Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

This helped them buy their first cache of shared equipment: a tiller, a harrow, a manure spreader, a trailer to move equipment between farms, and a log splitter for heating greenhouses with wood. Every year, they pool funds to add to their growing collection of tools. And, at $6,000, he wouldn’t have been able to afford one on his own.

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Grain Orchard Farming Farming 124

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

Alternative Manure Management Practices (AMMP) The FFNSA does not contain a proposal to support AMMP technologies as envisioned in the ARA or the COWS Act. Without robust funding for public research that promotes ecologically-based production systems, scientific and technical innovation is stifled, and U.S.

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Farming Farming Agriculture Agriculture 97

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

However, as with all social-ecological systems , change in any part of the system necessarily requires or causes change in other parts of the system. Who manages land determines which scientific perspectives, crop choices, traditions, and skills shape the landscape, with profound implications for its ecological sustainability.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

The couple show a real passion for nature, as evidenced by the sign at the entrance of their farm which reads, “Ecology now!” And for agroecological farmers and growers, this poses some difficulty. Troed y Rhiw is an 8.5 Diversity is the key,” says Nathan – there is value in having a lot of different crops in the ground.

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Farming Farming Agroecology Crop 52

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Removing livestock for even 10 years from this land can cause an ecological disaster in grassland communities.” Now, they absorb up to 16 inches of rain per hour,” says Jack Algiere, director of agroecology at Stone Barn. The need for fertilizer is lessened as the livestock service the soil through their manure.

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Farming Farming Farmland Livestock 85

Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

The project involves using alternative feeds, like seaweed, for cows (reducing those methane burps), better manure management and growing more grass and feed crops using regenerative agriculture. He argues agroecological systems are “networks of relationships, not collections of practices.

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Agriculture Agriculture Food Production 52

Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Brazil’s national requirement that 30 percent of school food ingredients be sourced from local and regional family farms helps empower and fund women agroecological producers. Meanwhile, in the U.S., Additionally, they say, children must have a voice in policymaking. We no longer trembled with fear.

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