Civil Eats

MARCH 19, 2024

To make the best use of space, many farms will dispose of the blocks after a single flush, but each block is capable of several rounds of mushroom production. The vast majority—95 percent—of the mushroom production in the U.S. The bags are sliced open when the mycelium is ready, and out sprouts the first “flush” of mushrooms.

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Compost Farming Farming Logistics 138

Caff

JANUARY 24, 2024

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. A participant breaks open some packed spawn material to spread through the straw.

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Straw Greenhouse Livestock Farming 52

Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

If the end game is simply more mass production and consumption, with the thought that all of this material will quickly degrade or find its way to recycling, our oceans and landfills of trash will only grow. The polymer can yield various end products depending on the twisting of yarns.

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Textiles Manufacturing Production Processing 117

Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Farmers Michael Walton, Graham Robson, Nigel Moore and David and Annabel Stanners already farm very sustainably and extensively, but only a small section of the land can be used for feed production, the rest is too steep, exposed and wet. At present he farms 485 acres, of which he owns 160. Michael Walton: cutting costs but how?

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Pasture Straw Farming Farming 69

Modern Farmer

JULY 22, 2024

Then, in 2021, the city changed the rules about farming and Owczarski went from having more than an acre in production to having about three city blocks. That was the last straw for Owczarski. During the pandemic, Owczarski saw a noticeable increase in need and a decrease in formal support. Photography by Monica Owczarski. “We

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Food Farming Farming Distribution 94

Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2023

Burger, who owns Bethel Springs Farm on 3 acres in Rickreall, Oregon with her husband, grows copious amounts of Rockwell beans, along with a host of other vegetables most likely to make an appearance in a winter soup. The final straw for Hachmyer was losing half of her crops in 2021 to drought.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 52

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

SFT CEO Patrick Holden and his wife Becky Holden farm 300 acres in West Wales and produce a raw milk cheddar called Hafod with the milk from their herd of Ayrshire cows. We farm 300 acres, and each field has its own unique identity, character and distinctiveness.

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Farming Farming Meadow Straw 52

Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

Over that time, only a handful of smaller-scale research projects have attempted to document current sediment contaminants on what is now almost 20,000 acres of exposed playa that is adding dust to the region’s already poor air quality. But the effort is woefully behind schedule. As of March 2023, only 290 had been completed.

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Pesticide Acre Agriculture Agriculture 98

Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

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”. Every Thursday, a group of 20 to 25 is transported in a trailer with thick straw bedding to a small abattoir which is just over six miles away.

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Farming Farming Straw Pasture 52

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

This reached its most extreme level in the 1970s, when tens of thousands of acres of straw were burned in the fields every summer in the UK, sometimes setting fire to hedgerows as well. Instead, they are undertaken on land that has been degraded by decades of continuous arable production.

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Ploughing Crop Yield Farming 52

Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

That’s how, a year later, he ended up at the largest cattle ranch in Montana, where the only thing more vast than its approximately 380,000 acres is the wealth and power of the man who owns it: one Rupert Murdoch. There is no doubt that globally, methane and other emissions from beef production are contributing to climate change.

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Ranching Cattle Production Food 143

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In an effort to win swing votes in the shale-boom heartland of Pennsylvania, she has reversed course on her past opposition to fracking, and she has proudly touted the record levels of oil and gas production seen under the current administration. Trump-era tariff fights during the U.S. grocery store prices.

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