This month, we’re focusing on the topic of Cover Crops. Learn more about the intricacies and benefits of cover cropping with these resources – from free podcasts to educational book titles and more!

Best Books on Cover Crops

• Book of the Month: Crop Rotation & Cover Cropping by Seth Kroeck – Addressed are many of the possible variables in forming the rotation as well as where to find room for compromise between the “perfect horticulture” model and day-to-day logistics. 
• Growing Life: Regenerating Farming and Ranching by André Leu – This book explores the fundamentals of regenerative agriculture, including specific, proven steps designed to grow healthy food, while protecting our natural resources like clean water, soil and air.
• Dirt to Soil by Gabe Brown – When North Dakota farmer and rancher Gabe Brown switched to no-till planting, started planting diverse cover crops mixes, and changed his grazing practices, he transformed a degraded farm ecosystem into one full of life―starting with the soil and working his way up, one plant and one animal at a time.
• Roller/Crimper No-Till: Advancing No-Till Agriculture by Jeff Moyer – Combining the best aspects of no-till with recent innovations in equipment design and in-field research, the system laid out in this book “provides great potential for agricultural change,” Moyer writes, “through the use of cover crops and reduction of synthetic herbicides, while giving organic farmers what they need in terms of weed management and soil building practices.”
• Advancing Biological Farming by Gary Zimmer – This book offers invaluable scientific support for committed organic farmers as well as conventional farmers who’d like to reduce chemical inputs and use natural processes to their advantage.

Learn in Person

“A cover crop, as any other good practice, must be a part of a total system and not just an unrelated single-shot input,” writes Schriefer in Eco-Farm. The 2023 Eco-Ag Conference & Trade Show this Dec. 5-8 in Covington, KY, will bring together hundreds of farmers, ranchers and industry professionals to learn from the experts.

Every year, we set a new standard for innovative and practical learning in modern agriculture. Learn from top-notch speakers about tactics that build soil biology, balance chemistry, improve structure and integrate biodiversity like livestock, companion crops and cover crops. 

You can learn from:

• John Kempf
• Dr. Don Huber
• Rick Clark
• Jesse Frost
• And more!

Take the next step in your soil health education and join us for the 2023 Eco-Ag Conference this year! See speakers, the full agenda and more at EcoAg.AcresUSA.com.

Best Free Articles on Cover Cropping

Our free website, www.EcoFarmingDaily.com, is a great resource for in-depth articles on all kinds of topics related to organic, eco-agriculture. Some of our popular articles specifically about cover cropping include:

• Cover Crops Don’t Deplete Moisture – SSARE study
• Cover Crop Grazing on a Vegetable Farm by Lauren Krizansky
• Cover Crops Make Farming Fun Again by Mary Ann Lieser

Find more great articles in the Grow Crops section of EcoFarmingDaily.com

Learn Online

If you aren’t able to travel for soil health education this year – we’ve got you covered! Our Eco-Ag U Online courses are virtual classrooms where you can download important lessons from experts and learn at your own pace.

The 2021 Eco-Ag Conference Replay is a great place to get a vast variety of knowledge, including cover cropping, from a large number of experts at once. Check it out here or browse our whole virtual catalogue at Learn.AcresUSA.com.

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Our October 2023 Issue focuses on the theme of cover crops. It has already arrived in subscriber mailboxes, and is also available for individual purchase at our bookstore in both physical and digital formats.

Physical Issue | Digital Issue

Check out our October 2023 table of contents – and subscribe here to get AcresUSA magazine delivered to you monthly!

This month’s cover

FEATURES

Planting Green
BY VICTOR SHELTON
Innovation merely requires a change of mindset.

Priorities for Profitability and Regeneration
BY JOHN KEMPF
Soil amendments are the least important part of building profitable and more regenerative systems.

Iron Management
BY DR. PATRICK FREEZE
Understanding iron’s mechanisms in productive soil.

Culturing Agriculture
BY TARA MAXWELL
The Alliance of Sustainable Farms celebrates a decade of supporting small-scale farms in Mississippi.

DEPARTMENTS

VIEW FROM THE COUNTRY
Monthly musings from Acres U.S.A.’s editor.

