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How mushrooms can prevent megafires

Food Environment and Reporting Network

In response, the federal government has committed nearly $5 billion in the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to thinning forests on about 50 million Western acres over the next 10 years. We do hundreds to thousands of acres of fire mitigation a year,” Ravage said. He hopes to show that fungi can do it better.

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A Mid-Scale Anaerobic Biodigester Creates On-Farm Renewable Energy

ATTRA

The farm is a beautiful certified organic working farm situated on 90 acres in the south-central part of the state where they grow vegetables and raise beef, lamb, and layers. This biodigester project comes after years of biofuel research and experimentation by Steiman at the college.

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Managing ‘Brown Gold:’ the Challenges—and Opportunities—of Spent Substrate

Civil Eats

It’s also one with many potential uses ; it can be used as compost, as a means of decontaminating soil, as biofuel, and simply for growing more mushrooms. Stempel currently takes most of the material to a nearby compost facility, but local farms, gardeners, and florists also take a portion. It wasn’t a tough sell. In the U.S.,

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Almonds are Under Threat. The Key to Saving Them Could Be in the Soil

Modern Farmer

As Brian Paddock walks through his 12-and-a-half acres of almond trees, he’s taking in everything. Treehouse Almonds sources nuts from roughly 50,000 acres in California’s Central Valley, and Gardiner’s family farm provides about 20,000 of them. The shells are used in cosmetics, as bedding for livestock and in biofuels.

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