Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Mexico border, California’s Imperial Valley is both a desert and an agricultural wonder. Yet carrots, cauliflower, sweet onions, honeydew, broccoli, and alfalfa all grow here, incongruous crops that spread across half a million acres of cultivated land. Ronald Leimgruber farms 3,500 of those acres. Just north of the U.S.-Mexico

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 5, 2024

Helmy Abouleish is the CEO of SEKEM , a sustainable development initiative that has transformed desert into vitally productive agricultural land in Egypt through biodynamic and organic agricultural principles. We believe organic agriculture is a crucial part of the solution.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Photo credit: USDA EDITOR’S NOTE: On October 9, 2024, NSAC released Stewarding Success: CSP Under the 2018 Farm Bill , a comprehensive analysis of the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) over the course of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill). What is the Conservation Stewardship Program?

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Sprouting deep within the verdant pleats of Oʻahu’s Koʻolau Mountains, Heʻeia stream winds through Kakoʻo ʻOʻiwi , a non-profit organization centered on a six-acre taro farm, before emptying into the wide mouth of Kane‘ohe Bay. As stewards of both island culture and terrain, “we’re restoring pono—restoring balance to the land,” says Shultz.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

If the pawpaw’s greatest admirers have their way, it will also show the way forward for a localized approach to agriculture that operates outside of the mass-produced mainstream. Photo credit: Andrew Leahy, Horn Farm Center) Pawpaw’s Agricultural and Ecological Benefits The pawpaw is not only a part of Appalachian heritage.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

These organizations are supporting local food producers and regional economies, offering educational resources and agricultural training, and working to ensure that their neighbors don’t go hungry. They also bring local government leaders together to develop plans that integrate urban agriculture into city planning processes.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

They farm on 130 acres of the land on which her father and grandfather had raised hogs. She and Rafkin had a goal of adding diversity and value to her family’s farm through organic agriculture, but they found few organic farmers in the area at the time and none that were implementing agroforestry.

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Caff

APRIL 22, 2021

Today, Representative Chellie Pingree (D-ME-1) and Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM) introduced the Agriculture Resilience Act (ARA) in Congress, outlining a farmer-focused, research-driven path to net zero agriculture. All of these changes will help California’s diverse agriculture.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

Since the resurgence of regenerative agriculture, farming has never been sexier. But what does regenerative agriculture mean? It’s official: Regenerative agriculture has been hijacked. This distinction,” says Newton, “raises interesting implications about how you define regenerative agriculture.”

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Embry’s focus on urban agriculture and food justice in Detroit drew a global audience, where he hosted audiences include the British Parliament, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, and distinguished personalities such as Danny Glover, David Korten , and Joanna Macy. There were people there from all over the world, interacting together.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 3, 2024

Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) fledgling Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production, which Congress has been shorting since it was established. Of special concern is funding for the U.S. A coalition of groups have been pushing to change that in the upcoming farm bill. “We In New York City, for example, the only U.S.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Setting clear, measurable goals helps you develop a strategic plan, prioritize investments, and make informed decisions to maximize your land's potential while preserving its ecological balance. Look into the local agricultural community, markets, accessibility, and infrastructure. Determine your budget and financial resources.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

On the back 16 acres of Walla Walla Community College, 30 Red Angus cows stand munching on hairy vetch, ryegrass and other cover crops that were planted to help restore the soil. Walla Walla Community College’s program may be one of the most extensive culinary-agriculture curriculums, but there are others.

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Daily Yonder

MAY 14, 2024

The hard hat is a minor inconvenience for Sweetland, but is emblematic of a broader question that researchers have been studying on this farm: How can agricultural lands support both crops and solar panels without hurting the other’s bottom line? Massachusetts offers qualifying agrivoltaics projects a base compensation rate of $0.14

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

As a researcher of urban agriculture, I was shocked to see a recent news article bearing the headline “ Food from urban agriculture has a carbon footprint six times larger than conventional produce, study shows.” Back up a step: What is urban agriculture? Oxford Tract research farm at UC Berkeley.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

During the last few years of the Small Farm Innovation Challenge hosted by Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF), a remarkable trio of women—Cole Bush, Lindsey Lusher Shute, and Rachel Greathouse—emerged as leaders in advancing agricultural technology. Lindsey’s contributions to sustainable agriculture have not gone unnoticed.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth post in a multi-part blog series analyzing the Farm Food and National Security Act of 2024 (FFNSA), which was reported out of the House Agriculture Committee on Friday, May 24. public, across party lines, is concerned about the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food production.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Virtual fencing is gaining traction in American agriculture because it can save farmers time and money. When farmers are able to control how, where, and when their animals move between pastures, they can more easily accomplish ecological goals that might include increasing soil carbon, reducing water pollution, or incorporating trees.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Climate Change Resource Center recognizes agroforestry, the intentional integration of trees and shrubs into agricultural practices, as a promising option to weave productivity and profitability into sustainable and resilient farming systems. and Champaign, Ill.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Raised beds at Dallas Half Acre Farm. The governance and economics of agriculture, on and off-farm sustainability, systemic food waste, concerning environmental crises, and the deep importance of nutrient-dense food for both individual and population health, are a few of many urgent issues pertaining to food systems today.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Not only is land access a critical barrier to new farmers, it’s also something that has been exacerbated by patterns of discrimination by the USDA and agricultural lenders. When he connected with Viva Farms and began its Practicum in Sustainable Agriculture , it gave him the tools to start his own business.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 6, 2023

