Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

They farm on 130 acres of the land on which her father and grandfather had raised hogs. Johnson added trees to grazing land to create silvopastures, enhanced existing windbreaks and planted a micro-orchard with fruit and nut trees. Johnson felt called back to the land in 2010 after living in California for 18 years.

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Acre Farming Farming Crop 105

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Small footprint, big potential “Microgreens” is a term used to describe the tender, edible seedlings of various herbs, vegetables and grains typically seeded in shallow, soil-filled trays, grown under natural or artificial light, then harvested within two weeks of germination. acre lot has ample space for the growing business.

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Cultivation Crop Real Estate Food 97

Daily Yonder

MARCH 27, 2024

Strengthening an Agricultural Economy Is not “Rocket Science” Taber said crops like vegetables, fruits, and nuts are more profitable per acre than crops like tobacco, which has been a historic staple crop for North Carolina. Altapass Orchard in Spruce Pine, North Carolina overlooks the Appalachian mountains on the scenic Blue Ridge Parkway.

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Ruralism Agriculture Agriculture Farmland 141

Modern Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

As Brian Paddock walks through his 12-and-a-half acres of almond trees, he’s taking in everything. It’a not just because it’s cheaper and not just because Capay Hills Orchard , his farm just north of Sacramento, is in an area of California that is increasingly drought-prone. Plus, there are multiple uses for each nut harvested.

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Orchard Crop Family Farming Farming 74

Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

We’ve got 150 acres of grain.” Prior to that, they had all either harvested by hand, an intensely laborious process, or hired someone with a combine. Next, they purchased a no-drill seeder together, and it allowed them to plant rows of grain directly into orchards and pastures without tilling, a practice known to benefit the soil.

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Grain Farming Farming Orchard 94

CalCAN

AUGUST 10, 2023

Christine Gemperle, almond farmer and CalCAN advisor recently drove to Sacramento from her orchard in Ceres to testify in support of equipment sharing and sustainable agriculture investments alongside CalCAN staff. Christine operates 135 acres of almonds with her brother in Stanislaus and Merced counties.

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Orchard Farming Farming Agriculture 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

slide-intro --> A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. 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.

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Farming Farming Orchard Acre 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 11, 2023

slide-intro --> A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. 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.

Orchard 52

Orchard Acre Pesticide Farming 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 21, 2022

slide-intro --> A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. 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.

Orchard 52

Orchard Acre Pesticide Farming 52

Caff

DECEMBER 15, 2023

We’re starting a pilot vineyard that is going to focus on stacking all those principles on 20 acres of a regenerative vineyard, with the goal to have that grow. You know, if you have a vineyard and your neighbor has a walnut orchard, you don’t need sheep in there at the exact same time.”

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Livestock Crop Farming Farming 52

Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

Before 7 th October 2023 , farms and orchards covered almost half of Gaza’s total land area and more than 7,500 greenhouses contributed to an agricultural sector normally worth over $575m a year. It’s not just settlers taking land in the West Bank; in March the Israeli government annexed nearly 2,000 acres of the fertile Jordan Valley.

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Farming Farming Livestock Food 97

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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Pasture Ranching Supply Chain Cattle 99

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The front bucket was half full as he drove the tractor forward on a gentle slope of his 10-acre produce and poultry farm in Greensboro, Georgia. In late July 2020, he was driving a 1971 International Harvester 1066 tractor—which did not have an ROPS or a seatbelt—with a trailer near the edge of a bumpy road before sunrise.

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Tractor Farming Farming Acre 76

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. Sweetland tends, harvests and sells the blueberries, and shares profits with the landowner. “We The University of Maine is studying this example of dual-use agrivoltaics.

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Agriculture Agriculture Construction Farming 52

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 6, 2023

We were in the parking lot of Island Center Forest, a 440-acre wooded park home to miles of hiking trails and one large pond where birdwatchers flock. Student lab assistants traversed a 20-acre section of the 300-acre park, treading in straight lines regardless of topography, up and down steep inclines, over and under downed branches.

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Ecology Seeding Acre Processing 115

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Westlands Water District was formed to distribute that water to 600,000 acres of land. If the most recent decade is a guide to the future, he says, the district can only expect to receive enough water to grow crops on about 300,000 acres in an average year. Growers now are ripping out some of those parched orchards.

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Farming Farming Distribution Acre 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 20, 2023

The bitterest irony of all is that the coffee, bananas, and mangoes that the migrants are helping to harvest are destined for the very country responsible for keeping them here. And one of the key reasons for that is the explosion in demand for fresh fruit, including the mangoes that Carme and so many others harvest.

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Agriculture Agriculture Plantation Harvest 52

Civil Eats

JUNE 29, 2023

Finally, in 2017, they convinced Sakuma Brothers Farms—which occupies more than 1,500 acres in Washington State—to sign a pioneering collective bargaining agreement. Finally, in 2017, they found the 75-acre plot where the co-op farms today. Then we harvest in September. We planted and grew corn, and then we’d harvest it.

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Greenhouse Farming Farming Food 52

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Even monarch butterflies have lost habitat due to the prevalence of monocrop avocado orchards, along the once lush, biodiverse hillsides of Michoacán in Mexico. Yet Hartman and his family manage to work less and make the same income on one third of an acre—the renowned Clay Bottom Farm —as they did on an acre.

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Food Farming Farming Seeding 113