OPINION

Manage with Mother Nature in Mind- Lessons learned from cover crops in 2023. 
BY LORAN STEINLAGE

ECO-UPDATE News in brief on developments in agronomic science. 

REGEN AGRONOMY  
Seven Agronomic Virtues- My tips for developing regenerative systems. BY JIM PINGREY

REGEN ECONOMICS 
Cooperation Motivation- A farmer’s guide to co-ops. BY KIRSTEN SIMMONS

INTERVIEW
Oklahoma farmer Jimmy Emmons discusses using cover crops for drought resilience, how to influence policy changes, and why managing regenerative systems requires more, and better, education.   

REVIEWS

BOOKSTORE

MARKETPLACE

CLASSIFIEDS

ECO-MEETINGS

ECO-GRAPHIC

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Here is a list of resources related to whatever you need to learn about regenerative supply chains, from free articles to our most recent issue of Acres U.S.A. magazine.

Best Books on Regenerative Supply Chains

There are lots of titles on supply chains! Here’s a list of bestselling books from our Farm Business and Marketing Collection at the Acres U.S.A. Bookstore.

• Farming Without Losing Your Hat by Paul Dorrance
• A Farmer’s Guide to the Bottom Line by Charles Walters
• The Lean Farm by Ben Hartman
• Ready Farmer One by Nina Galle & Diego Footer
• Honor System Marketing by Jeff Mcpherson

Free Articles on Regenerative Supply Chains

• Build Your Own Sustainability Network by Richard Finzer
• Food Hubs Connect Growers, Consumers by  Lauren Turner
• Preserving a Way of Life With the Cooperative Model by Wayne Wengerd
• Successful Crowdfunding for Agricultural Pursuits by Eric Gibson
• Find more articles in the Farm Business and Marketing Collection of the Eco-Farming Daily website

Read the September 2023 Issue

The September 2023 issue of AcresUSA magazine deals with the theme of regenerative supply chains, with a number of in-depth and educational articles, including:

Promoting Local Food
BY MARTY TRAVIS
Strengthening the regenerative supply chain through a new USDA grant program.

Moving Toward Adaptive Governance
BY JULIE DAVENSON & JULIE SNOREK
Three operations that have helped create fair and regenerative supply chains.

Mutual Admiration
BY DOUG FINE
What vegetable growers can learn from hemp/cannabis farmers, and vice versa.

…. AND MORE!

Buy the print version of September 2023 issue here, the digital version here, or subscribe here to get the magazine delivered to you monthly.

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At the 5^th Annual AcresUSA Healthy Soil Summit, held last week in Monterey CA., we had a great crowd of folks on hand ready to share and learn from our amazing speakers and from each other.  The conference and trade show offered a range of perspectives and encouraging case studies to support and reach everyone no matter where they are on their soil health journey.

Some attendees started the summit with an optional farm tour to the Pinnacle Organically Grown operation in Hollister and the Paicines Ranch nearby.

At Pinnacle, we toured the fields with Phil Foster who, with his wife Katherine, grows a diverse range of fruits and vegetables on farms in Hollister and San Juan Batista. We learned that Pinnacle operations have been certified organic for more than 3 decades. The Fosters have been at the forefront of implementing a wide range of regenerative agricultural practices in California, and they conduct many on-farm research trials to test alternative cropping and minimal/no-till strategies.  They plant to attract beneficial insects throughout the fields, widely utilize water saving techniques, run equipment on biodiesel and even implement production-scale composting.

At Paicines, we met the team for an overview of their philosophy toward the management of this historic 7,600 acre ranch, which is now an educational center for regenerative agriculture. Paicines Ranch is pioneering agro-ecological solutions to regenerate the landscape through a biologically-oriented approach to farming.

The team at Paicines is managing a very diverse and inherently complex integrated cropping and livestock system to produce 100% grass-fed-and-finished lamb and beef, as well as pastured pork, turkey and eggs.  They grow organic grain, as well as organic grapes in a polyculture vineyard that is designed to be managed by sheep. In all areas, they are making changes to move toward more perennial systems, more complexity, and more diversity, and they conduct in-house research to continually guide their practices.

