Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

Two organizations want to put an end to the wild west of claims and prove, through certification, that food labeled regenerative is genuinely the gold standard of sustainability and not just another marketing buzzword. Land to Market frames its products as coming “from land that is regenerating.” But it’s not quite that simple.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Envisioning farming as hyper-specialized, where specializations only converge in a marketable product, misses critical aspects of farming knowledge. Farmer-researcher Eric Barnhorst, for example, conducted research on regenerating fallow fields with the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario in 2022.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

million-acre Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation , where she grew up, the county is among the poorest areas in the United States. The Brewers run cattle and grow some alfalfa across 12,000 acres of grassland that’s a combination of owned land, leased tribal land, and federal trust land. Encompassing part of the 1.4-million-acre

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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 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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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The farm grows seasonal fruits and vegetables on 10 acres in the semi-arid, unincorporated area of Pauma Valley in central San Diego County, on land it rents from the Pauma Band of Luiseño Indians; they partnered with the Luiseño to create a “carbon sink demonstration farm.” Ellee Igoe and Hernan Cavazos. or ‘Are you able to grow that?’

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

But the pawpaw’s two- to three-week harvest window, short shelf life, and delicate skin still make it anathema to the rigid needs of grocery stores and a rare find even at farmers’ markets. Photo credit: Andrew Leahy, Horn Farm Center) Pawpaw’s Agricultural and Ecological Benefits The pawpaw is not only a part of Appalachian heritage.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 5, 2024

A development where political development, economic development, cultural development and ecological development go hand in hand. In the end, they contribute to carbon sequestration in the soil, at five, six, seven tonnes an acre – at least – a year. “Sustainable development from our understanding is holistic development.

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Civil Eats

JULY 15, 2024

Its quarter-acre lot houses custom-built tool sheds and water pumps, solar panels for charging phones and e-bikes, and a motorized sifter designed by Benn. BK Rot is part of a diverse ecology of community compost organizations throughout New York City. In his analysis, such market “solutions” tend to perpetuate social inequities. “We

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 24, 2024

It broke up the people and the ecology of the landscape and parceled it into the British land title system. And now we’re in 2024, we have market failure conditions for agriculture. And there’s a low tolerance at the institutional level for recognizing those market failure conditions.

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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.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Still in its research phase, the 86-acre project is operated by Ocean Rainforest, a company that aims to fight climate change by growing seaweed at scale: 1 million tons a year by 2030. seaweed farm of 1 to 4 acres—and a new frontier for ocean farming. seaweed farm of 1 to 4 acres—and a new frontier for ocean farming.

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Caff

JULY 19, 2023

Bruce Lopes demonstrating the machine used to transplant rice plugs into a field After discussing their trials and tribulations, exposing their need for value-added infrastructure, Claire Tauber provided oppo rtune information of farm-to-market opportunities for growers, particularly farm to school opportunities. hosting school trips).

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

They established themselves at regional farmers markets, and sold produce through Viva Farms. They expanded from just half an acre to having 10 acres at Viva Farms and 10 acres on a nearby piece of land. Viva Farms owns or leases over 100 acres in Washington state. And then that nearby land went up for sale.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

These strategies can apply to the market gardener or home gardener, and have applications for larger-scale vegetable production. Although no-till implies not tilling at all, many no-till market gardeners still rely on some form of light tillage to create a seed bed or apply copious amounts of compost as a mulch to create a seed bed.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The 260-acre ranch butts up against the West Elk Mountains, four miles east of the West Elk Wilderness, almost smack-dab in the middle of where gray wolves could be released this winter. “A Then I direct-market and sell the meat.” He purchases weaned calves and finishes most of them on an 80-acre pasture on the ranch.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

When farmers are able to control how, where, and when their animals move between pastures, they can more easily accomplish ecological goals that might include increasing soil carbon, reducing water pollution, or incorporating trees. At night, the goats sleep in a barn built in the mid-1800s from large blocks of local stone and weathered wood.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 8, 2024

Witt’s home in South Egremont is a scant mile from Indian Line Farm, the nation’s first CSA; together, the pair of plots represents 28 total acres stemming from another of Witt’s passion projects. Conservation land trusts can play a key role in developing land-use plans with ecological considerations. HVS: What are the roadblocks here?

