Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

He will soon begin a five-year, 10-acre agrivoltaics research project in collaboration with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District , which is currently installing a new 344-megawatt, 1,700-acre solar farm in Placer County. For a small farm—say 10, 20, 30 acres—if you convert your whole farm to solar, you’re quitting farming.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

He plans to harvest some grasses as hay for animal bedding and weed control. According to the researchers, between 2011 and 2017 the number of visible salt patches almost doubled and about 20,000 acres of farmland turned into marsh.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Embry now lives alongside his cousin in Richmond, Kentucky, on the 30-acre Ballew Farm, named after his great uncle Atrus, who died at age 100. He invited me to spend the summer in New York City in 1968 working construction. It seemed like the whole world was in New York City. Get engaged in your community.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 4, 2024

The solar farm Alliant Energy completed construction on the 10-acre Alliant Energy Solar Farm on the ISU research farms near Ames, Iowa in the fall of 2023. Issues such as harvest timing and growing season will be studied, as well as climatic impacts. The harvested crops will be sold to the university’s dining halls.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

Its 2,800 acres—the first protected habitat for the wild relatives of crops in the United States—now shelter not just a single pepper but at least 45 different species. Farmers plant seeds deep in the soil, use passive rainwater harvesting, and rely on hardy desert-adapted seeds. Our seeds are very resilient,” said Johnson.

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Caff

OCTOBER 22, 2024

When they purchased the farm over 30 years ago it was an unproductive almond orchard and since then they have pulled the almonds out and utilized the sloped landscape to construct swales, establish a vineyard, and plant a wide variety of fruit trees which provide shelter while their flock of ducks grazes.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 27, 2024

Pests can shorten your harvest, cripple your plants’ production potential and double your garden chores. Constructing simple fencing can help keep rabbits away and planting good companion plants like marigolds can go a long way to keep unwanted critters away from your precious plants. I’ve never grown a fall garden.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 16, 2024

Some are even ready to harvest. Because she doesn’t have at least five acres, her application to join the federal Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program – which would have enabled her to accept food vouchers from low-income seniors – was denied four times.

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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. Student lab assistants traversed a 20-acre section of the 300-acre park, treading in straight lines regardless of topography, up and down steep inclines, over and under downed branches.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 18, 2023

They harvested bighorn sheep and other game for food, tools, and clothing. The dam blocked 1,400 miles of salmon spawning habitat and flooded 56,000 acres of land, as well as the ecosystems that supported whole communities of animals and people. No fish passage was built then, nor since.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 29, 2023

Torres had been a city boy, raised in Guadalajara, and he was the son of a construction worker. Finally, in 2017, they convinced Sakuma Brothers Farms—which occupies more than 1,500 acres in Washington State—to sign a pioneering collective bargaining agreement. Finally, in 2017, they found the 75-acre plot where the co-op farms today.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The ‘Soft Path’ of Water for Farmers in the Western US Colorado’s Groundwater Experiment At Peachwood Farms, a flat, 1,897-acre expanse at the heart of the valley’s groundwater conservation trial, Ivers stood amid fallowed fields bordered by circles of barley and areas being revegetated with native seeds.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 11, 2024

(Photo credit: Emma Glassman-Hughes) With help from the tribes Natural Resources Department , the town of Mashpee is compiling a harbor management plan, an extensive document that will set guidelines for the construction of marinas and docks. Its like they dont see the impact [on] their great-great-grandchildren, Pocknett said.

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

An underground greenhouse currently under construction in Pine Ridge. Two people bend over the pallets, using scissors to harvest delicate sprouts of microgreens. In an underground greenhouse, Raycen Raines (right) helps harvest microgreens that are donated to the community. Credit: Dawn E. LeBeau/The Guardian. Credit: Dawn E.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

That would be solar panels that have been installed across 11 acres of the land where Sweetland farms blueberries in Rockport, Maine. Sweetland tends, harvests and sells the blueberries, and shares profits with the landowner. Our goal is to understand the impact of construction — how will blueberries react to being driven over?”

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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. That’s not to say growing food isn’t hard work. Hartman maximizes many practices from the past while implementing today’s tech “on a human scale” to reap the greatest reward.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Only two EnerWealth installations have so far been constructed, with a total capacity of just half a megawatt. Dependable Harvest What the EnerWealth model offers rural communities, Othow suggests, is a way to benefit from development while retaining land ownership and agricultural use. The Pendleton site, for example, covers just 2.6

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

By then, there were already 10 CAFOs within a 3-mile radius of their 760-acre farm, so they knew the stench the facility would bring. In repeated CAFO fights, the industry employs the classic sneak attack, laying plans weeks, months, and years ahead of construction. Enough,” Lowell said, “is enough.” My dad was a warrior.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

He recounted the innumerable ways his 1,500 acres of tobacco, spread over several counties around Wilson, the historic center of the flue-cured tobacco industry in North Carolina, might lose money if he’s not careful. He gets more pounds out of his acres than most farmers by controlling the smaller operation personally.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I had driven for an hour through a landscape blasted by extreme heat and drought before I saw a single combine at harvest. It had been a brutal harvest for Ohios farmers. Intel took advantage of state incentives to build a new computer chip factory in New Albany, Ohio, seen here under construction in summer 2024.

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 27, 2024

Strengthening an Agricultural Economy Is not “Rocket Science” Taber said crops like vegetables, fruits, and nuts are more profitable per acre than crops like tobacco, which has been a historic staple crop for North Carolina. That’s one of the things she says is driving farmland loss in North Carolina, she said.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 25, 2024

At 60,000 acres, the proposed pool could swallow entire Florida cities. Eventually, the reservoir was whittled down to just 10,000 acres. The foundation declined to make Eikenberg available for an interview, but Weisblum described the meeting as a constructive conversation. Mechanical harvesters cut sugar cane in the U.S.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Despite the risk of nuclear waste, the Biden administration has also championed nuclear power as a carbon-free solution and sought to incentivize the construction of new reactors through subsidies and loans. Their mass deportation and the resulting labor shortage could drive up prices at the grocery store.

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