RR2CS

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

During the growing season of 2023 as summer turned into fall, the Rural Routes to Climate Solutions podcast and Regeneration Canada were on the final leg of the Stories of Regeneration tour. The post EP 73 Diversity is Resiliency – SoR Part Six appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 7, 2025

When Michael Kotutwa Johnson goes out to the acreage behind his stone house to harvest his corn, his fields look vastly different from the endless rows of corn you see in much of rural North America. million acres of reservation the Hopi occupy in Northwestern Arizona, a fraction of their original territory. Roasted corn in a Hopi pit.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The increased profit of corn has meant more corn is grown which has resulted in a 5% increase in erosion and nutrient leaking into public waters as acres are converted from perennial management or kept in row crops. about 300,000 acres from 2002 to 2014. In the US we are cultivating fewer and fewer acres each and every year.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Corn and soybeans dominate the Hawkeye State’s rural landscapes. million acres of corn and 10 million acres of soybeans, according to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service Information. And in the Midwest, 127 million acres of land overall are dedicated to ag, said the USDA.

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ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2025

Increase Productivity One major reason to adopt tractor farming is that it makes it possible to cultivate larger areas in less time, with less hired help, and less backbreaking work. Mechanizing tasks like bed shaping, planting, and cultivation is game-changing. Proper tilling and cultivation help with pest management.

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The Equation

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In early 2023, I had the opportunity to serve as the reviewer of Chapter 11 (Agriculture, Food Systems, and Rural Communities) of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA 5 ). This creates instability in the cultivation and overall supply and distribution of food, which affects human and environmental health.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Brooks Lamb: I grew up on a small farm in rural Tennessee. Even by just raising three or four acres of tobacco, families could make a respectable return that helped their farm’s economic viability. Like what you see here? To care for it.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Rather than treating agriculture fields as industrial factories, an alternative approach would involve encouraging more regenerative practices and cultivating a new generation of farmers integrated in their communities who know the land intimately.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

After looking in vain for an affordable local wheat source, Ellis decided to experiment with dry-farming the grain himself on a small piece of land 45 miles north of San Diego, in rural Valley Center. But intensive cultivation and lack of variety led to challenges in productivity. Total citrus sales were $146 million. in March 2022.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 12, 2024

percent, from 434 acres to 463 acres. FARMacy also cultivates learning and gathering around food, Nazeer says. From 2012 to 2022, the number of farms in the U.S. decreased by almost 10 percent, according to the USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture , while the average farm size increased 6.7 In 2023, the store made $6.5

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

On a crisp weekend this past fall, 30 state legislators from across the nation descended on TomKat Ranch , an 1,800-acre ranch focused on regenerative agriculture in Pescadero, California, an hour south of San Francisco. We are rural, urban, and suburban,” she said. We are female; we are male.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

On the back 16 acres of Walla Walla Community College, 30 Red Angus cows stand munching on hairy vetch, ryegrass and other cover crops that were planted to help restore the soil. The federal government is trying to help spur growth in these types of programs, too. Students drive curriculum,” says Leventhal.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 30, 2023

For farmland near the largest markets in Alaska—the Mat-Su Valley and Anchorage—Autry says, “We’re looking at fair market values per acre of $25,000 to $40,000.” In 2021, the USDA listed the average value for an acre of farmland in California at $13,860. Often, Autry has to dissuade them. In Florida, it’s $7,300. Phoebe Autry.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

My idea of heaven is the 100 hectares of cultivated ground that provide a livelihood for the 50 plus families who work the land in Miras and who produce more than enough food to feed the entire community of 600 families. The reallocation of collective farms meant that thousands of families were given land to cultivate themselves.

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RR2CS

MARCH 19, 2024

Wrapping up our Stories of Regeneration tour, we land in Ottawa at Just Food Community Farm, a 150-acre farmstead located in Ottawa’s Greenbelt that is championing small-scale, viable agriculture businesses and initiatives like Chi Garden and Urban Fresh Produce.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 28, 2023

Award Highlights NSAC congratulates all LCM recipients, including the following NSAC members: California Alliance of Family Farms (CAFF) , World Farmers , Cultivate Kansas City , Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA (RAFI-USA) , Maine Farmland Trust , Agrarian Trust , and Land Stewardship Project (LSP).

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Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

It’s no wonder that hospital food gets a bad rap, says Santana Diaz, executive chef at the University of California Davis Medical Center, a sprawling, 142-acre campus located in Sacramento, California. on the other hand, cultivates its supply pipeline “over many years of sustained [purchasing] commitments” to individual operations, he says.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 5, 2024

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. a company that manages over 110,000 acres of farmland throughout the Central Valley. in the air. tons of PM2.5 have been reduced per day.

