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Where Are You Reading This? That’s Where Food System Transformation Is Happening

Food Tank

Last year, the city of Chicago launched a composting program that allows residents to drop off food scraps at 15 locations around the city, where they’re collected and turned into compost for soil. When I look out at the state of the food system, I see so much that’s going well. Just take food waste, for example.

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Breaking Barriers & Ground: How Equipment Sharing Empowers Small-Scale Farmers in California

CalCAN

The collective currently shares two mid-sized combine harvesters, one mini-combine harvester, a compost spreader, two seed cleaners, a berm flamer, a no-till drill, and a foliar spray trailer. These tools help their operations do tasks like harvest crops, apply compost, manage weeds, clean grain, plant cover crops, and apply compost tea.

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The Farmers Leaning On Each Other’s Tools

Civil Eats

To get [your mulch or compost] spread in a timely manner was really quite impossible,” said Gonzales-Siemens. Slow Shift to Collective Tool-Sharing Despite these benefits, farm equipment collectives and sharing models are still few and far between in the U.S., The companies are often booked months in advance. “To

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