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. Several classes discuss using ecology principles to inhibit or get rid of weeds, for example.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 15, 2023

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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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. Sakari Farms offers a program that teaches youth how to grow and harvest traditional foods.

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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. Somewhere between 10 million and 20 million acres is, we believe, possibly a tipping point where regenerative organic ag could become inevitable,” says Taylor.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 19, 2024

And that’s after the corn is planted, doused with fossil-fuel-derived fertilizers, shielded from weeds and insects with toxic chemicals, and harvested. The owners say leasing land for the “community solar” garden removes several acres from crop production but provides extra revenue. AP Photo/Jim Mone. Corn, the largest U.S.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

In return, they are paid a yearly rental rate per acre of land enrolled in CRP programs. In 2023, he USDA Farm Service Agency made more than $1.77 billion in payments to agricultural producers and landowners enrolled in all CRP programs, and more than 23 million acres of private land in the US was being conserved.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2024

She points out that most of the shellfish she harvests these days have been seeded manually by the town of Southampton and local universities, “almost like a science project,” she says. Volunteers help to hand-harvest the Shinnecock Kelp Farmers 2023-2024 sugar kelp haul on New York’s Shinnecock Bay. That’s not right.”

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund The Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund is a multidisciplinary, cooperative nonprofit ecosystem that aims to regenerate custodial land ownership, ecological stewardship, and food and fiber economies in the American South.

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 16, 2023

While both permaculture and polyculture farming prioritize sustainability and ecological balance, permaculture takes a broader systems-thinking approach, while polyculture farming focuses on planting strategies within a specific area. Whether you have one acre or one hundred, polyculture can be implemented.

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Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Learn more at our World Soil Day webinar The Soil-ution Sustainable Harvest International's proven model demonstrates the profound benefit of family farmers working in harmony with nature. Instead of leaving fields bare after harvest, SHI partner farmers plant cover crops to promote ecological balance all year long.

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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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Caff

JANUARY 20, 2022

Launched by Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF), the Innovation Challenge solicited innovators from all backgrounds–farmers, students, entrepreneurs–all with the goal of shifting focus away from big ag and towards empowering the greatest number of farms, even those operating on just an acre or two.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Deadly clashes on the Great Plains prompted the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 , which created the Great Sioux Reservation spanning 60 million acres around the Black Hills. In Montana, for example, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes now oversee 18,000 acres where bison roam once again. billion acres across the U.S.,

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Food Tank

APRIL 5, 2024

Mariposas Rebeldes focuses on building access to ecology and community gardening for queer folks, and The Grocery Spot exemplifies a sustainable, community-first model for a nonprofit grocery store. There are many inspiring organizations working across Atlanta, so I hope you’ll read the full list HERE. More info is HERE.

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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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Caff

DECEMBER 15, 2023

We’re starting a pilot vineyard that is going to focus on stacking all those principles on 20 acres of a regenerative vineyard, with the goal to have that grow. Going into harvest, usually we lay down an herbicide to keep the vineyard clean through the harvest time-period. We’re trialing grazing now which is awesome.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 13, 2023

Although some of Napa’s grapes had already been harvested, a huge portion of that year’s Cabernet Sauvignon, the wine for which the area is best known for and which can sell for thousands of dollars a bottle given the right year and the right winery, was lost. But those numbers are lower than they should be.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 26, 2023

From climate risks to better work-life balance, a small but growing contingent of farmers is giving up summer crops to reap winter’s harvest. PFAS Shut Maine Farms Down. Now, Some Are Rebounding.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

If it had been harvest time and she were Ojibwe, Ng might have been standing, wielding a ricing stick to knock the husks into her hull. I don’t know if my grandchildren will get to harvest rice,” Graveen says. A heavy downpour can then uproot the plant and ruin that year’s harvest. Photo by Taylor Glascock.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MARCH 27, 2024

Acres of abandoned olive groves, a global supply crisis and the apocalyptic threat of an invasive bacteria might not sound like a promising formula for small-scale olive growers in Puglia, Italy’s largest production region. But for some producers and local activists, that might just be the case. However, that has changed recently.

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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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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 6, 2023

We were in the parking lot of Island Center Forest, a 440-acre wooded park home to miles of hiking trails and one large pond where birdwatchers flock. Later, his focus shifted to urban ecology. By the end of the decade, an estimated 300 acres of western Washington were dedicated to holly. He chose St.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 18, 2023

They harvested bighorn sheep and other game for food, tools, and clothing. The dam blocked 1,400 miles of salmon spawning habitat and flooded 56,000 acres of land, as well as the ecosystems that supported whole communities of animals and people. But in 1942, the U.S. There’s still a harmony, but it’s missing a note here and there.”

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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.

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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 John Boyd, Jr. & & the National Black Farmers Association John Boyd, Jr.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

The isolation of this ecologically rich archipelago of peaks, located in a “sea” of desert that stretches from northern Mexico into southern Arizona, means that plants grow here that don’t grow anywhere else. Farmers plant seeds deep in the soil, use passive rainwater harvesting, and rely on hardy desert-adapted seeds.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The painting reminded him of his elders teaching him to harvest black walnuts and hickories. “I The Haudenosaunee creation story, Patterson said, is “a cycle of loss, grieving, and recovery all the time, just like ecological succession.” So to Patterson, the question of whether to grow transgenic trees isn’t really the most urgent one.

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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. He was specifically denied coverage for harvested crops grown in the grasslands. He planted wheat and other grains directly into the meadows and relied solely on rainfall for much of his acreage.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

headquarters just as harvest season got underway. We have 6,400 acres this year that we farm,” LaPointe said, pointing out color-coded land plots on the map. We see the ecological benefits and values of producing organically,” LaPointe said. “It It also depicts a success story for the tribe. “We Credit: Indianz News.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

We’ve got 150 acres of grain.” Prior to that, they had all either harvested by hand, an intensely laborious process, or hired someone with a combine. They spread out the cost through a fee structure based on either the number of acres on which the equipment is used or the number of hours it is in use.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 28, 2023

Coastal Tribes—known as Salmon Nations—have an extensive history of salmon rituals, ceremonies, and complex intertribal understandings that ensured sustainable harvests for millennia. When a federal agency discounts Tribal expertise and traditional ecological knowledge, it is as if historical treaties are being broken all over again.

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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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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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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Organic farming is a practice that emphasizes natural processes, ecological balance and the conserving of resources. How much did you harvest? For Eaton’s two acres of vegetable crops, he pays about $1,400 per year. But inspectors look at the books and realize the yield sold is much closer to 200 acres.

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Caff

JUNE 29, 2021

Rebecca was recently notified by the State Water Board that she may be prohibited from pumping water from a well on the three acres that she leases. Fines for violating the order are as high as $1,000 per day of violation and $2,500 for each acre-food of water diverted. I won’t have any money coming in then.” She farms 1.5

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Civil Eats

APRIL 3, 2024

At each of those sites, the research team worked with farmers and gardeners to collect data on the infrastructure, daily supplies used, irrigation, harvest amounts, and social goods. It included 73 urban farms, community gardens, and individual garden sites in Europe and the United States. In New York City, for example, the only U.S.

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The Counter

MAY 17, 2022

The 5,000-acre reservation is nearby, and the Tribe’s Department of Natural Resources does restoration work along Ohop Creek. In 2019 alone, there were 27 million pounds of coho harvested for consumption in the U.S. This land is the ancestral home to the Nisqually Tribe, which currently has more than 650 enrolled members.

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