Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

Textiles are a major source of microplastics in the ocean, where they weave their way into the food chain, causing untold harms to marine life. There is nowhere near enough fiber recycling infrastructure in the US, where 85 percent of used clothes and other textiles get sent to the landfill. percent of the world’s farmland but uses 4.7

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Over the next five years, the program hopes to sign up 100 agricultural operations and impact two million acres of land. At least 40 percent of all program benefits will go to small and underserved farmers, and a special initiative is encouraging Black farmers in southern states to grow climate-smart cotton.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

I had to rely on others to eat, and it was really difficult,” says Bista, who is one of six refugee farmers employed by New Leaf Agriculture, a 20-acre organic operation located in Manor, Texas. At age 30, she was forced to seek asylum in Nepal, and for the next 19 years, she was unable to work or grow her own food. “I

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 113

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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Farming Farming Food Aquaculture 105

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Theyre as fertile as can be. The soybeans and corn are processed into animal feed and ethanol, mostly outside the region; the cotton is exported to textile mills in Asia. The history of how this happenedhow one of the countrys most fertile farming regions became a knot of poverty, hunger, and racial injusticeis complicated and painful.

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Acre Farming Farming Crop 52

Sustainable Harvest International

APRIL 22, 2022

BIODIVERSITY AND NATIVE GARDENS Today, there are 40 million acres of monoculture lawns across the United States that offer minimal benefit to local wildlife. lawns consume 800 million gallons of gasoline to stay neatly trimmed and 3 million tons of nitrogen-based synthetic fertilizer to stay green. Instead, U.S.

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