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We Need Regenerative Agriculture, But How Can Farmers Fund the Transition?

Modern Farmer

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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The American Chestnut Tree is Coming Back. Who is It For?

Modern Farmer

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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Secrets of the swamp

Food Environment and Reporting Network

At 60,000 acres, the proposed pool could swallow entire Florida cities. Eventually, the reservoir was whittled down to just 10,000 acres. The Everglades Foundation was formed in the 1990s by two wealthy fishing buddies—billionaire Paul Tudor Jones II and an Orlando real estate developer named George Barley.

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