Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2024

He and 100 caprine teammates can clear about an acre a day. “I Founded in 2020, Happy Goat farm sits on a 2,000-acre property in Mariposa County, near Yosemite National Park. That amounts to approximately 200 acres in addition to the 220 acres the goats take on each year back at the farm. Photo by Craig Kohlruss.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Two weeks after moving into their dream homestead on 40 acres, they learned that the surrounding 3,200 acres and another 5,000 acres just down the road were leased for solar farms. What would you do if your homestead were suddenly surrounded by 8,000 acres of solar farm? You can’t eat electricity.

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Acre Farmland Compost Farming 120

Civil Eats

MARCH 19, 2024

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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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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Organic Farming Research

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Tiffany Stanley runs A Different Chick Farm, a Certified Organic family farm on just under 6 acres in Johnson City, Tennessee. She is participating in OFRF's Farmer Led Trials (FLT) Program to explore options for making on-farm compost to reduce input needs and increase fertility on her farm.

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Below is a basic diagram showing how carbon cycles through a corn field yielding around 200 bu/acre. of carbon per acre in the top two feet of soil. of carbon per acre annually. Carbon flow estimates for a 200 bu/acre corn crop. Now let’s focus on how that carbon moves though agroecosystems at the field scale.

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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. Photos courtesy of Wendy Johnson) To date, Johnson has planted 6,000 trees on 20 acres of their fields, with plans to double the number of trees. Johnson felt called back to the land in 2010 after living in California for 18 years.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 6, 2023

I knew that the US’s 40 million acres of lawns contribute to greenhouse gas emissions through consistent mowing and drink up to nine billion gallons of water daily. To build sustainable soil structure with plenty of bacteria, fungi and protozoa, we made compost by processing kitchen scraps in a tumbler.

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Meadow Greenhouse Compost Soil Compaction 117

Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Composting Organic materials including agricultural residue such as corn stalks and rice hulls, weeds, manure, ash from cookstoves and kitchen waste, such as peels and eggshells, join to create rich, life-giving compost. The composting process creates an environment for decomposition. How do family farmers restore soil health?

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A few days later, Valley Center bean farmer Mike Reeske, who donated half an acre of his small farm for this crop, was already betting on which seeds would be the winners in the slow and steady race to find a heritage wheat that will grow—with rainwater only—in San Diego County. Total citrus sales were $146 million. in March 2022.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

acre Niwot Homestead in a suburban yard that belongs to a family she found through Nextdoor. “We She moved on to manage a two-acre cut flower parcel at a large market farm for a couple of years. He steadily grew his business and leased 800 private mountainous acres to graze dry cattle that don’t produce milk.

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Real Estate Farming Farming Acre 117

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 5, 2024

“In Egypt, we have 7 million acres managed by 7 million small-holder farmers, with each one of them having approximately an acre or less, and obviously climate change with the temperature rise and humidity is already affecting us, changing the varieties that we grow.

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Acre Ecology Supply Chain Agriculture 111

The Lunatic Farmer

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As a landowner with hundreds of acres of upland Appalachian hardwoods, I would sit there and watch a bevy of bureaucrats carve off massive pieces for logging in what are known as “below cost” timber sales. But at least the Secretary of the Interior wouldn’t, with the stroke of a pen, be able to give private largesse to millions of acres.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 15, 2024

The inspiration for Urban American Farmer came about eight years ago when Bates began growing food on a quarter acre and selling produce to restaurants. They shared that they “waste less,” making sure to use what they can and “compost the rest.” “If

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

carbon emissions) by another large number (yield per acre), you get a small number of carbon emissions associated with each serving of lettuce, for example. The choice to compare greenhouse gas intensity of soil-based urban agriculture systems with conventional farming systems brings up an inherently unfair comparison.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Critics equate large ventures to indoor agribusiness: Often backed by companies and private investors with little experience in commercial agriculture , some factory-like facilities can span multiple acres and consume vast amounts of energy. acre lot has ample space for the growing business.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 7, 2023

Although the larger agency has historically focused on serving large-scale farmers in rural areas, it has granted more than $50 million since 2020 to build school and community gardens in Hawaii, expand residential composting in Fort Worth, Texas, and add hydroponic production to an urban farm in Dubuque, Iowa, among dozens of other projects.

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Farming Farming Compost Food 98

The Lunatic Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2023

I can think of other things more important than water, like controlling the grazing, putting on compost, but let’s take this sentence at face value and play along. Except I’m sitting here at the desk while we’re dumping about 2 inches of rain a day on 4 acres a day with K-line irrigation pods from New Zealand.

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Pasture Compost Forage Acre 66

Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

We’ve got 150 acres of grain.” They spread out the cost through a fee structure based on either the number of acres on which the equipment is used or the number of hours it is in use. To get [your mulch or compost] spread in a timely manner was really quite impossible,” said Gonzales-Siemens.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund The Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund is a multidisciplinary, cooperative nonprofit ecosystem that aims to regenerate custodial land ownership, ecological stewardship, and food and fiber economies in the American South.

