken Farm enhances erosion protection, sunlight harvest, plant diversity, carbon, pollinators, beneficial insects, wildlife, salinity control, livestock forage and more.
Our Mission Statement
Leading the way in soil regeneration by using the soil health principles and long-term soil monitoring through information and education. We will establish partnerships with producers and consumers to ensure agriculture for future generations.
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Soil Health Principle 5 – Livestock Integration
If only we could invent a way to distribute aerobic and anaerobic microbes effectively and economically across our agricultural landscapes. ...
Soil Health Principle 4 – Continual Live Plant
The first time we look at cover crops we usually question the seed cost, labor, equipment, time, water, nutrient, and even the social acceptance of...
Soil Health Principle 3 – Plant Diversity
Diversity is the elusive “Holy Grail” for ecosystem function, always easier to discuss than to achieve. The International Stratigraphic Chart...
Soil Health Principle 2 – Minimizing Soil Disturbance
Driving through a landscape allows you to observe fields with and without soil disturbance. Physical disturbance or tillage is the easiest to see....
Soil Health Principle 1 – Soil Armor
Agriculture has a long history of bare soils, even contributing to the downfall of past civilizations. Bare soils come with several challenges, such...
VISITING THE FARM
Darrell Oswald
District Manager
Jay Fuhrer
Lead Educator
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