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Modern Farmer
MAY 28, 2024
His 2,500-acre family farm is patchwork across 40 miles of land the family owns and leases, and grows organic corn, soy, wheat and specialty crops such as beans and peas. ecosystem is Mad Capital , a private investment firm that finances regenerative farmers. One of four branches of the MAD! And they’re ready to fund more farmers.
Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
They farm on 130 acres of the land on which her father and grandfather had raised hogs. Photos courtesy of Wendy Johnson) To date, Johnson has planted 6,000 trees on 20 acres of their fields, with plans to double the number of trees. Elderberry, becoming popular as a hedgerow crop, provides both farm income and ecological benefits.
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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. Spring Alaska Schreiner, owner of Sakari Farms outside Bend, Oregon.
Modern Farmer
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Working with Viva Farms and Dirt Capital Partners, an agricultural investment company , Farias now has locked in a financing deal that puts him on track to own a parcel of land a few miles away from Viva Farms, within just a few years. Viva Farms owns or leases over 100 acres in Washington state.
The Lunatic Farmer
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
They had attended my address earlier in the day and were brimming with questions about labor, moving animals, and finances. Commodity productivity per acre is down across the board, driving prices up. The highlight for me was meeting with 11 young coffee growers. But they are now.
Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
Blooming ecological success Maggie Taylor of Delight Flower Farm, a commercial cut-flower farm in Champaign, Ill., has always been ecologically minded. As her business grew from a small plot in a backyard garden to the five-acre farm she purchased in 2019, Taylor tapped into USDA cost-share contracts that reward conservation practices.
Civil Eats
AUGUST 29, 2023
He’s still in the livestock business—cows, chickens, and goats all graze across Good Wheel’s 42 acres. Increasingly, it also means projects that work with very large farms to implement practices such as cover cropping and reduced tillage on tens of thousands of acres of Midwestern corn and soy.
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