Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Your book talks a lot about “road ecology.” Ben Goldfarb: Road ecology is the field of scientific study that looks at how roads and other transportation infrastructure affect nature and what we do about those impacts. A lot of road ecology is about why roadkill happens and what its effects on populations are and how to prevent it.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

carbon emissions) by another large number (yield per acre), you get a small number of carbon emissions associated with each serving of lettuce, for example. By reconnecting with food, with ecology, with living soil, we connect to climate solutions and help to reverse the damages of climate change. from U.C.

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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. I’m a beekeeper and I love all those momma bees that go out and gather pollen and nectar on our 15-acre pollinator conservation project as part of our 30-acre family farm.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. Darrel Franson, a Missouri rancher who remembers the endophyte-free fescue debacle, nevertheless decided to take the risk, converting his 126 acres to friendly fescue.

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Daily Yonder

MAY 14, 2024

Solar developers and agriculture researchers from the University of Maine have been studying the issue for two years at this 12-acre, four-megawatt project in Rockport. We see enormous potential to both keep land in agricultural production but also to achieve these kinds of ecological benefits,” Robertson-DuBois said.

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Share Food Program

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

acres in Southwest Philadelphia, produces over 15,000 pounds of food per year using natural agricultural practices, and is powered by paid high school interns working alongside community elders, neighbors and volunteers. Sankofa spans 3.5

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The carbon is being used by the microbes—the ecology of the soil—to do all things: build organic matter, soil structure, increase infiltration, and feed life.” Today, Tim and Joanne manage WR Grazing in collaboration with Doug and other family members on 3000 acres of land. The benefits aren’t just financial, says Tim, but ecological.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

APRIL 20, 2023

I come from a family of farmers: my maternal grandparents farmed more than 25 acres of vegetables from the 1960s to the 1980s, and my paternal grandfather farmed nearly 80 acres of pasture grass from the 1970s to the early 2000s. acres into production for student demonstrations, and teaching the community how to grow food.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Practices That Sequester Carbon and Increase Resilience Within EQIP and CSP in particular, the practices that receive funding through the IRA tend to accomplish multiple ecological goals. Some selections can increase yields and profits per acre. Some of the highest impact comes from agroforestry practices.

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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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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But instead it shackled us, enslaved us to nefarious scientists bringing us fertilizer and menus from laboratories instead of from God’s ecological womb. Throughout history, agriculture required a highly integrated approach because until cheap energy and mechanization, distribution was laborious. We have millions of acres locked up.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Raised beds at Dallas Half Acre Farm. As policymakers and food system stakeholders alike realize the importance of localizing food systems and supporting community networks (ecological, social, and economic), it is becoming highly valuable to incorporate urban agriculture into city planning. According to the U.S.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2023

As founder of the “Once and Future Green”, Michelle trains and consults Frontline communities, governments, and philanthropy to forward community-driven solutions with transformative anti-oppression and ecological design tools. A disused orchard that had been stewarded by the Sisters of St.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Prioritizing ecological integrity and community health over yield, these farmers stay profitable by diversifying their crops, producing value-added products like jams and sauces, and building community support and social capital. The young couple started a 180-acre dairy farm for livelihood to raise their 14 children.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Just over a decade ago, he began converting his 11,000-acre farm to perennial native grassland to rebuild the health of his soil. Irrigated crops receive higher payouts than dryland crops, while farmers often risk their coverage to engage in some of the most ecologically sound practices. I don’t talk about it too much.”

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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.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Western natural resource management “developed in the service of a utilitarian, exploitive, dominion-over-nature worldview of colonist and industrial developers,” writes Fikret Berkes, an emeritus professor of ecology at the University of Manitoba and the author of the award-winning book Sacred Ecology. Photo by Taylor Glascock.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The Institute aims to advance sustainable and nutritious food production systems, improve food distribution and access, and contributes to policy discussions. Working in 19 schools, they distribute more than 20,000 kilograms of student-grown produce and offer more than 97,000 servings of leafy green vegetables.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Goldthwaite The coeditors of Good Eats , both English professors and authors, have gathered a selection of creative nonfiction essays that requires “ecological thinking and a close attention to relationships, the environment, and diversity.” That’s not to say growing food isn’t hard work.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

That’s how, a year later, he ended up at the largest cattle ranch in Montana, where the only thing more vast than its approximately 380,000 acres is the wealth and power of the man who owns it: one Rupert Murdoch. How do you do that and create ecological change, economic value, and social benefit? It’s not gonna be the last.”

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Nina Elkadi Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A Journey Toward Personal and Ecological Healing By Jennifer Grenz “To use only fragmented pieces of [Indigenous] knowledge is to admire a tree without its roots,” Nlaka’pamux ecologist turned land healer Jennifer Grenz writes in Medicine Wheel for the Planet.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 10, 2025

Galen and Linda had been under tremendous stress since they took over the 160-acre family farm. The isolation is real, particularly in western Kansas where farmers work thousands of acres, with miles and miles between houses. Stay in the Loop! Dont miss FERNs latest revelations, developments, and initiatives. .

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 28, 2025

Hes also an accountant, squaring the numbers for his central Minnesota farm by hand; a herder, rotating 75 cows between pastures; a crop farmer, raising 300 acres of feed like corn and hay; and a mechanic, repairing the equipment necessary to tend that acreage. Ben Wagner may be a dairy farmer, but that job description is woefully incomplete.

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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. When he first came to Florida to work as a hydrologist for the water management district in the 1980s, he had few ecological inclinations. But then he began to explore the Everglades.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 19, 2024

The owners say leasing land for the “community solar” garden removes several acres from crop production but provides extra revenue. Every year, goaded by billions worth of federal commodity payments and subsidized crop insurance, farmers plant around 90 million acres of corn—a combined landmass roughly the size of California.

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