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John Zander’s family has owned a stretch of land along New Jersey’s southern coast for 30 years, but he only recently dubbed the farm “Cohansey Meadows.” Meadows for the term that residents of the region use to refer to the vast marshes that create a fluid transition between solid ground and the water of the Delaware Bay.
Graeme Foers Lost Meadows Apiaries & Meadery Location: Essa Township, Ontario, Canada Age: 33 Years Farming: 13 Tell us a bit about your farm: My farming season begins early February with the maple syrup season. I keep the honey separate from each meadow and each month. Why farming? What drew you to it as a livelihood?
We had grand plans to install a curated pollinator garden in the front and a vegetable garden with a managed meadow in the back. I knew that the US’s 40 million acres of lawns contribute to greenhouse gas emissions through consistent mowing and drink up to nine billion gallons of water daily.
But even during these dormant months, across 17 rolling acres just 30 miles east of Washington, D.C., Three acres of meadows provide habitat for insects. Compared to staple crops like corn and rice, wine grapes barely occupy a speck of the world’s farmland, at about 18 million acres. the landscape is filled with life.
And growing meat in the lab, from cultured stem cells in bioreactors will eliminate the need for raising livestock, and all the environmental havoc that goes with it. If we’re really serious about forestalling famine, we need to stop feeding so much grain to livestock, and save the wheat, corn, and rice we grow for human consumption.
Alfalfa hay, the nutrient-rich backbone of the dairy, beef and horse industries in the West, produces more protein per acre than any other field crop. To grow that much alfalfa would require about 100 acres of land with about 50,000 gallons of water every day, he estimates. But it comes at a great cost to the region’s water supply.
land, with cropland expanding by 1 million acres per year, fueling habitat loss for wildlife and mammals. A good example is Christina Allen’s 10-acre farm in Maryland. One of the main examples is the wolf population in the American West—and you have in Montana, Idaho, and California issues with predation of livestock by predators.”
Graves looks at how the country-wide shift from traditional mixed farms with carefully managed infield-outfield systems to mass livestock farming – primarily of sheep – has taken its toll. A life-enhancing read from the author of the bestselling gem The Secret Life of Cows.”
Altogether, more than 159 million poultry livestock in the U.S. I heard a similar argument when I paid a visit to David Whittaker at Oak Meadows Farm , a pasture-raised poultry and hog operation near where I live in Whatcom County, WA. In December, some 13.2 In the first six weeks of this year, 23.5 million have already died.
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