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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

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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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Can Agriculture Kick Its Plastic Addiction?

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All told, annual greenhouse gases released from plastic production, landfilling, and incineration total 850 million tons , or 4.5 According to FAO, plastic films such as black mulch and greenhouse covers account for the bulk of annual global use, at more than 8 million tons. percent of global emissions.

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Mushrooms for Wildfire Resilience

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Several years ago, Cheetah Tchudi and his wife Samantha Zangrilli bought 40 acres of undeveloped land in Butte County. Today they raise several types of livestock, tend a one acre herb garden, and produce a variety of culinary grade mushrooms. Cheetah gives a tour of the mushroom growing greenhouses.

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Fungi Are Helping Farmers Unlock the Secrets of Soil Carbon

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The accumulation of carbon in the soil effectively slows the carbon cycle, causing carbon to linger in the ground for a longer period of time rather than quickly releasing into the atmosphere, where it takes the form of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas driving climate change. He mostly grows salad greens across 3 acres of farmland.

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Are Next-Gen Synthetic Fibers the Future of Sustainable Textiles?

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Fashion contributes around 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, second only to big oil. Kintra Fibers has developed a bio-based polyester (56 percent corn-derived) it says greatly reduces greenhouse gas emissions compared to conventional polyester and can be produced with the same equipment. Another big factor is end of life.

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Butcher profile: Will Simkin, Essington Farm Shop, Wolverhampton

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Next to the entrance is an eye-catching display of bedding plants which are grown in one of the farm’s greenhouses. With roughly 230 acres, the farm is relatively small, says Simkin, but “with pigs you can still work at scale, have a viable business and provide excellent animal welfare”.

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As the Salton Sea Shrinks, Agriculture’s Legacy Turns to Dust

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López’s family moved to Salton City from Arizona in 2018 when her then-husband got a job working in greenhouses in the Imperial Valley, south of the sea. The goal is to create wetland wildlife habitat and plant vegetation to suppress dust on 30,000 of the 60,000 acres expected to be exposed by 2028. 1 commodity for the last 64 years.