Back at the hotel, we started the conference off with remarks from David Knaus from Apical Crop Science, who encouraged everyone to adopt a systems approach to soil health problem solving. He was followed by a lively conversation between Steve Becker and Dennis Warnecke, from Tainio Biologicals, who traded quips and memories as they gave the audience a tour of the wide range of field conditions they’ve seen and helped producers tackle over the years.

AcresUSA announced the relaunch of our long running podcast, Tractor Time, now with a new host: the Executive Director of the Quivira Coalition, Sarah Wentzel-Fisher. Upcoming not to missed conversations include interviews with Kelly Mullville who designed the extraordinary vineyards of Paicines Ranch, Tim Vos of the Southwest Grain Collaborative and Mollie Engelhart, the California chef who with her chef-husband Elias Sosa own and operate the certified organic Sow a Heart Farm.

The first day of the conference continued with a presentation by Gus Plamann, from Biome Makers, who offered the audience a deep dive into building biodiversity above and below the ground. Gus interprets biological soil test results and educates growers to help them optimize regenerative management practices and better understand how agricultural inputs impact soil health.  He discussed how newly available analytic techniques can be utilized to tailor biological input strategies designed to address specific field conditions and grower objectives.

David Knaus then came back to give us his take on “reading your soil” and shared his perspective on some of the challenges our society is facing and his vision for how we can come together to tackle these challenges. At the top of the list David mentioned the risks of tribalism and of incivility, a theme that was reinforced the next day by our keynote speaker Ray Archuletta.

The second day of the summit started with a great panel discussion moderated by Sarah Day Levesque, Managing Director of RFSI – Regenerative Food Systems Investment – and featured Gus Plamann of Biome Makers and Laura Decker, of Prolific Earth Sciences. The conversation when into some detail about intentional use of soil tests and the importance of limiting the variable when testing – ie don’t change both the location and the season when you are testing.

After the panel discussion, we heard a great talk from Dr. Yadi Wang. He shared his Arizona story of farming with cover crops as a strategy to fight desertification and rehabilitate abandoned farm land. We also saw a very cool owl box and learned how to build it.

Our key note presentation of the conference was from Ray Archuletta, who challenged us to really understand the critical role of the water cycle in regulating our planet’s climate.  Ray offered us an inspiring vision of how regenerative agricultural production can help each of us make a difference to the earth – starting at the local level with the all important cover crops that Ray usefully has re-christened “service crops.”

Following Ray – which was not an easy spot to be in – we heard from Christie Apple from Timac Agro USA, who is known as CropScout Christie and who gave us a great roadmap for how to think about working with product manufacturers. She outlined questions to ask yourself and the sales people before you decide to buy any input.

Our Lunch & Learn opportunity gave everyone a chance to move around and join a conversation in one of these six key subjects:

1. Nitrogen Use Effectiveness
2. Soil Testing
3. Regenerative Fertility
4. Soil Biology
5. Soil Amendments
6. Plan Nutrition

Takeaways from the lunchtime discussion included the importance of community; the fact that adaptation takes time and we need to support traditional growers as they make their way along the path; and the evidence for regenerative practices as a profitable strategy for producers.

Jim Pingrey (JRP Crop Consulting and TEP, Inc) jump-started the afternoon by drawing out that last lunchtime point about the profitability of implementing regenerative strategies. He walked us through some great case studies that he’s been involved with over the years, illustrating how these strategies can be profitable, with high yields and happy producers.

Our final panel of the conference discussed the importance of timing and selectivity: utilizing the right biostimulants and the right innoculants at the right times.  Our speakers were Justin Wylie (Wylie Farms), Jason Hobson ( AEA) , Jim PIngrey, Jorge Camacho (Baja Agra International) and Christie Apple and they focused on how to think critically about biological inputs and target specific problems to find the keys that can unlock growth and profitability.

We closed with fun give aways including a Yeti filled with something delicious to drink, a $100 gas card and a $100 certificate for books at the AcreUSA bookstore. See you next year!

Catch us in Covington this December!

