Acre Construction Orchard 
Caff
OCTOBER 22, 2024
The group then moved up the slope, in between the small orchard and vineyard. They’ve taken a somewhat experimental approach in the orchard to see what grows best, and found that jujubes, apricots, and pomegranates thrived while apples and chestnuts didn’t do well due to the heat of the region and plums were too susceptible to disease.
Modern Farmer
DECEMBER 15, 2023
Sprouting deep within the verdant pleats of Oʻahu’s Koʻolau Mountains, Heʻeia stream winds through Kakoʻo ʻOʻiwi , a non-profit organization centered on a six-acre taro farm, before emptying into the wide mouth of Kane‘ohe Bay. Originally constructed by Native Hawaiians hundreds of years before colonization, the effort resurrected a 1.3-mile
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ATTRA
AUGUST 20, 2024
There are 60-acre landfills that are being filled up with rice hulls,” he said, “so we set up to try to find a greener alternative.” Vineyards, orchards, row crops–farmers are trialing this stuff and finding out it has huge advantages.” That’s part of why Bryan and his employees decided to relocate the business to California.
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.
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.
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. We realized because of the way they’re harvested, we didn’t need a lot of clearance for equipment, but we really needed to protect the soils and protect the plants during the construction phase.”
Civil Eats
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Just a few miles from California’s state capital, owner Nelson Hawkins has turned an abandoned half-acre lot into a hub of food production for the community. growers and owned more than 16 million acres of land. percent of all farmers and own fewer than 5 million acres. Today, they make up just 1.3
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