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. We are rural, urban, and suburban,” she said. We are female; we are male.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

On the back 16 acres of Walla Walla Community College, 30 Red Angus cows stand munching on hairy vetch, ryegrass and other cover crops that were planted to help restore the soil. The federal government is trying to help spur growth in these types of programs, too.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 25, 2023

An agency of the Government of Alberta, the board acts as a rural municipal service and, during a crisis, provides support to residents of the region. million acres of farm and ranchland infested by destructive grasshoppers. It will take years for the pastures and perennial forages to recover, and that’s only if conditions improve.

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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.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

After heavy grazing, a mixed summer forage is still building soil. Further, they have added nearly five acres of prairie strips. Rick Hartlieb, of Castanea Farms in Pennsylvania, has used local and state grant resources to help him plant acres of chestnuts and to shift his farm toward silvopasture.

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RR2CS

JANUARY 3, 2024

By Trina Moyles Glen and Kelly Hall have been managing Timber Ridge Ranch, a 480-acre farmland situated an hour south of Calgary near Stavely, Alberta, for over 40 years. Over the last four decades, they have seeded an impressive 5,000 acres, aiming to enhance biodiversity both above and below the soil. Absolutely.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

NSAC hopes that Congress continues to see the wisdom of funding state and tribal soil health programs, either as a new stand-alone program as proposed in the Agriculture Resilience Act (ARA) or as part of RCPP as proposed in the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act in the Senate.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

But blueberry land and other parcels of rural Maine are being increasingly eyed for housing development, and Sweetland feels the wild blueberry sector is under pressure, especially when blueberry market prices drop. We’re looking at everything from orchard crops like apples to potatoes to grazing systems to hay to forage,” he said.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The tall forage stands out in southeastern Minnesota’s corn and soybean fields, which this time of year have been reduced to stubble poking through the snow. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently called on three state agencies to take action to protect the health of rural residents.

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ATTRA

APRIL 2, 2024

We are too aware of the cost of pasture forage restoration, truck fenders, and loss of man hours, but there is also a cost to the health and welfare of our livestock. Therefore, more feed is needed to keep the body warm, and they will lose weight if more forage and supplemental feed are not provided. pounds of feed per day.

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Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

land, with cropland expanding by 1 million acres per year, fueling habitat loss for wildlife and mammals. For instance, agriculture can destroy forest habitats that certain bat species, like the endangered Indiana bat or northern long-eared bat , use for roosting and foraging. Agriculture already takes up over half of U.S.

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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

Last fall, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and more than 150 other organizations, including nutrition, sustainable farming, rural development, racial equity, labor, and environmental groups, sent a joint letter to President Biden, urging him to prod Congress to pass a new farm bill this year that transforms the US food system.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

I’ve been a rural resident and a regenerative farmer for nearly two decades, currently operating an 81-acre farm in a remote corner of northeast Washington State. The question then becomes: How can farmers balance the need for wildlife to live on the landscape with the necessity of producing economically valuable crops?

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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.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Rebel Ventures puts youth at the center of innovating nutritious, enjoyable meals for Philadelphia students, while the Yum Yum Bus , the brainchild of school nutrition workers, ensures that all children who need summer meals get them in rural North Carolina. Meanwhile, in the U.S.,

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Our Staff Reporter Grey Moran has a delightful article about foraging , published in Grist, included in the book. smith Slow Drinks: A Field Guide to Foraging and Fermenting Seasonal Sodas, Botanical Cocktails, Homemade Wines, and More By Danny Childs Danny Childs studied ethnobotany in college. To make an amaro (relatively easy!)

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 28, 2025

Hes also an accountant, squaring the numbers for his central Minnesota farm by hand; a herder, rotating 75 cows between pastures; a crop farmer, raising 300 acres of feed like corn and hay; and a mechanic, repairing the equipment necessary to tend that acreage. Ben Wagner may be a dairy farmer, but that job description is woefully incomplete.

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