Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

Bakersfield College boasts an Edible Gardens Catalog program, Kalamazoo Community College offers Sustainable Food Systems Competencies coursework and Greenfield Community College’s Farm and Food Systems covers mushroom foraging and cultivation, permaculture design, beekeeping, food preservation and more.

Food 97

Food Farming Farming Agroecology 97

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

NSAC encourages Congress to adopt this change in a final farm bill, as well as similar climate-targeting language for all major conservation programs. Farming Opportunities Training and Outreach (FOTO) program FFNSA reauthorizes FOTO and maintains $50 million in mandatory funding.

Farming 97

Farming Farming Agriculture Agriculture 97

ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Virginia Tech and Virginia Cooperative Extension’s project team conducted 11 semi-structured interviews and conversations across Virginia to learn and better understand farmers’ and ranchers’ agroecological motivations and overall values related to the protection and conservation of water resources.

Cattle 52

Cattle Pasture Poultry Farming 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. In Into the Weeds , however, Tama Matsuoka Wong introduces readers to the anthropological concept of the “ middle ground ” between foraging and farming.

Food 124

Food Farming Farming Forage 124