Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The more he and his neighbors farmed, the less they grew. They eventually had no option but to stop farming and let the land heal. They also embraced crop diversity by adopting traditional crops, including hardier, more nutritious varieties that had been orphaned by modern agriculture demands. But they can’t do it alone.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A Bigger Conversation’s Director, Pat Thomas, shares insights from the ‘Agroecological Intelligence’ project, which spoke with agroecological farmers and growers to establish a criteria for adopting new technologies. But not everyone buys in to this narrative.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2025

Irrigation and farm equipment also depend on fossil fuels. Fossil fuels make it possible to grow crops in vast monocultures using pesticides instead of biodiversity to deter insects and employing energy-intensive synthetic fertilizers that actually deplete natural soil health and fertility. Meanwhile, we collectively pay the true cost.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

Decolonizing African Agriculture: Food Security, Agroecology and the Need for Radical Transformation by William G. Moseley sets out to answer why so many approaches to farming and food policy in sub-Saharan Africa have failed. Moseley In Decolonizing African Agriculture , William G. But she retains memories of her mothers kitchen.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

When Paula and Dale Boles took over Dale’s father’s farmland in North Carolina, they thought that poultry farming would be a good way to work the land until they were ready to pass it on to their children. But, over the last several years, there has been a wave of efforts to find ways to support farmers transitioning out of factory farming.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Until a few years ago, Songbird Farm in Unity, Maine, grew wheat, rye, oats, and corn, as well as an array of vegetables in three high tunnel greenhouses, and supported a community-supported agriculture (CSA) program for over 100 customers. Consumption of crops or animals grown on PFAS-contaminated land puts humans at high risk of illness.

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Cropaia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in regenerative agriculture, a holistic approach to farming that seeks to restore and revitalize the land while improving crop yields and overall farm profitability. This means increased crop yields and reduced inputs like fertilizers and pesticides.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 9, 2024

By Justin Duncan, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist For the past couple years, NCAT has worked with the Southern Risk Management Education Center to provide training to farmers on how to better decide which crops to plant based on agroecological methods. What is growing on the site already that is related to the desired crop?

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

By Justin Duncan, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist For the past couple years, NCAT has worked with the Southern Risk Management Education Center to provide training to farmers on how to better decide which crops to plant based on agroecological methods. I may not talk to them, but I do listen, or, rather, observe them.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

On the back 16 acres of Walla Walla Community College, 30 Red Angus cows stand munching on hairy vetch, ryegrass and other cover crops that were planted to help restore the soil. Those cows are just one part of the closed-loop system the college aims to highlight in its new farm-to-fork program that is rolling out this school year.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Initially, farmers and corporations alike wade into the shallow end, implementing relatively simple and inexpensive techniques such as cover cropping and minimal tillage to optimize for soil health and carbon sequestration. In the deep end, outcomes are sought to benefit the farmers and stewards of whole landscapes themselves.

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Sustainable Harvest International

OCTOBER 2, 2024

While beneficial farming practices should be the norm, the unfortunate reality is that many individuals and companies farm in a destructive way, negatively impacting us all. Once used on a farm, it takes significant time and effort to restore the soil to a healthy state.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

SCN works with nonprofits and schools in the region to integrate farming and food production into their work and advocates for local policy that supports school gardens, urban farms, and community gardens and helps get fresh produce to food insecure residents. Are you still actively involved in farming?

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

We wanted to stop the fires and decided to introduce crops that would help us do so,” Garcia Martinez remembers. “We Huberto Juan Martinez showing his vanilla plants at his agroecological plantation. The agroforestry system also provides farmers with the chance to diversify their crops. Photography by Noel Rojo.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 20, 2024

347.563.6408 Release: House Farm Bill Misses Opportunity to Move Agriculture Forward Washington, DC, May 20, 2024 – On Friday, May 17, the House Agriculture Committee released the long-awaited Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024 (FFNSA ). The Farm, Food, and National Security Act fundamentally fails to meet the moment.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 5, 2024

Farmers, for example, are experimenting with the wild seed relatives of domestic crops that may be able to withstand extreme weather. As Saltwater Encroaches on Farms, Solutions Emerge From the Marshes In the Mid-Atlantic, sea level rise due to climate change is already changing what farmers can grow.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth post in a multi-part blog series analyzing the Farm Food and National Security Act of 2024 (FFNSA), which was reported out of the House Agriculture Committee on Friday, May 24. Overall, FFNSA misses the mark and fails to sufficiently address the most fundamental threat to our food and farm system.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

He found this disconcerting, not only for himself but the future of small-scale grain farming in California, once known for its golden hills of grain. As California has lost much of its grain to higher value crops, small flour mills and grain cleaning businesses have disappeared, too. “We’ve got 150 acres of grain.”

