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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 Investing in Real Estate as a Means to Farm Jamie and Doug Wickler were engineers, but the 2008 crash made them reconsider career paths. When the Wicklers bought their properties in 2017-2020, real estate was significantly cheaper.
Modern Farmer
JANUARY 15, 2024
Given the cost of Long Island real estate, the space efficiency is “one of the great benefits of [farming] microgreens,” says DiLillo. He dropped single-use clamshell boxes for a biodegradable and compostable, plant-based alternative, and he even closed his health food store accounts, which require water-resistant adhesive labels.
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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.
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. The first is farmland loss from haphazard real estate development, the kind that leads to rural gentrification. We also raised burley tobacco until I was a junior in high school.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy.
Agritecture Blog
APRIL 14, 2023
Agrihoods—or neighborhoods centered around agriculture—have continued to pop up around the country, with one of the latest being Indigo by Houston-based real estate development company Meristem Communities. Garrett: Meristem Communities is a Houston-based real estate development company that was established in 2021.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
MAY 10, 2024
As with all programs, NSAC will continue to analyze the RPFSA’s CSP provisions, including a proposed one-time CSP subprogram focused on enrollment of up to 500,000 acres of native or improved pasture land used for livestock grazing in the Lower Mississippi River Valley to address water quality issues leading to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.
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