Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

We’ve got 150 acres of grain.” This helped them buy their first cache of shared equipment: a tiller, a harrow, a manure spreader, a trailer to move equipment between farms, and a log splitter for heating greenhouses with wood. I was literally not able to find a flour mill at my scale, and we’re not tiny,” he said.

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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. For Eaton’s two acres of vegetable crops, he pays about $1,400 per year. Take mass balance fraud: A producer gets an organic certificate for 100 acres of grain and begins selling grain for those 100 acres.

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Caff

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Hans Herren, Barbara Gemmill-Herren and their daughter Gis è le Herren spoke about how they utilize their combined studies and experiences in ecology, biological control, entomology, and nematology to guide the operation of their small farm. We kicked off the event with introductions from the family.

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Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Composting Organic materials including agricultural residue such as corn stalks and rice hulls, weeds, manure, ash from cookstoves and kitchen waste, such as peels and eggshells, join to create rich, life-giving compost. million acres) are subject to drought and soil degradation. How do family farmers restore soil health?

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

However, as with all social-ecological systems , change in any part of the system necessarily requires or causes change in other parts of the system. Who manages land determines which scientific perspectives, crop choices, traditions, and skills shape the landscape, with profound implications for its ecological sustainability.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Practices That Sequester Carbon and Increase Resilience Within EQIP and CSP in particular, the practices that receive funding through the IRA tend to accomplish multiple ecological goals. Some selections can increase yields and profits per acre. Some of the highest impact comes from agroforestry practices.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

Over that time, only a handful of smaller-scale research projects have attempted to document current sediment contaminants on what is now almost 20,000 acres of exposed playa that is adding dust to the region’s already poor air quality. It’s associated with air quality, ecology, and biologicals in the lake.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

Each of these three conservation activities represents a holistic approach to improving conservation across an entire operation, either by requiring producers to adopt multiple practice enhancements on the same acres or to pursue ambitious, measurable soil health goals, such as increasing organic matter (OM) over the life of their CSP contract.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

PepsiCo wants to spread regenerative agricultural practices across seven million acres, while General Mills recently reported that 115,000 acres are currently enrolled in its regenerative programme (the target is 1 million acres by 2030). Interest in this space is certainly “heating up,” says Andy Zynga , CEO at EIT Food.

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RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

Instead, they set their sights northwest of the city and came to fall in love with 160-acres of “rough northern bush” in Barrhead County. Of the 160-acres, Jenna and Thomas steward 25-acres to grow organic vegetables, herbs, and flowers and raise honeybees. It was literally cooking. That feels like a good place to be.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology estimates that “One teaspoonful of topsoil contains around 1 billion microscopic cells and around 10,000 different species.” A claim repeated in various ways, is that a teaspoonful of healthy soil contains more living organisms than there are people on the planet.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

40 Acres & A Mule Project , United States 40 Acres & A Mule seeks to acquire Black-owned farmland to be used to celebrate and preserve the history, food, and stories of Black culture in food and farming. As we enter a new quarter century, here are 125 organizations to follow and support in 2025.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The organization introduces beneficial plants called green manure/cover crops which fertilize the soil, control weeds, and respond to periods of drought. To help feed the world sustainably, their goal is to conserve 10 billion acres of ocean, 1.6 billion acres of land, and 620,000 miles of rivers.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

That’s how, a year later, he ended up at the largest cattle ranch in Montana, where the only thing more vast than its approximately 380,000 acres is the wealth and power of the man who owns it: one Rupert Murdoch. How do you do that and create ecological change, economic value, and social benefit? It’s not gonna be the last.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

As with all programs, NSAC will continue to analyze the RPFSA’s CSP provisions, including a proposed one-time CSP subprogram focused on enrollment of up to 500,000 acres of native or improved pasture land used for livestock grazing in the Lower Mississippi River Valley to address water quality issues leading to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Meg Wilcox You Can’t Market Manure at Lunchtime: And Other Lessons from the Food Industry for Creating a More Sustainable Company By Maisie Ganzler Many, many years ago, I spent a long time covering the world of sustainable business practices. Additionally, they say, children must have a voice in policymaking.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But instead it shackled us, enslaved us to nefarious scientists bringing us fertilizer and menus from laboratories instead of from God’s ecological womb. You couldn’t pack more animals in a house than you could bring in feedstocks and haul out manure by draft power. Travelers drug manure into hotels. Poop covered the streets.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

On a crisp weekend this past fall, 30 state legislators from across the nation descended on TomKat Ranch , an 1,800-acre ranch focused on regenerative agriculture in Pescadero, California, an hour south of San Francisco.

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