50th Anniversary: A Special May Issue of Acres U.S.A. Magazine is Now Available

Celebrate our 50th anniversary of publishing all year long with collector covers and special “From the Vault” content featuring interviews with experts that stand the test of time. Established in 1971, Acres U.S.A. magazine has never missed a month in our 50-year history. 

The latest issue of Acres U.S.A. magazine, #599 in our series, is now available for free to subscribers and in our bookstore for $6.00. 

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Features include:

Permanent Soil Health
BY MARK SHEPARD
Developing a water-efficient landscape is key to permaculture systems. 

Every Drop Counts
BY MARY ANN LIESER
An overview of water management.

Radical Ecologist
BY JILL HENDERSON
Nance Klehm fuses art and agriculture with her urban-rural visions of permaculture.

Fungi at a Party
BY ALLIE HYMAS
Mycology as a mode of being. 

Fertility or Fatality?
BY ANNELIESE ABBOT
The controversy over fixed nitrogen.

DEPARTMENTS

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

OPINION: Beaver and Bison
BY GLENN ELZINGA
The basis of ranching must be a deep understanding of how wild landscapes function.  

ECO-UPDATE
News in brief from around the world on developments in food and farming.

TRANSITIONING: California Dreaming
BY ARIANNA BOZZOLO
Making an asset work for organic.

INTERVIEW: Tom Philpott
We talk with investigative journalist Tom Philpott about our fragile food system and his new book, Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It.

FROM THE VAULT: Bill Mollison
A 1996 interview with the visionary behind the modern permaculture movement.

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ECO-MEETINGS
We let you know when and where exciting eco-farming events are happening.

MEET AN ECO-FARMER
Get to know fellow innovative farmers putting ecologically correct production principles to work, resulting in profitable, sustainable operations.

This issues’s collectible cover: