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Food Systems 101: How Community Colleges Are Helping Students Connect Farm to Fork

Modern Farmer

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. The school ran an outdoor hydroponics farm this summer to help work out logistics on the soon-to-be-built indoor vertical farm.

Food 98
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BIFS Field Day: Cover Cropping and Livestock Grazing for Regenerative Viticulture

Caff

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. These discussions were supported by booths with resources from NRCS, Kamprath Seeds, and Lodi Rules. We’re trialing grazing now which is awesome.

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Why Your City Needs an Urban Agriculture Plan & How to Start One

Agritecture Blog

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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The Hard Work of Bringing Kelp to Market

Civil Eats

That day, they’d been out to their four-acre farm and back twice, harvesting a total of 6,300 pounds. One type in particular, kelp—a large brown algae with many species, including sugar kelp— has been hailed as an ecologically beneficial, nutritious superfood that can be farmed on both U.S. coasts—and could help fight climate change.