We were in the parking lot of Island Center Forest, a 440-acre wooded park home to miles of hiking trails and one large pond where birdwatchers flock. Later, his focus shifted to urban ecology. By the end of the decade, an estimated 300 acres of western Washington were dedicated to holly. He chose St.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The White Oak Initiative , a group of researchers, government agencies and industry insiders dedicated to conservation, estimates that there are more than 100 million acres of white oak across the US, and roughly 75 percent of that is mature. But it’s also incredibly important ecologically. It’s a money-maker for the forestry industry.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Tony Prendergast’s XK Bar Ranch sits slightly south of Crawford, Colorado, near the Smith Fork of the North Fork of the Gunnison River on the southern edge of the agriculturally rich North Fork Valley. He purchases weaned calves and finishes most of them on an 80-acre pasture on the ranch. The XK Bar is not a cow/calf outfit.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

He’s still in the livestock business—cows, chickens, and goats all graze across Good Wheel’s 42 acres. Increasingly, it also means projects that work with very large farms to implement practices such as cover cropping and reduced tillage on tens of thousands of acres of Midwestern corn and soy.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Goldfarb spoke with Modern Farmer about his new book, how roads have impacted animals and agriculture and where we might go from here. Your book talks a lot about “road ecology.” A lot of road ecology is about why roadkill happens and what its effects on populations are and how to prevent it. What is that? Author Ben Goldfarb.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. Darrel Franson, a Missouri rancher who remembers the endophyte-free fescue debacle, nevertheless decided to take the risk, converting his 126 acres to friendly fescue.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The farm grows seasonal fruits and vegetables on 10 acres in the semi-arid, unincorporated area of Pauma Valley in central San Diego County, on land it rents from the Pauma Band of Luiseño Indians; they partnered with the Luiseño to create a “carbon sink demonstration farm.” Ellee Igoe and Hernan Cavazos. or ‘Are you able to grow that?’

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The increased profit of corn has meant more corn is grown which has resulted in a 5% increase in erosion and nutrient leaking into public waters as acres are converted from perennial management or kept in row crops. about 300,000 acres from 2002 to 2014. In the US we are cultivating fewer and fewer acres each and every year.

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The Equation

MAY 15, 2023

And the agriculture industry, which uses an outsize amount of California’s water and has literally changed the state’s landscape, needs to change and adapt, fast. Agriculture is the largest user of water in the western states. What can farmers do to avoid weather “whiplash”?

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 8, 2024

Witt’s home in South Egremont is a scant mile from Indian Line Farm, the nation’s first CSA; together, the pair of plots represents 28 total acres stemming from another of Witt’s passion projects. Conservation land trusts can play a key role in developing land-use plans with ecological considerations.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Paraquat, the Deadliest Chemical in US Agriculture, Goes on Trial Amid lawsuits filed by thousands of farmers linking the herbicide to Parkinson’s disease, the EPA is reconsidering its analysis of paraquat’s risks. Here are some of our best farming and farm bill reporting this year. Farm Credit Can Make or Break Farms.

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Sustainable Harvest International

JULY 19, 2022

Juan Francisco Segura of the El Limón community in Panama is one of over 3,000 farmers who have partnered with SHI since 1997 to transform and heal their land through agriculture. Chemical-dependent agriculture is a fossil fuel hungry industry and contributes disproportionately to making our planet unlivable. Among the 12.6

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Data from other presenters showed that right now 30 percent of the world’s agricultural soils are degraded and that is expected to increase to 90 percent by 2050. Commodity productivity per acre is down across the board, driving prices up. The sense among attendees was that chemical, industrialized models are running out of steam.

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Share Food Program

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

acres in Southwest Philadelphia, produces over 15,000 pounds of food per year using natural agricultural practices, and is powered by paid high school interns working alongside community elders, neighbors and volunteers. “At is an outspoken defender of civil rights and equality, mainly in the world of agriculture / farming.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Wild Weather Threatens Farm Viability Although the IRA funds are directed at greenhouse gas mitigation, many forms of agricultural climate mitigation also increase farm resilience. Some selections can increase yields and profits per acre. Some of the highest impact comes from agroforestry practices.

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Civil Eats

JULY 15, 2024

Its quarter-acre lot houses custom-built tool sheds and water pumps, solar panels for charging phones and e-bikes, and a motorized sifter designed by Benn. BK Rot is part of a diverse ecology of community compost organizations throughout New York City. I actually like the smell,” Gross said during a break from work.

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