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Young Farmers Cultivating Change

Modern Farmer

Graeme Foers Lost Meadows Apiaries & Meadery Location: Essa Township, Ontario, Canada Age: 33 Years Farming: 13 Tell us a bit about your farm: My farming season begins early February with the maple syrup season. I keep the honey separate from each meadow and each month.

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Changing How We Farm Might Protect Wild Mammals—and Fight Climate Change

Civil Eats

They disperse seeds, pollinate, and transfer nutrients across landscapes, supporting healthy plant populations, and they alter their environments in ways that enhance biodiversity. land, with cropland expanding by 1 million acres per year, fueling habitat loss for wildlife and mammals. They even mitigate climate change.

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How Crop Insurance Prevents Some Farmers From Adapting to Climate Change

Civil Eats

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 planted wheat and other grains directly into the meadows and relied solely on rainfall for much of his acreage. I just seed the minimal level of 10 pounds [of flax] an acre with my peas.

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Can Seaweed Save American Shellfish?

Civil Eats

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. Rich in minerals, kelp grows quickly and doesn’t require fertilizer. Now, she says, “it takes us a while to even get a couple of dozen clams.

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Fifty years of nurturing nature

Sustainable Food Trust

SFT CEO Patrick Holden and his wife Becky Holden farm 300 acres in West Wales and produce a raw milk cheddar called Hafod with the milk from their herd of Ayrshire cows. Patrick has been using diverse seed mixes since he started at Bwlchwernen in 1973.

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