Cottingham Farm

06/19/2026

Featuring collagen-rich pork shank with recipes, and first tomatoes! Saturday morning at the farm!

06/15/2026

The buffer strips designed and installed
around Cottingham Farm fields by Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage umpteen years ago are still looking great! Common milkweed, bushclover, big bluestem, tick-trefoil, goldenrod, Indian h**p, and tall fescue.

06/15/2026

Farms are Speaking Up! Will the Public At Large Take Note?

Readers respond to a guest essay and a column by Nicholas Kristof about the meat industry.

06/06/2026

Spring veggies are still being harvested- broccoli, cauliflower, 3 cabbage varieties, curly and dino kale, chard, purple and green kohlrabi, garlic scapes, scallions, beets, carrots, 4 var. radishes. Spring cherries and cherry tomatoes are a little late but are starting to be harvested in a couple of days. Eggs for the early birds. Beautiful organic-fed heritage pastured pork cuts for the grill (ribs, chops, sausages), for the pot (bone-in and boneless roasts and meaty shanks) and for the pan (bacon and ham steaks). Ask about our stew birds (available on-farm). See you at the market or at the farm this morning!

05/15/2026

It’s not just in Iowa. If you go organic, you can eat well and do good!

🚨 Farm Chemicals Are Poisoning Our Water—And Our Health 🚨
A controversial new report from Iowa confirms what many have long feared: the state’s waterways are contaminated with dangerously high levels of farm chemicals—nitrates, glyphosate, atrazine, and more. The result? Soaring cancer rates and a growing public health crisis.

Iowa now has the second-highest cancer rate in the U.S., and the use of toxic pesticides continues to rise—impacting not just ecosystems, but entire communities. It’s time to demand change.

🛑 TAKE ACTION:
👉 Tell your state to ban glyphosate, not bail out Bayer!
https://advocacy.organicconsumers.org/page/79944/action/1
👉 Urge your legislator to support a ban on bee-killing neonicotinoids!
https://advocacy.organicconsumers.org/page/63589/action/1

05/14/2026

The boys will be happy with this freshening rain.

05/13/2026

The warm-season grass buffers are full of sweet grass and milkweed following a once every three year mow-down

05/12/2026

Wondering if “leaders” are making all these upside down decisions and destroying our planet because of all the chlorpyrifos they have ingested in their food this last quarter century.

The U.S. Forest Service isn’t managing forests anymore. It’s running a timber operation and poisoning everything else to do it.

A yearlong investigation by Mother Jones found that the Forest Service and private logging companies are systematically spraying thousands of acres of national forest with glyphosate (Roundup) to kill off native shrubs and wildflowers that compete with commercially valuable trees like Douglas firs and sugar pines.

After wildfires, forests naturally rebound with diverse vegetation and wildlife. What’s replacing that recovery is rows of industrial saplings surrounded by silence. No insects, birds, or flowers. It’s just dead zones.

Glyphosate application in California’s forests has quintupled over the last two decades in one year 266,000 pounds were sprayed a record. The World Health Organization classifies glyphosate as a carcinogen. The Forest Service is using it at industrial scale, on public land, to benefit private timber interests.

This is what “multiple use management” looks like when timber wins every time. Ecological health, wildlife habitat, native plant communities all of it gets written off as competition.

05/09/2026

Come on out this morning for some springy organic greens and roots and a single slice of fresh ham (organic-fed, pastured and heritage), pounded and schnitzled into dinner for a small army!