Ecdysis Blog

August 29, 2021 Connecting the dots Dr. Jonathan Lundgren Rains have finally come to Blue Dasher Farm, and life here is responding. We...

June 20, 2021 Dr. Jonathan Lundgren I appreciate those that try new things and fail more than experts that don’t. I have patience and...

Dr. Ryan Schmid 5-28-21 Recently I read a study that found poor air quality from animal production results in 17,900 deaths annually in...

By: Dr. Kelton Welch April 28, 2021 Here at Ecdysis, we love bugs! For every insect that’s a pest, there are over a thousand that are...

April 17, 2021 Dr. Jonathan Lundgren I don’t think I would be as good a farmer (or a scientist, for that matter), if I didn’t have...

Dr. Mike Bredeson Agroecologist- Ecdysis Foundation 4-2-21 Do you have a sweet tooth? If so, thank a plant! Plants have the...

12/26/20 Dr. Jonathan Lundgren Director of Ecdysis Foundation Blue Dasher Farm Estelline, South Dakota I recently stared at a fork in the...

By: Dr. Jonathan Lundgren November 26, 2020 I recently turned 45 years old. If asked in other context, I would not remark that this...

May 23, 2020 Dr. Jonathan Lundgren This morning broke with the flock of sheep announcing their presence outside of our bedroom window....

May 9, 2020 Dr. Jonathan Lundgren Spring pushes the claws of winter from the land, and slowly green replaces brown on the landscape. The...

4-28-2020 Mike Bredeson PhD. Research ecologist Ecdysis Foundation How have you been lately? Bored, isolated? Many of us are feeling this...

4-28-2020 Dr. Ryan Schmid Growing up, I learned one important lesson in life: always look for the positives in bad situations. It helped...

April 25, 2020 By Dr. Jonathan Lundgren Director of Ecdysis Foundation When you were growing up, how often did you have to clean your...

By Dr. Michael Bredeson, Ecdysis Research Scientist 04/23/2020 We can’t hope to fight off an illness or rebuild an economy without being...

Dr. Ryan Schmid 04/05/2020 My, how our daily lives have changed since Covid-19 reached America. All of us have experienced moments when...

April 5, 2020 Dr. Jonathan Lundgren Like many, I am thinking about social isolation right now. And asking the question: What does society...

September 4, 2019 Dr. Jonathan Lundgren A tragedy on six legs. In 2014, I was asked to present for the American Honey Producer’s meeting...

Dr. Jonathan Lundgren July 28, 2019 Recently, I read a book called From the Hidewood (Robert Amerson 1996), about the Hidewood Valley...

A Viable Alternative to the Myth of Pesticides It is getting more and more expensive to produce food these days. You don’t have to listen...

2-27-2019 Dr. Jonathan Lundgren Our planet faces numerous large scale and inter-related problems, including climate change1, 2, large...