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Understanding the COMET-Planner Tool

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By Cody Brown and Darron Gaus , NCAT Agriculture Specialists Carbon Farm Planning is a rewarding process for producers and conservation planners, as we “dig deep” and find all the potential carbon sinks and soil health practices that can be implemented across the landscape. Designed by Colorado State University, in partnership with the U.S.

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Montana Partnership Reduces Food Waste and Supports Sustainable Gardening and Food Production Through Biochar

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With a bigger staff and a new executive director, they also educate the community, create quality natural fertilizers, and take compost to a new level, all while remaining human-powered. Six years later, Soil Cycle has gone from Lewis picking up scraps from a few clients to six bikers transporting upwards of 60,000 pounds of compost per year.

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How to Start Community Agroforestry Projects: Advice from 11 Forest Gardens

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Cities and counties sometimes are eager to relinquish management of undevelopable or marginalized parcels of land, so check with your local Parks Department or Department of Development to see if they might be willing to lease or sell any of this land for an accessible price. Communicate with the city or county often. Remediate your soils.

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124 Food and Agriculture Organizations to Watch in 2024!

Food Tank

Contributing authors: Liza Greene , Elena Seeley , and Alessandra Uriarte The food and agriculture movement made incredible strides over the last year—but our work isn’t done yet! These groups are continuing to push for food and agriculture systems that are economically, socially, and environmentally just and equitable.

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From Commodification to Conservation: Restoring Agrobiodiversity through Seed Breeding – Part I: 

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

USDA distributed seeds to farmers for free, encouraging growers to save and share seed and to experiment with any crop that could become economically important to US agriculture. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions means moving away from the use of high-energy and polluting nitrogenous fertilizers.

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