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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. Both practices reduce their climate risk while increasing the farm’s ability to absorb carbon.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

MARCH 11, 2025

Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry in a hearing titled Perspectives From the Field: Risk Management, Credit, and Rural Business Views on the Agricultural Economy Part 3. Rowe operates Rowe Organic Farms , a 30-acre farm in Albany, GA, where he cultivates organic peanuts, watermelons, sunflowers, and hemp.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Over time, the consolidation and commodification of seeds has eroded the resilience of our food systems, diminishing the agrobiodiversity of crops cultivated in the US at an alarming rate. per planted acre of seed in 1990 paid $93.48 To strictly analyze the cost of seed, consider that corn farmers who paid $26.65

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 3, 2024

That work is based in the Ozarks, where elderberries are native and have often grown on their own, despite the region’s thin and rocky soil, but not traditionally in a cultivated way. Could a better understanding of how to cultivate the crop open new possibilities – health as well as economic – for the Ozarks and beyond? “We

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

Visitors to the rural area will notice that cattle ranches dominate the landscape, once covered by Amazonian forests. According to official figures from the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies, the region lost 94,847 acres of forest in 2021 — almost 15,000 acres more than in 2020, the largest increase in the country.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

They must be gently cultivated where the low-lying bushes grow naturally, and the small, sweet berries are sold in the local area, too delicate to easily transport far. That would be solar panels that have been installed across 11 acres of the land where Sweetland farms blueberries in Rockport, Maine.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Read all the stories in this series: A Black-Led Agricultural Community Takes Shape in Maryland An urban farm trailblazer begins building a Black agrarian corridor in rural Maryland, fostering community and climate resilience. acres are reserved for vegetables. Land access was the first step. That’s how bad it was last year.

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Caff

JANUARY 27, 2021

Inspired by the transformative experience he had on the land through growing food, he chose to work towards building opportunities for other African Americans to do the same, co-founding the African American Farmers of California 16-acre Demonstration Farm.

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RR2CS

JANUARY 3, 2024

By Trina Moyles Glen and Kelly Hall have been managing Timber Ridge Ranch, a 480-acre farmland situated an hour south of Calgary near Stavely, Alberta, for over 40 years. Over the last four decades, they have seeded an impressive 5,000 acres, aiming to enhance biodiversity both above and below the soil.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county. In the rural Hecks Grove communityless than a mile from where Robert E. acres where his great-grandfather Byron had been enslaved.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Since 2012, Gail Taylor has built healthy soil, provided hundreds of local families with fresh tomatoes and turnips, and fostered community on less than an acre at Three Part Harmony Farm in northeast Washington, D.C. Gail Taylor and D’Real Graham at Three Part Harmony Farm, their one-acre farm in Washington, D.C.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2023

Outside of the University he owns and operates a cottage-food business, Vulcan Mine Bakery, where he bakes and provides free business consultations for rural redevelopment initiatives. Francis since 1938, Sister Gardens has become a bustling site of food production and also of reawakened community cultivation.​

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

40 Acres & A Mule Project , United States 40 Acres & A Mule seeks to acquire Black-owned farmland to be used to celebrate and preserve the history, food, and stories of Black culture in food and farming. As we enter a new quarter century, here are 125 organizations to follow and support in 2025. agricultural policy.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) , Asia AFA works to empower and strengthen the capacities of leaders and technical staff to increase resilience and combat hunger. Nobody wants farmers in urban and rural contexts to go hungry,” Reverend Eugene Cho, CEO and President of Bread for the World tells Food Tank.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Hurricane-force winds and torrential rains destroyed fall crops still in the field, knocked down pecan orchards that growers spent decades cultivating, and damaged a million and a half acres of timberland,” said Ossoff. ” Sen. . ” Senate hearing - Sen. Ossoff (11:11) Senate hearing - Sen. Small (3:53)

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Daily Yonder

AUGUST 2, 2024

SJR 74 would have allowed rural districts to have more influence over constitutional amendments. Photo provided by Heather Wright Wendel) Heather Wright Wendel, owner of Apple Acres Farm in Houghton, Michigan, is a member of the Michigan Farm Bureau for insurance but said the organization’s lobbying does not represent her views.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Rebel Ventures puts youth at the center of innovating nutritious, enjoyable meals for Philadelphia students, while the Yum Yum Bus , the brainchild of school nutrition workers, ensures that all children who need summer meals get them in rural North Carolina. Meanwhile, in the U.S.,

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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. In 2014, the amount of land devoted to tobacco cultivation, as a portion of all U.S. agricultural land, was 0.04

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Sprinkled throughout the recipes are fascinating historical tidbits about the Quaker who first cultivated rhubarb in the 1730s, for example, and the Indigenous tribes that used spruce tip tea to ward off scurvy. To make an amaro (relatively easy!) you need to first learn to make a tincture. The book exceeded my expectations.

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