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2023

Given all that, the market, which stood at $15 billion two years ago, is projected to hit $24.92 Now, they’re managing a 5-acre sea farm in Englishman Bay and cultivating thousands of pounds of kelp in the process. Cascadia Seaweed , also founded in 2019, operates eight farms covering 62 acres. billion in 2028. Since most U.S.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The White Oak Initiative , a group of researchers, government agencies and industry insiders dedicated to conservation, estimates that there are more than 100 million acres of white oak across the US, and roughly 75 percent of that is mature. But it’s also incredibly important ecologically. It’s a money-maker for the forestry industry.

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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. Island Center Forest is on Vashon Island, southwest of Seattle. Mustin’s summer home is on Vashon, and my partner and I have a small farm here.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A daytime sleep schedule can curb quality time spent with loved ones, as well as limit when wares can be sold or traded in local markets. to beat the heat, collecting milk from their buffalo and preparing products to sell in the market during the dusky hours of the morning. We are not working at night, said Rabari.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Over the COVID-19 pandemic, fraud escalated in many sectors, and more fraudulent food items entered the market as criminals capitalized on fears of food shortages and as fewer inspectors were available. Organic farming is a practice that emphasizes natural processes, ecological balance and the conserving of resources.

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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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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Wisconsin producers have always been innovative and open to exploring ways to diversify their agriculture systems, provide their products to new markets and be good stewards of the land,” says Josh Odekirk, acting state conservationist for the Wisconsin NRCS. has always been ecologically minded.

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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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The Equation

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Following the Civil War and General Sherman’s Field Order 15 , which set aside roughly 400,000 acres in forty-acre sections for emancipated formerly enslaved people, many Freemen developed a network of towns along the stretch of coastal land between Northeastern Florida and Cape Fear, North Carolina.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. Friendly fescue hit the market in 2000, developed by Pennington Seed, Inc. It doesn’t help that endophyte-free fescue — the one that fails in the winter — remains on the market.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Friday Morning Summit: REGISTER HERE! And that afternoon, we’ll discuss “ The Role of Technology at The Nexus of Affordability, Nutrition, and Food Waste ” at a summit co-hosted by Food Tank, Flashfood, Divert, ReFED and Apeel.

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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. And so far the demand has been good.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 3, 2024

Brooklyn Grange’s massive rooftop farms —which on a few acres produce more than 100,000 pounds of produce for markets, wholesale buyers, CSAs, and the city’s largest convention center each year—were not. In New York City, for example, the only U.S. city represented, seven community gardens run by AmeriCorps were included.

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ATTRA

JULY 18, 2023

Solar panels have been installed over about 11 acres of wild blueberry plants in the first project in Maine to collocate solar electric production with wild blueberry cultivation. However, he didn’t want to see acres of wild blueberries destroyed in the process of constructing a solar array. megawatts of DC power.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 13, 2023

There are 2019 vintages available and 2021 vintages, but there’s a big hole in the market where 2020 wines should be, especially Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa and Sonoma counties. Most of the 340-acre ranch is undeveloped, and Morison purposely kept it that way for 25 years. “My For that, blame wildfires.

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RR2CS

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Eventually, they were growing food on 1-acre of land spread out on multiple plots throughout the city. Four years later, Reclaim Urban Farm produced vegetables and micro-greens for more than 40 restaurants, to retailers, CSA-members, and at the City Market downtown. He ended up having to till under several acres worth of crops.

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Caff

APRIL 22, 2021

This Earth Day, CAFF is proud to endorse this bill on behalf of our members as part of the solution to the climate crisis, recognizing the invaluable role that ecologically-focused farmers and ranchers can play. There would also be additional technical assistance from NRCS and on marketing for these groups.

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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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