Every year, the Eco-Ag Conference & Trade Show sets a new standard for innovative and practical learning in modern agriculture. Each moment of programming is thoughtfully curated to provide useful, practical and measurable information and connections that you can apply to your operation. Join us for the main conference and trade show on Dec. 6-7 or decide to come early for one of our incredible full-day Eco-Ag U intensive workshops… either way you can expect a fulfilling experience that will include: 

1. Exceptional learning from leading farmers, agronomists, and others who are pioneering a new way to farm ecologically and economically. 

2. Engagement with innovative companies building tools and services to help you surpass your goals.

3. Connecting with your peers who are also seeking to chart a new path forward for their operations and with experienced growers and agronomists who have valuable lessons learned and are ready to share. 

Register Today!

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Our September 2023 Issue focuses on the theme of regenerative supply chains. It has already arrived in subscriber mailboxes, and is also available for individual purchase at our bookstore in both physical and digital formats.

Physical Issue | Digital Copy

Check out our September 2023 table of contents – and subscribe here to get AcresUSA magazine delivered to you monthly!

This month’s cover

FEATURES 

Promoting Local Food
BY MARTY TRAVIS
Strengthening the regenerative supply chain through a new USDA grant program.

Moving Toward Adaptive Governance
BY JULIE DAVENSON & JULIE SNOREK
Three operations that have helped create fair and regenerative supply chains.

Mutual Admiration
BY DOUG FINE
What vegetable growers can learn from hemp/cannabis farmers, and vice versa.

Perennial Turnings
BY KYLE HOLTON
Changing the way we think in order to advance agriculture.

Soil That Connects Us
BY DANI KUSNER & NASHA WINTERS
Taking steps towards greater soil—and human—health. from hemp/cannabis farmers, and vice versa.

DEPARTMENTS

VIEW FROM THE COUNTRY
Monthly musings from AcresUSA’s editor.

OPINION

Time to Leave Carbon Markets Behind- Instead, let’s build a new way for farmers and ranchers to benefit from good soil management. 
BY RYAN SLABAUGH

ECO-UPDATE News in brief on developments in agronomic science. 

REGEN AGRONOMY  
My BIG4- P, Ca and Si— plus carbon. BY JIM PINGREY

REGEN ECONOMICS 
Funding On-Farm Research- Why and how to apply for a farmer-led research grant. BY KIRSTEN SIMMONS

INTERVIEW
Asking the Right Questions- Supply chain expert Ian Chamberlain talks about scale, definitions and what issues the regenerative movement should be contemplating. 

REVIEWS

BOOKSTORE

MARKETPLACE

CLASSIFIEDS

ECO-MEETINGS

ECO-GRAPHIC

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Original Price: $24.00
Book of the Month Price: $19.25 – Buy it now!

About the Book

An Acres U.S.A. Classic!

Dung beetles have always been nature’s greatest recyclers — in a way, they were the first organic farmers. They were also the first casualties of industrial farming. As farmers rediscover the many benefits of grass-based livestock production, dung beetles are given a solid shot at reestablishing their rightful place on the farm and ranch.

Charles Walters digs deep into modern science and ancient history, traditional folklore and the best practical advice to resurrect the lowly dung beetle, exposing farmers and ranchers — and anyone with a desire to work more closely with nature — to this amazing creature. Meet the world’s leading scientists and farmer/researchers who have dedicated years to understanding the roles, actions and value of dung beetles in bringing a grazing operation into compliance with nature’s laws, and then harvest the profits. Anyone interested in organic forms of farming will be enchanted by the intriguing tale of the dung beetle.

About the Author

Charles Walters was the son of a Kansas farmer and grew up during the end of the Dust Bowl. His love of farming lead to him joining and working for the National Farmer’s Organization (NFO), a group dedicated to the idea of using collective bargaining to obtain a better deal for the family farmer. Eventually, frustrated with the NFO’s bureaucracy, he founded his own publication–Acres U.S.A. Walters single-handedly started the company, and used it to publish dozens of books and to use his magazine to inform the world about eco-philosophy. He eventually turned over day-to-day operations to his son, but remained an active part of Acres until his death in 2009.

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Our August 2023 issue focuses on the theme of healthy soils. It has already arrived in subscriber mailboxes, and is also available for individual purchase at our bookstore in both physical and digital formats.

