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.

Straw 52

Straw Greenhouse Livestock Farming 52

UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Root crops and tuber beds are generally clean and free of residue after harvest, which make them an easy location to direct seed with any seeder, or broadcast seed, followed by applying a straw mulch. If you live in a high-rainfall climate, I recommend applying straw mulch after seeding to reduce crusting and soil loss.

Crop 89

Crop Cash Crop Seeding Harvest 89

Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 11, 2023

At present he farms 485 acres, of which he owns 160. But last year, he had to bring them in, in December, and they could not return to the pasture until May, which added hugely to the costs for feed and straw. Because of the extreme prices last year, he had to cut down on the amount of fertiliser he spread per acre.

Pasture 67

Pasture Straw Farming Farming 67

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.

Crop 52

Crop Farming Farming Acre 52

Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2024

He mostly grows salad greens across 3 acres of farmland. It is always covered with straw, leaf mold, or wood chips,” says Leah Penniman, the co-founder of Soul Fire Farm in upstate New York. “We The ratio of fungi to bacteria depends on the plants, explains Robb. Photo credit: Adam Cobb) “We never leave our soil bare.

Farming 121

Farming Farming Crop Agriculture 121

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.

Pesticide 83

Pesticide Acre Agriculture Agriculture 83

Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

More than 200,000 acres of cotton is grown in the San Joaquin Valley—”enough to create at least seven pairs of jeans each year for every person in the state,” says Burgess. “We’re not even getting all the natural fibers that are part of food rotations.” The US is the third-largest global cotton producer.

Textiles 102

Textiles Manufacturing Production Processing 102