National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
DECEMBER 15, 2023
After heavy grazing, a mixed summer forage is still building soil. For example, at Eckert’s Farm in Belleville, MO, Chris Eckert has seen extreme freezes killing off parts of his peach orchard. Further, they have added nearly five acres of prairie strips. The mix includes sorghum-sudangrass, sunn hemp, cowpeas, and millet.
Modern Farmer
JULY 10, 2023
After a winter of record snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a sudden warm spell melted the lower reaches, unleashing nearly 40,000 acre-feet of water —a volume equal to more than a tenth of Las Vegas’ annual supply—in 48 hours. His 580-acre farm grows enough forage to supply the herd, so “I’m good with where I’m at,” he adds.
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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. One partner rejuvenated the old apple orchard, planted another 120 heritage-variety trees and started a cider business. “A
Food Environment and Reporting Network
APRIL 25, 2024
By Rowan Jacobsen , July 24, 2019 An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees By Paige Embry , June 20, 2019 In January, with the almond bloom in California’s orchards a month away, beekeepers across the country were fretting over their hives. million acres of the Central Valley. A lot of their bees were dead, or sick.
Civil Eats
MARCH 4, 2024
It’s no wonder that hospital food gets a bad rap, says Santana Diaz, executive chef at the University of California Davis Medical Center, a sprawling, 142-acre campus located in Sacramento, California. As a seeming compromise between nutrition and institutional efficiency, food has long been dished up as an afterthought to patient care.
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’s really about watching the land and meeting nature in the middle.
Agritecture Blog
OCTOBER 13, 2022
That would be solar panels that have been installed across 11 acres of the land where Sweetland farms blueberries in Rockport, Maine. Currently the amount of revenue that a landowner could get from having solar panels over an acre of land could be an order of magnitude more than they’d have from just growing crops.”
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