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Promising Conservation Results in the 2022 Agricultural Census

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

For example, the Census shows increasing use of key practices like conservation tillage and cover crops and durable protection of acres in conservation easements. million acres with cover crops (a 17% increase) in 2022 than in 2017 and a 50% increase in acres with cover crops from 2012. Since the 1997 high of 66.4

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Should We Be Farming in the Desert?

Civil Eats

Yet carrots, cauliflower, sweet onions, honeydew, broccoli, and alfalfa all grow here, incongruous crops that spread across half a million acres of cultivated land. Ronald Leimgruber farms 3,500 of those acres. Through a pilot program, MWD pays the farmers leasing the land and the tribe up to $473 per acre.

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NATIONAL PARKS

The Lunatic Farmer

As a landowner with hundreds of acres of upland Appalachian hardwoods, I would sit there and watch a bevy of bureaucrats carve off massive pieces for logging in what are known as “below cost” timber sales. But at least the Secretary of the Interior wouldn’t, with the stroke of a pen, be able to give private largesse to millions of acres.

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Meet the Taro Farmer Restoring an Ecosystem Through Native Hawaiian Practices

Modern Farmer

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. One acre can bank about a foot of water,” he says. “If

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Building a Case for Investment in Regenerative Agriculture on Indigenous Farms

Civil Eats

million-acre Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation , where she grew up, the county is among the poorest areas in the United States. The Brewers run cattle and grow some alfalfa across 12,000 acres of grassland that’s a combination of owned land, leased tribal land, and federal trust land. Encompassing part of the 1.4-million-acre

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Spotlighting Climate Solutions: Celebrating Food Waste Warriors

Food Tank

The event is being held in partnership with NY Common Pantry, Restaurant Associates, LES Ecology Center, Compass Group, Acre, the Green Bronx Machine, ReFed, and Wheyward Spirits. The event will be streaming live at FoodTank.com. from 5:45-8:00PM ET. Learn more now by clicking HERE.

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Helmy Abouleish: SEKEM, sustainable water management in Egypt and the Economy of Love

Sustainable Food Trust

A development where political development, economic development, cultural development and ecological development go hand in hand. In the end, they contribute to carbon sequestration in the soil, at five, six, seven tonnes an acre – at least – a year. “Sustainable development from our understanding is holistic development.

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