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. But Klemm says he sees a decent harvest even in dry years.

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Grain Seeding Farming Farming 91

Civil Eats

AUGUST 7, 2023

At the top of a gradual slope, Falani Spivey leaned on a shovel as she pointed to several rows of malagueta and Carolina reaper peppers and described the salad greens she planned to plant for fall harvesting. That project is being funded by a second award through the OAIUP’s composting grant program.

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Farming Farming Compost Food 95

The Counter

MAY 17, 2022

The 5,000-acre reservation is nearby, and the Tribe’s Department of Natural Resources does restoration work along Ohop Creek. In 2019 alone, there were 27 million pounds of coho harvested for consumption in the U.S. This land is the ancestral home to the Nisqually Tribe, which currently has more than 650 enrolled members.

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Compost Ecology Mechanics Fertilizer 52

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Basements and garages have long been fertile ground for innovation, with a host of well-known companies including Apple, Amazon and Harley-Davidson tracing back to humble residential roots. Given the sliver of land—about a 16th of an acre—the duo initially had doubts about the business’ profitability. Microgreens at Kupu Place.

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Cultivation Crop Real Estate Food 101

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

In 1951, pioneering organic farmer, Frank Newman Turner, took up the theme in his book, Fertility Farming , referring to mycorrhizal associations he writes (p.50), ” By ‘short-circuit’ feeding, he means the use of artificial fertilisers. litres per hectare.

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Ploughing Crop Yield Farming 52

RR2CS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Together, Harold and his brother, Chris, and his father, Gerald, work collaboratively as partners to manage 5000 acres of irrigated land producing potatoes — varieties of chippers, russets, and red Mozart potatoes — along with other field crops, including hard red spring wheat, winter wheat, barley, sunflowers, green peas, seed canola.

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Farming Farming Crop Manure 52

Sustainable Harvest International

APRIL 22, 2022

This Earth Day, the Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) headquarters team has compiled thirteen simple yet meaningful tips for practicing sustainability at home. When grown locally, crops are harvested fresh at their peak ripeness. That means that they’ll need less water, less fertilizer, and less maintenance from you!

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Compost Food Harvester Harvesting 52

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Yet Hartman and his family manage to work less and make the same income on one third of an acre—the renowned Clay Bottom Farm —as they did on an acre. Then one day in 1995, while packing his cattle into a double-decker semi-truck bound for a slaughterhouse several states away, he recalls that something suddenly felt wrong.

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Food Farming Farming Seeding 121

Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

This, combined with restrictions imposed by Israel, meant half of farmers in the West Bank were unable to harvest their olives last year at a cost of $70m, affecting up to a third of the Palestinian population in the West Bank. The UN recorded more than 700 settler attacks on Palestinians since 7 th October.

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Farming Farming Livestock Food 126