Civil Eats

MARCH 26, 2025

In 2016, he purchased 12 acres in nearby rural Cedar Grove to start a regenerative vegetable farm, which he named Sankofa, after the West African word for reclaiming and carrying forward what has been lost. They send them produce bags every weekright now, I think they distribute to around 1,000 kids. Just look around now.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Register now for the 36th Independent Professional Seed Association (IPSA) Annual Conference January 6-9, at the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort & Spa, Indian Wells, CA. Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions (WMFTS) highlights a wide range of pumps ideal for seed treatment applications.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 19, 2024

The pantry is just one location in Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County ’s network of nearly 300 distribution sites; the 41-year-old organization serves an average of 430,000 people per month who are experiencing food insecurity. Volunteers working at Harvest Solution. Photography courtesy of Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Seed detective Adam Alexander travels to the Kor çë region to discover how regenerative horticulture is holding up. Collective farms grew local varieties and saved the seed of landraces that flourished in the varied growing environments across the country. In many regions farmers began planting modern, imported cultivars.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Next, he planned to mow down the still-standing plants before sowing rye and vetch, cover crops that would hold the soil in place during the wet winter ahead and fix nitrogen and other nutrients in it, ready for the vegetables he’d seed the coming spring. Nationwide, an average acre of farmland costs $3,800. Still, W.E.B.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

At her 6-acre Sakari Farms outside Bend, Oregon, Schreiner employs traditional ecological knowledge to cultivate regional first foods —foods consumed before European colonialization—and passes that expertise down to Native American youth. I think some of the blood memory in this ancestral seed is digging the drought.

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Agritecture Blog

APRIL 21, 2023

CONTENT SOURCED FROM CIVIL EATS Written by: Daniel Walton April 21, 2023 The Utopian Seed Project is growing dozens of types of okra in one North Carolina field, creating genetic collisions that build new, resilient varieties. And when those seeds came up in garden plots across the U.S., Credit: Chris Smith.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The White Oak Initiative , a group of researchers, government agencies and industry insiders dedicated to conservation, estimates that there are more than 100 million acres of white oak across the US, and roughly 75 percent of that is mature. These trees have good bolting, they’re strong and their seeds are excellent genetic material.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 7, 2023

Then, with her children in tow, Kitchen loaded up a little red wagon and distributed them at a long-term care facility. “In She lived on a one-acre homestead in a small town about halfway between Seattle and Bellingham, Washington, and dedicated herself to caring for her land. There are so many ways to sow it forward.”

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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. Friendly fescue hit the market in 2000, developed by Pennington Seed, Inc. There aren’t good numbers on adoption rates because seed companies are guarded about how much they sell.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

I had to rely on others to eat, and it was really difficult,” says Bista, who is one of six refugee farmers employed by New Leaf Agriculture, a 20-acre organic operation located in Manor, Texas. In Congo, the seeds are bigger, so we just plant them in the ground.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

acre farm in Escondido, near Camp Pendleton, in between tours. After ending his service in 2006, Archipley and his wife established Archi’s Acres , an organic hydroponic farm that supplies basil and other specialty crops to local restaurants and stores. Inside the Archi’s Acres greenhouse. It’s a huge talent pool.”

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 10, 2023

In response, the federal government has committed nearly $5 billion in the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to thinning forests on about 50 million Western acres over the next 10 years. We do hundreds to thousands of acres of fire mitigation a year,” Ravage said. He hopes to show that fungi can do it better.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 29, 2023

An application of GE bacteria could release 3 trillion genetically modified organisms every half an acre that’s about how many GE corn plants there are in the entire U.S. Proven® is already being used on over three million acres of U.S. And BASF sells a 2.0 They are also claiming their leadership in regenerative agriculture.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Rauch was worried about seeding, soil compaction and whether he’d end up with one giant gravel pile. ” Former professional football player turned farmer Jason Brown also tried basalt powder last spring on First Fruits Farm, his 1,000-acre farmstead in Louisburg, North Carolina. Prevost tested olivine on his land last spring.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

It’s often one of the only ways kids and adults alike can interact with nature, see where their food comes from and witness the magic of a seed sprouting. 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.

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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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Civil Eats

AUGUST 20, 2024

She is now in her second season of managing a 1-acre farm that Outgrowing Hunger leases in the nearby town of Boring, Oregon. At first, they only grew a little bit because I only had one plant from the seeds I brought with me. I was volunteering during the pandemic with Outgrowing Hunger to distribute food boxes to families.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management. It won’t be easy.

