Caff

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

During the last few years of the Small Farm Innovation Challenge hosted by Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF), a remarkable trio of women—Cole Bush, Lindsey Lusher Shute, and Rachel Greathouse—emerged as leaders in advancing agricultural technology. Curious to learn more about Rachel?

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Embry’s focus on urban agriculture and food justice in Detroit drew a global audience, where he hosted audiences include the British Parliament, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, and distinguished personalities such as Danny Glover, David Korten , and Joanna Macy. This means everyone is involved in the food agricultural system.

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ATTRA

JULY 18, 2023

However, he didn’t want to see acres of wild blueberries destroyed in the process of constructing a solar array. Dual-use solar, also called agrisolar or agrivoltaics, pairs agricultural production and solar electric production on the same land. To do this, the construction area was divided into three sections.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Originally constructed by Native Hawaiians hundreds of years before colonization, the effort resurrected a 1.3-mile Its farming practices also help re-establish a vital ecological role: The irrigated ponds absorb floodwater and filter sediment flowing to the sea while the crops create wildlife habitat and curb invasive plant growth.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Goldfarb spoke with Modern Farmer about his new book, how roads have impacted animals and agriculture and where we might go from here. Your book talks a lot about “road ecology.” A lot of road ecology is about why roadkill happens and what its effects on populations are and how to prevent it. What is that? Author Ben Goldfarb.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Virtual fencing is gaining traction in American agriculture because it can save farmers time and money. When farmers are able to control how, where, and when their animals move between pastures, they can more easily accomplish ecological goals that might include increasing soil carbon, reducing water pollution, or incorporating trees.

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Caff

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The event consisted of a tour through the biologically diverse farm and wrapped up with a discussion focused on the regenerative agriculture practices at Vitis and Ovis as well as issues and adaptations that farmer attendees have been dealing with on their own farms. Gisèle Herren of Vitis and Ovis Farm alongside their flock of grazing ducks.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Later, his focus shifted to urban ecology. In a frequently cited 2009 paper in the journal Frontiers in Ecology , a trio of researchers identified more than 139 shade-tolerant plants that have invaded deeply shaded forests. Stokes, a fit 70-year-old, has kind eyes and a professorial beard.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

This umbrella term includes topics such as biophilic design, an approach to architecture that seeks to connect building occupants more closely to nature; net-zero buildings , constructing new or retrofitting existing buildings for energy efficiency , passive house design ; and so on and so forth.

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Civil Eats

JULY 31, 2024

One type in particular, kelp—a large brown algae with many species, including sugar kelp— has been hailed as an ecologically beneficial, nutritious superfood that can be farmed on both U.S. To process their kelp, Barnacle has slowly constructed a 3,000-square-foot production floor and additional warehouse. Department of Agriculture.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

We stopped burning our forests; there was extensive fire suppression, and there was a lot less subsistence agriculture and disturbance of the landscape,” says John Lhotka , an assistant professor of silviculture at the University of Kentucky, about the change in the 20th century. But it’s also incredibly important ecologically.

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OECD: Environment

JUNE 16, 2023

In Europe, the Po River basin – Italy’s breadbasket – faced the worst drought in 70 years , after rainfall in early 2022 was about half of the yearly average of the past 30 years and caused an estimated EUR 6 billion in damages to agricultural sector. C in drying regions (Figure).

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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Sarah Compson, Associate Director of the Soil Association and International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) Organics International World Board member agrees saying, “it’s important to look behind the label and understand the standards underpinning a certification in order to get a sense of the real difference it makes”.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

Photo credit: USDA Editor’s Note: This guest post by Michael Happ, Program Associate for Climate and Rural Communities at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, (IATP), discusses how popular conservation programs should focus on small-scale and sustainable farms, not industrial-scale farms. as it relates to EQIP.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

At Civil Eats, we immerse ourselves in food and agriculture books throughout the year to deepen our knowledge, stay up to date, and produce robust coverage of the books making an impact in the food and ag space. A condensed version of this gift guide was first sent to Civil Eats members in The Deep Dish newsletter.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 16, 2024

Diversions for agriculture were considered “beneficial,” but many California Native peoples did not farm. When whites first made contact with the Nüümü back in the 1800s, some were impressed enough by the tribes’ agricultural system to write about it in letters and newspapers. He held his father’s hand. “We That’s a big mistake.”

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 25, 2024

The foundation declined to make Eikenberg available for an interview, but Weisblum described the meeting as a constructive conversation. The purpose of this project was made clear in the region’s new name: the Everglades Agricultural Area, or EAA. Over the next few decades, the population in South Florida boomed. The blooms put a $2.7

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