Physical Issue | Digital Copy

Check out our August 2023 table of contents – and subscribe here to get AcresUSA magazine delivered to you monthly!

This month’s cover

FEATURES

Soil Energetics: An Introduction
BY ALLEN PHILO, KEN WACHA & JERRY HATFIELD
The flow of energy through soil determines whether it will build or degrade. 

In Memorium: David Brandt
BY RON NICHOLS & ALLEN WILLIAMS
A true soil health and regenerative farming pioneer.

The Magic of Foliar Feeding
BY NIGEL PALMER
A short-term mineralization strategy.

Honoring The Soil
BY SERGIO DABDOUB
My journey of listening to and rediscovering nature.

DEPARTMENTS

VIEW FROM THE COUNTRY
Monthly musings from AcresUSA’s editor.

OPINION

Regulating Plant Biostimulants- Regenerative farmers should support the Plant Biostimulant Act, which will bring clarity to the use and sale of these beneficial products.
BY RUSSEL TAYLOR

ECO-UPDATE News in brief on developments in agronomic science. 

REGEN AGRONOMY  
Understanding Sap- Advantages and disadvantages of sap testing. BY JIM PINGREY

REGEN ECONOMICS 
The Good, The Bad and the Way Forward- The market is signaling growing demand for food grown regeneratively. BY SARAH DAY LEVESQUE

INTERVIEW
Fifty Years of Hands-On Agronomy- Neal Kinsey shares wisdom from his decades of in-field experience and the principles he learned from Dr. William Albrecht. 

REVIEWS

BOOKSTORE

MARKETPLACE

CLASSIFIEDS

ECO-MEETINGS

ECO-GRAPHIC

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Here is a list of resources related to whatever you need to learn most about soil health, from free articles to our most recent issue of Acres U.S.A. magazine.

Best Books on Soil Health

There are hundreds of titles on soil health! Each region’s soil is different, but there are some basic elements that will be the same everywhere. Here’s a list of bestselling healthy soil books from our Soils Collection at the Acres U.S.A. Bookstore:

• Secret’s of Soil Health by Erhard Hennig
• Healthy Soils, Sick Soils by Margareth Sekera
• Humusphere by Herwig Pommeresche
• The Farm as Ecosystem by Jerry Brunetti
• From the Soil Up Donald L. Schriefer

Great news this month! The August “Healthy Soil” Book Sale features deep discounts on items throughout the AcresUSA Bookstore.

Take some time to browse the Acres U.S.A. Bookstore this month and find the right titles on soil health – as well as farm management, livestock, healthy food, and more!

Free Articles on Soil Health

Our EcoFarmingDaily.com website is a free resource for all kinds of in-depth articles, interviews and how-to’s on regenerative agriculture. Here are a few popular articles focused on healthy soils:

• Keys to Composting for Increased Soil Health by Bryan O’Hara
• Tillage for Healthy Soil by Donald L. Schriefer
• Soil pH: Making Adjustments to Boost Fertility by Bill McKibben
• Humus: What is it and How is it Formed? by Erhard Hennig
• Find hundreds more articles in the Build Soil section of the Eco-Farming Daily website

Learn in Person

What better way to learn about soil health than to walk through a regenerative farmer’s fields? That’s exactly what attendees of the 2023 On-Farm Intensive event will be on Aug. 15-16. Gary Zimmer and his daughter Leilani Zimmer Durand will share their decades of experience growing regeneratively and biologically while walking attendees through their fields at Otter Creek Organic Farm in Lone Rock, Wisconsin.

From fertilizer bays to in-field compost mixing to carbon storage to soil testing, they will demonstrate the parts of their growing system that have made their farm a showpiece for how to adapt in today’s rapidly changing agriculture industry. Plus, attendees will walk a new 180-acre property they are just starting to transition to regenerative practices, and learn from special guests they bring in every year. 

On-Farm Intensive with Zimmer Ag
Aug. 15-16, 2022
Lone Rock, Wisconsin
Learn more at OnFarm.AcresUSA.com.

And join us August 22–23 for the 2023 Healthy Soil Summit in Monterey Bay, CA!

Want to increase the health and productivity of your soil and crops beyond what you even thought possible? If so, the Healthy Soil Summit is for you.