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Cultivation Food Marketing Distribution 105

ATTRA

JANUARY 2, 2024

Salts from added compost, manure, or fertilizers can build up in the rain-free environment of a tunnel and accumulate near the soil surface, affecting crop growth. If compost is used as a soil amendment, using vegetation-based compost instead of composted animal manure can reduce the possibility of salt build-up in the soil.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Cover cropping, composting, and the planting of hedge rows for pollinators are particularly attractive, Ross says. Around 70 percent of producers are growing crops on less than 100 acres of land, Ross says. It’s that below ground storage, above ground storage, using every drop as preciously as we possibly can, and recycling.”

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Food Compost Agriculture Agriculture 64

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 21, 2024

And of course, it’s not like for every PLNT Burger sold, a factory farm gives up five acres of land, or releases a cow from the slaughter line—actually meaningful solutions to the factory meat problem. Nor has eating plant-based meat made a significant impact on beef production, according to a 2023 report.

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Farming Farming Food Compost 138

ATTRA

DECEMBER 6, 2023

To contend with these issues, the project composts the poultry litter and combines it with biochar made from forest and sawmill waste and poultry litter. The second is an abundance of forest and sawmill waste, which releases greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere if left to decompose.

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

You can also add carbon via humic products or compost, but the most efficient route is to let plants do the work for us. Carbon flow estimates for a 200 bu/acre corn crop. What if that same corn crop pulled in 50,000 lb of carbon per acre instead of 30,000? Can you guess what it is?

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Manure Fertilizer Crop Crop Rotation 86

Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Even by just raising three or four acres of tobacco, families could make a respectable return that helped their farm’s economic viability. It’s truly rampant in Tennessee, where some data suggest that over a million acres of farmland will be compromised by development in the next two decades.

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Caff

APRIL 22, 2021

100 million a year would be available for compost infrastructure. “The ARA adopts many strategies pioneered in California” said CAFF Policy Director, Dave Runsten, “such as the Healthy Soils Program, the diversion of organic matter from landfills, and the Alternative Manure Management Program.

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Agriculture Agriculture Manure Compost 52

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 11, 2023

On a sunny afternoon in September 2021, Michael Langford was moving compost with his compact John Deere. The front bucket was half full as he drove the tractor forward on a gentle slope of his 10-acre produce and poultry farm in Greensboro, Georgia. Gerhardt, now 66, farms organic hay on his own 10-acre field in Mohawk, NY.

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Tractor Farming Farming Acre 137

The Lunatic Farmer

MAY 31, 2023

While chickens free ranging on your 1-acre homestead are pretty, seeing the carnage after a predator attack is not. A handful of chickens scratching around a 1-acre place is one of the most vulnerable, high risk things you can imagine. They’ll cover the acre in a couple of hours and your presence and awareness will deter predation.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Rodale Institute , a nonprofit research institution for organic farming, cites that every acre of land farmed with plastic mulch creates upwards of 120 pounds of waste that typically end up in landfill, or otherwise break down into the soil or nearby watersheds. Depending on [those] factors,” she adds,” everything is scalable.”

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Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2024

He mostly grows salad greens across 3 acres of farmland. He steeps the compost like a tea, extracting the microorganisms in water, and then runs it through his irrigation system. In addition to applying compost tea, Robb supports fungal life by creating mulch from wood chips, which the fungi help decompose.

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Farming Farming Crop Agriculture 144

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Further, they have added nearly five acres of prairie strips. Rick Hartlieb, of Castanea Farms in Pennsylvania, has used local and state grant resources to help him plant acres of chestnuts and to shift his farm toward silvopasture. She also employs cover crops, composting, and reduced tillage.

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Pasture Crop Orchard Farming 111

Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

acres of land divided into two fenced in areas, or paddocks. acres of land. They’re also working on adding a composting processing site, neighbor approval pending. “We And we could take 1,000 acres, 10,000 acres, or 1 million acres, and we’d know exactly what to do. Most farmers raise more than one flock.

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Poultry Processing Acre Farming 98

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

acre organic urban farm in the impoverished Englewood community on Chicago’s South Side, was destined for marketplaces within the city’s more affluent communities. Located on 10 acres of land 84 miles southwest of Chicago, it offered a workforce development program for people experiencing housing instability. But when Janelle St.

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Food Farming Farming Distribution 126

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Her goal for the class was to learn how to improve her soil and figure out how to compost. Currently, Purdue grows around 55 varieties, including amaranth, red acre cabbage, red veined sorrel, pea shoots and cilantro flowers. In 2014, a weekend gardening workshop taught by Will Allen of Growing Power changed everything.

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Farming Farming Food Crop 93

UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Although no-till implies not tilling at all, many no-till market gardeners still rely on some form of light tillage to create a seed bed or apply copious amounts of compost as a mulch to create a seed bed. Flail mow and direct seed with a grain drill – This is the best method in a larger-scale commercial garden (1+ acre).

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Crop Cash Crop Seeding Harvester 105

Civil Eats

MARCH 5, 2024

Mountain ranges trap emissions from highway traffic, locomotives, municipal composting facilities, tractors, and burning. An estimated 500,000 to 900,000 acres of irrigated farmland will likely be taken out of production to satisfy state-level groundwater laws by 2040. The people most impacted are more often low-income people of color.”

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