Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

From pasture to parlor, its organic, butterfat-rich milk travels less than 10 miles, produced by a herd of Jerseys pasture-raised on the misty coast. The ice cream shop is an extension of the Nicholson family’s sixth-generation, 120-acre farm in nearby Ferndale. A few sleek Jersey cows from the Foggy Bottoms Boys pastures.

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Pasture Production Marketing Supply Chain 120

Modern Farmer

JULY 2, 2024

Ortiz sees GoFarm’s role as a hub that takes care of the logistics of supporting small farms and feeding the community. GoFarm’s incubator farmer program gives beginning farmers access to a quarter acre of land for the two-year duration of the program. Pasture-raised eggs can be $3, $5 or $7 a carton.

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Food Marketing Farming Farming 114

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 school ran an outdoor hydroponics farm this summer to help work out logistics on the soon-to-be-built indoor vertical farm.

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Food Farming Farming Agroecology 98

The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 7, 2021

A few years ago we turned a 15-acre field into slurry with 500 head during a spring snow melt. But, like others, he convened them at hotel conference centers where food, logistics, and setting were always an issue. From a distance, the field looked like it had been plowed. The following year it was solid weeds.

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Plowing Pruning Logistics Seeding 52

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management. It won’t be easy.

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Supply Chain Food Agriculture Agriculture 124

UnderstandingAg

APRIL 30, 2023

Some farms have limited acres to apply manure and feel forced to apply at maximum regulatory rates to get the pits emptied. Practices we have seen work well include: Keeping slurry application rates to 3000-4000 gal/acre/application. Applying to perennial pasture after a high-stock-density graze. Far from it.

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Manure Pasture Fertilizer Crop 52