The Healthy Soil Summit includes relevant, science-based sessions from top soil health innovators, scientists, and agronomists, roundtable discussions, and networking with others that prioritize soil health. 

This is a wonderful opportunity to learn about all of the on-farm trials, equipment, and years of challenges and breakthroughs that contribute to launching you further along your soil health journey.

2023 Healthy Soil Summit
Aug. 23-24, 2022
Seaside (Monteray Bay), CA
Learn more at soil.acresusa.com

Read the August 2023 Issue

The August 2023 issue of AcresUSA magazine deals with the theme of healthy soils, with a number of in-depth and educational articles, including:

Soil Energetics: An Introduction
BY ALLEN PHILO, KEN WACHA & JERRY HATFIELD
The flow of energy through soil determines whether it will build or degrade. 

In Memorium: David Brandt
BY RON NICHOLS & ALLEN WILLIAMS
A true soil health and regenerative farming pioneer.

The Magic of Foliar Feeding
BY NIGEL PALMER
A short-term mineralization strategy.

…. AND MORE!

Buy the print version of August 2023 issue here, the digital version here, or subscribe here to get the magazine delivered to you monthly.

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As Dr. Paul’s publisher for nearly two decades, we were privileged to know and work with this wonderful teacher and leader in advancing organic practices in livestock and dairy production.

Dr. Paul was the very deserved recipient of the Acres U.S.A. Eco-Ag Achievement Award in 2019.

He reached a wide range of readers with his books Alternative Treatments for Ruminant Animals and Dr. Paul Dettloff’s Complete Guide to Raising Animals Organically, and he helped improve the lives of countless farmers and their animals.

You can read more about Dr. Dettloff’s incredible life in his official obituary online.

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Here is a list of resources related to whatever you need to learn most about plant nutrition for pest management, from free articles to our most recent issue of AcresUSA magazine.

Read Free Articles

Our EcoFarmingDaily.com website is a free resource for all kinds of in-depth articles, interviews and how-to’s on regenerative agriculture. Here are a few plant nutrition-specific articles to get started:

• “Built-In” Pest Management an excerpt from the book  A New Farm Language by W. Joe Lewis.
• Towards Natural Crop Nutrition an excerpt from the book Fertility Pastures by Newman Turner
• Common Forage Pests and Problems by Dr. Harold Willis
• Insect Damage an excerpt from the book The Non-Toxic Farming Handbook  by Philip Wheeler and Ronald Ward.

Best Books on Plant Nutrition for Pest Management

• Eco-Farm by Charles Walters – a complete education in soils, crops, and weed and insect control.
• Weeds: Control Without Poisons by Charles Walters – provides specifics on a hundred weeds, why they grow, what soil conditions spur them on or stop them, what they say about your soil, and how to control them without the obscene presence of poisons. 
• Mineral Nutrition and Plant Disease by Don Huber – examines how mineral nutrition affects plant disease.

Find more books on plant nutrition for pest management at the AcresUSA Bookstore in the Weed & Pest Control Collection

Learn in Person

There is no better way to delve deeper into plant nutrition than at our 2023 Healthy Soil Summit! No matter what you grow, from nuts to orchards to cash crops to pasture, our two days of workshops and keynotes — led by real practitioners — teach useful tactics you can implement immediately. Here are just a few of the program highlights:

• Reading Your Soil: Mineral Nutrition by David Knaus
• Strategic Case Study: Building Biodiversity Above and Below Ground by Meri Lillia Mullins
• Regenerative Agriculture: The Power of Biomimicry and Bio-communication by Ray Archuleta
• And much more!

Learn more here!

Read the July 2023 Issue

The July 2023 issue of AcresUSA magazine deals with the theme of plant nutrition for pest management with a number of in-depth and educational articles.

To Stress or Not to Stress?
BY GARY REDDING 
Optimal nutrition produces better results than intentionally induced stress.

Destressing the Stressors
BY DON HUBER
We can manage plant disease by managing plant nutrition.

Managing Change
BY GARY ZIMMER
Soil health management is a farm management decision. 

…. AND MORE!

Buy the print version of July 2023 here, the digital version here, or subscribe here to get the magazine delivered to you monthly.

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