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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Food Tank

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Philanthropy can help tilt the incentives needed to usher in a regenerative and agroecological transition that centers farmers and landscape stewards and recognizes a shared set of principles. It is possible to forge a more sustainable path. Articles like the one you just read are made possible through the generosity of Food Tank members.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The exact meaning of rewilding can be difficult to pin down, but properly speaking , it involves the landscape-scale restoration of the full (or near enough full) suite of natural processes and species that would be present were it not for human activity. That said, there are issues with both land uses, and these should be recognised.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Earlier this year, CAFF kicked off a massive project in the San Joaquin Valley to help support family farms there and strengthen the local food economy, in partnership with UC Agriculture & Natural Resources (UC ANR) and the Central Valley Community Foundation (CVCF), among others. Why take on such a big project?

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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

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. This specialized, often professionally operated equipment—and all farm equipment , for that matter—can be prohibitively challenging for many farmers to buy and maintain.

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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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The Equation

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

My partner in our farm, Robbie Jaffe, and I have been very involved in trying to speak for the Cuyama Valley community, defending the science of groundwater depletion and our personal experience as farmers and community-members. I am a professional agroecologist trained in ecosystem processes with experience in sustainable agriculture.

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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. The first post details an overview of the markup process, the bill as a whole, and its likely (or unlikely) path to becoming law.

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Sustainable Harvest International

JULY 19, 2022

The crisis in Ukraine reveals that now more than ever, we must embrace a food system grounded in local agroecology. This is simply untrue and ignores the fact that conventional farming degrades land, pollutes water, kills wildlife, and is responsible for about a third of global greenhouse gas emissions. Among the 12.6

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The declaration is key to what will be a two-year process through which countries will converge their work on climate and their work on food in ways that serve the interests of farmers and. Is Agroecology Being Coopted by Big Ag? consumers of all kinds,” said Nabarro. Food Systems Summit Give Corporations Too Much of a Voice?

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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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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The rich stain was a natural consequence of how Holt spent his fall: processing thousands of pounds of black walnuts through the Asheville Nuttery. 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.

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Sustainable Harvest International

MARCH 12, 2025

Thanks to committed donors like you, we made a lasting impact on farming families and the planet. These strategies will benefit farming communities by providing more effective tools and knowledge. The Belize program also partnered with several groups to extend its reach to more farming communities.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Of course, some of these processes are natural—but healthy soils have the resiliency to resist excess erosion, whereas degraded soils are more vulnerable to even natural climatic cycles. Healthy soils, boosted by regenerative farming practices , can sequester more carbon from the atmosphere and more effectively store and drain water.

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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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Share Food Program

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Nice Roots Farm at Share Food Program is in the thick of the growing—and learning!—season. Since spring 2023, 15 different groups of K-8 students from nearby schools have taken field trips to the farm in Allegheny West where they learn about urban growing, nutrition, and wellness, all through a food justice lens. What is Food Justice?

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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. Over the course of Western colonization, those in power have largely dictated a one-size-fits-all approach to farming, often to the detriment of farmers’ livelihoods.

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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. They also bring local government leaders together to develop plans that integrate urban agriculture into city planning processes.

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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. from Chapter 22 of NCA5.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Farmer Ibrahim at the Juniper Gardens Training Farm in Kansas City, KS. For example, OUAIP works with the Farm Service Agency (FSA) to ensure support for all types of agricultural practices regardless of the size of an operation, where it is located, or the techniques used for production.

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

Railways and natural resources were diverted away from Allensworth to white-owned interests and farm holdings. Farms that use extractive agriculture usually are outside the official community line, and therefore they pay no taxes to the communities they pollute. a century ago found their way to Allensworth.

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Caff

JUNE 6, 2023

CAFF’s Biointensive No-Till Project is an on-farm demonstration project partnering with small, diversified vegetable farms in Northern California who are committed to minimizing tillage and interested in learning about how it affects soil health. As a result, it is often viewed as a good indicator of soil health.

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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. That we can tinker with genetic regulatory processes does not mean we understand the complexity of the system. Become a member today by clicking here.

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Share Food Program

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Sankofa Community Farm Sankofa Community Farm is a spiritually-rooted, intergenerational farm uplifting people and cultures of the African diaspora. Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram’s Garden Find Sankofa Community Farm’s chemical-free produce June through November at the Bartram’s Village and Clark Park farmers markets.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 12, 2024

These factory farms not only force animals to live in overcrowded, dirty conditions, they also produce copious amounts of manure, which can cause water pollution and other health hazards. Calves stick their heads out of pens at a farm near Healdsburg, California. farm is 464 acres.) Reichardt Duck Farm settled the suit. “We

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The Equation

APRIL 18, 2023

Food that is grown with agroecological practices by small and midsize farmers, harvested by farmworkers who are paid fairly and have labor protections, and distributed locally or regionally to all communities is key to healthy lives and a healthy planet. Meanwhile, cheap processed food is making too many of us sick, at immense cost.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In this article, Global Farm Metric Trials Manager, Olivia Boothman, shares her experience of visiting Nebraska on behalf of Regen10. Graham, a fifth generation farmer, who has recently started converting the farm to regenerative practices, filled me in. As depressing as this might sound, this is also what made this trip fascinating.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

In this series, we explore the role of metrics in transitioning to a more sustainable food and farming system, and we meet some of the people who are leading the way. For many people, the way to change our approach is to re-consider how we value nature. But there is a more fundamental value issue here.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 19, 2023

By Luz Ballesteros Gonzalez, NCAT Agriculture Specialist The Hub of Prosperity is an urban 5-acre farm managed by sustainable agriculture students like me at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Edinburg, Texas. A key point that is discussed in our tours of the farm and with community garden members is why we use drip irrigation.

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Food Tank

MAY 1, 2024

Food production “doesn’t even start at the farm, it starts at the fossils. CCS is a process that absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to reuse or store in gigantic facilities, pipelines, or the oceans. Because of the close ties between fossil fuels and agrochemicals, “they are one and the same industry,” Tostado says.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Through captivating case studies, Thurow’s hopeful book showcases farmers who have boldly gone against the grain of modern agriculture orthodoxy and are instead embracing regenerative practices—like agroecology and permaculture—that restore soil health, enhance biodiversity, and promote resilience against climate change.

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Sustainable Food Trust

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Adele shares her reflections on this year’s conference, considering what needs to happen once the ‘strange bubble’ of COP has popped and easy words must be followed with committed action on food and farming. It was a very busy, productive and actually pretty hopeful week in Dubai for the world of food and farming.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

more food secure and our farming practices more environmentally friendly , we expect to see both an increase in and a deepening of these conversations. Regenerative Agriculture and Nature-Based Solutions Coffee crops grow alongside other plants in what is known as an Agroforestry approach to farming. Image sourced from Urban Ag News.

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The Equation

OCTOBER 23, 2023

These properties can get trapped in the probate process and reside under a clouded title, which makes them ineligible for bank loans or most government programs. Predatory speculators exploit this by finding heirs willing to sell their shares, leading to the loss of land from people who want it.

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