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

Urban ag is any kind of food production space within a city, inclusive of commercial farms that grow and sell directly to consumers, non-profit farms that serve a broader mission, community gardens, school gardens and even vacant lots turned into thriving personal gardens or homesteads. Oxford Tract research farm at UC Berkeley.

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Sustainable Harvest International

JULY 19, 2022

The crisis in Ukraine reveals the folly of a global food system where a few staple crops are produced in a select few countries. The crisis in Ukraine reveals that now more than ever, we must embrace a food system grounded in local agroecology. Among the 12.6

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

Attending this year’s Oxford Real Farming Conference earlier this month, SFT Content Editor, Alicia Miller, shares more on the sessions that took place, in her round-up article on this year’s event. The commons offer the most obvious route – if we can meaningfully reactivate it. Is it possible that it’s worn itself out?

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Poor soils can cut crop yields by up to 50 percent—which, if we’re not careful, could result in more soil being tilled to grow more crops, which degrades more soil, which pushes us closer to climate catastrophe. Let’s put this in the next Farm Bill! And while poor soils hurt the environment, good soils can help repair the earth.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

A reference to diversification is fundamentally a reference to restoring the ecosystem function of farmland by allowing living organisms to reclaim roles that beginning in the mid-20th century have been assigned largely to synthetic chemicals or machines in conventional farming. However, NSAC covers the land access issue elsewhere.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 1, 2023

These severe conditions have a tremendous impact on our food system, affecting everything from crop yields to working conditions on farms. Farms Adapt to Climate Change Sorghum—popular among young, BIPOC, and under-resourced farmers—has extra long roots that allow it to withstand drought and sequester greenhouse gasses.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

This year our farm trials will test the use of the Global Farm Metric framework to enable farmers and others to navigate the complex world of farm sustainability, so that they can support and drive change. The trials will also explore the value of assessing vital aspects of farm sustainability that are sometimes overlooked.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

This flexible technology and others like it are being harnessed by farmer-researcher teams to address the specific challenges of farming in semiarid climates. Environmental stressors to crops—decreased and erratic rainfall, pests, and blights—are worsening with climate change. Food and Agriculture Organization.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

However, the publication also presents planned solutions to reduce emissions and transform toward increasingly robust farming systems. Despite the challenges ahead, substantial reason for optimism lies both in suggested routes to emissions reductions and adaptation of farming systems.

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Sustainable Harvest International

APRIL 9, 2024

Agroforestry and agroecology are practices central to the regenerative agriculture efforts of Initiative 20x20 partner Sustainable Harvest International (SHI). In agroforestry, trees are a crucial part of the farming system. When one crop fails due to extreme weather or an insect plague, it’s not a catastrophic loss.

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Sustainable Harvest International

AUGUST 4, 2022

In January 2022, SHI launched Promoter 4 Change, a farmer-to-farmer training program creating rural climate resilience, biodiversity, and new economic opportunities through sustainable farming practices. Crop failure and low yields, in turn, have exacerbated political instability, poverty, and migration. million trees.

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Caff

JANUARY 17, 2023

As a farmer-serving organization, we recognize the historic and lasting inequities in the California food and farming system. Currently our programming is focused in four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 29, 2023

Biologicals are farm inputs that come from living organisms like plants and bacteria rather than from fossil fuels, the source of nearly all modern pesticides and fertilizers. Microbes can share genetic material with each other far more readily than crops and can travel great distances on the wind.

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Food Tank

JULY 2, 2024

A Call to Farms: Reconnecting to Nature, Food, and Community in a Modern World by Jennifer Grayson (Forthcoming July 9, 2024) Investigative journalist Jennifer Grayson writes an eye-opening account that details the challenges new farmers will face in an era of climate change and food inequality.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The base of the restoration work is in their rotational farming system, also called the fallow system or swidden agriculture. The type of rotational farming that Hin Lad Nai engages in, which includes what is sometimes known as slashing and burning, did not originally fit with the Thai government’s conservation strategy.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Title: Ecological Farming Program Specialist I or II Location: California / Hybrid – partially remote option (Davis, CA Region preferred) FTE: 1.0 CAFF is a California-based membership organization that includes family farmers and other community members passionate about local food, farming, and the environment.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In addition, the report says rice production is particularly vulnerable to climate change, and in the long run, wheat will also experience declines, forcing the relocation of production to higher elevation or the farming of alternative crops.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Food Well Alliance Food Well Alliance brings together leaders of the local food movement to support more than 300 community gardens, urban farms, and orchards in metro Atlanta. And in their Farm to School initiatives, they engage children with local, healthy food in cafeterias and classrooms.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Since 2017, the cooperative has been piloting new ways to collect, process, and market tree crops, with the goal of catalyzing a local nut-based economy. European settlers also made use of wild tree crops, particularly black walnuts, and Holt says numerous companies processed and sold them through the middle of the 20th century.

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