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Agwired

AUGUST 9, 2023

BeeHero , the pioneer of data-led precision pollination, introduced their Pollination Insight Platform (PIP), a plug-and-play in-field sensing solution that leverages AI-powered analytics to measure pollinator activity in seed, row, and specialty crops to subsequently improve pollination and increase yields. Today, cover crops are used on 15.4

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Civil Eats

MAY 21, 2024

million acres of shade-grown coffee, much of it bordering protected natural areas. Mexico’s agriculture department distributed rust-resistant cultivars such as Oro Azteca, Marsellesa, and Costa Rica 95, along with technical assistance on Fair Trade and organic certification. Mexico has nearly 1.5

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Stroup and her husband farm about 200 acres near Bessemer City, NC. At the state level, many government agencies are instituting grant policies to try and effectively distribute federal funding for broadband. As the cost of fertilizer and seed continues to rise, just running the farm at a basic capacity is difficult.

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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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Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2024

This relationship becomes especially interesting when business is booming—when the plants are delivering a lot of carbon into the soil that is used to build larger and larger fungal networks while distributing carbon across the soil profile. He mostly grows salad greens across 3 acres of farmland.

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Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Stroup and her husband farm about 200 acres near Bessemer City, Nortth Carolina. At the state level, many government agencies are instituting grant policies to try and effectively distribute federal funding for broadband. As the cost of fertilizer and seed continues to rise, just running the farm at a basic capacity is difficult.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

In addition, most natural fibers are grown conventionally, which often means heavy use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers and genetically modified or treated seeds. Instead, they face “huge deficits” in aggregation, distribution and manufacturing. Cotton, the most used natural fiber, occupies 2.4

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Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2023

Burger, who owns Bethel Springs Farm on 3 acres in Rickreall, Oregon with her husband, grows copious amounts of Rockwell beans, along with a host of other vegetables most likely to make an appearance in a winter soup. Much of what you’re distributing in the winter can be [sold] in larger quantities for consumers to store,” Hachmyer says. “As

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

There was no blueprint for our business model,” which sought to change the world by improving the lives of hundreds of millions of growers who work just a few acres. When you see founders who really want to change the world, they’re so rare,” says Galina Chifina of RTP Global, one of Plantix’s early venture capital investors.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Written by: Brakeley Bryant , Christian Kanlian and Jeffrey Landau May 11, 2023 Cities and their food supplies are facing stressors such as increased urbanization, climate change, extreme weather, a lack of varied production systems and seed genetics, labor shortages, and logistics delays. Raised beds at Dallas Half Acre Farm.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 29, 2023

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. Torres helped bargain the contract, and is still president of their union.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

Is this going to be some vertically integrated industry with thousand-acre farms owned by three guys who are getting all the benefits?” Is this going to be some vertically integrated industry with thousand-acre farms owned by three guys who are getting all the benefits?” And while that’s exciting in some ways, it’s also alarming. “Is

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2023

Here are snapshots from those visits: Members toured Sister Gardens, one of three sites that are part of Frontline Farming, based in Denver, CO, Sister Gardens is a vegetable, herb, and flower garden on more than one acre of land within the Aria Denver development. A disused orchard that had been stewarded by the Sisters of St.

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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

Those lesser-known companies tend to operate up the supply chain, and include Bayer and Syngenta, which sell the seeds farmers need and the pesticides they’ve come to rely on, and Nutrien and CF Industries Holdings, which manufacture synthetic fertilizers.

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Agwired

MARCH 21, 2025

per acre for the 2024 crop year. Stine Seed Company is proud to announce that March 27, 2025, will be officially proclaimed Women in Agriculture Day in Iowa. Bayer announced the opening of a new maize seed facility in Kabwe, Zambia. Corn growers are eligible for the program with a payment rate of $42.91

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

The Aztec believed the first man resulted from Quetzalcóatl’s gifting of cultivated corn; in the Maya story, the first spiritually fit humans are crafted from maize seeds after failed attempts to use wood and mud. In his definitive history of Monsanto, Seed Money , Bartow J. This was a market opportunity of astounding proportions.

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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. Yet this funding is unevenly distributed to mainly benefit the largest 10 percent of farms. I just seed the minimal level of 10 pounds [of flax] an acre with my peas.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 22, 2024

It partners with organizations distributing fresh local produce and frozen meat to individuals and communities with limited food accessibility in the region. Located in Falcon Heights, within the Twin Cities metropolitan area, The Good Acre serves as a food hub committed to farmer equity, food quality, and the environment.

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