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

Civil Eats

The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county. In the rural Hecks Grove communityless than a mile from where Robert E. acres where his great-grandfather Byron had been enslaved.

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EP 73 Diversity is Resiliency – SoR Part Six

RR2CS

During the growing season of 2023 as summer turned into fall, the Rural Routes to Climate Solutions podcast and Regeneration Canada were on the final leg of the Stories of Regeneration tour. The post EP 73 Diversity is Resiliency – SoR Part Six appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions.

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In Bad Naturalist, an Author Settles on a Mountain Top and Tries to Farm

Modern Farmer

Years ago, author Paula Whyman left her DC-area home in search of a rural spot, hoping to get back to nature. What she found was 200 acres of old farmland atop a Virginia mountain. Two hundred years ago, many of these hillsides were timbered for orchards. In the past decade, farmers stopped grazing cattle on the mountain.

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On the Ground with the Midwest Farmers Going All-In On Agroforestry

Modern Farmer

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. Crombie is optimistic that agroforestry will go a long way in restoring land but also rural communities.

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JD Vance Funded AcreTrader. Here’s Why That Matters.

Civil Eats

Its current offerings include 83 acres of almond trees in the San Joaquin Valley, advertised as “an opportunity to invest in a water-secure almond orchard in the world’s most productive almond-producing region.” That’s the promise that AcreTrader , a company with the mission of simplifying investing in valuable U.S.

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The Farmers Leaning On Each Other’s Tools

Civil Eats

We’ve got 150 acres of grain.” 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. It has allowed us to do much more creative things in orchard systems,” said Gonzales-Siemens.

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Planting the ‘Prairie Berry’ — Solstice Berry Farm, Crossfield, Alberta

RR2CS

Marsha enrolled in the Horticulture Certificate program through Olds College, and they got started in 2003, planting 5 acres of Saskatoon bushes. The following year, they planted another 5 acres, and so on. The airflow is important for the orchard.”

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