Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

He used a conventional approach: He diligently mowed his animals’ pastures to control weeds, added lime to make the soil less acidic, and applied fertilizer to boost productivity. “I’m trying to figure out what it looks like to be wedded to a place with more of a conservation mindset while still producing food.”

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

His first book A Small Farm Future argues for the importance of locally self-reliant, agrarian communities and agroecological food production. Organic, Pasture-Fed Beef and Lamb ’ play pretty well in agribusiness boardrooms.[3] Organic, Pasture-Fed Beef and Lamb ’, Guardian, 16 August, cf.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

More than just an explicit set of production practices, this way of farming is known as “agroecology”, and refers to working with, rather than against, nature. And most estimates have shown that land is a limiting factor if all animal-based protein were to be grazed responsibly on pasture, based on current dietary trends.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

And for agroecological farmers and growers, this poses some difficulty. While Tyfu Cymru has been an important developmental body for horticulture, much more is needed to support agroecological fruit and vegetable production in Wales. Finding appropriate machinery for field-scale organic horticulture is hard.”

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

We believe in the importance of an agroecological food system because of its potential to meet the nation’s food needs, whilst providing healthier diets, sequestering carbon and making room for much more wildlife. We have also found that cattle are ideal for grazing our wood pasture sites.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

About once a month, I gulp when I pay £24 or thereabouts for my bird, which justifies its steep price tag because it is reared to the strictest legal ‘traditional’ and truly free-range standard, a slow-maturing variety fed on pasture and cereals, killed at 81 days. How often have you heard that said?

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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.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

But when livestock graze on the same pasture repeatedly, plants don’t have the opportunity to recover and will die. Now, they absorb up to 16 inches of rain per hour,” says Jack Algiere, director of agroecology at Stone Barn. “Removing livestock for even 10 years from this land can cause an ecological disaster in grassland communities.”

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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

The US agriculture sector covers 654 million acres of pasture and rangeland for grazing cattle and another 391 million acres to produce corn, soybeans and other field crop monocultures—and all of them pollute one way or another. Let me give you a better idea of what we’re up against.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

xlii] Agroecological farming systems have been demonstrated to increase biodiversity on farmed land: plant species increase by 20-95%, insect species by 23%, and pollinator numbers by 30% in organic compared with conventional farming systems. million tonnes of CO 2 per year over 30 years (equivalent to between c.10

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 14, 2025

As always, there was much to explore at the Conference with an array of workshops and deep dive sessions arguably dominating the more academic talks on topics like Trauma and the Land and The Interbeing of Agroecology not to dismiss those deeper discussions which are important to have, but perhaps practice is having a moment?

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Food Tank

JANUARY 3, 2025

Gen Z-ers will buy pasture-raised eggsthat matters to them, if they can afford itand at the same time, theyll want freeze-dried Skittles just to check it out, because its fun. And agriculture is changing, too. Fight for worker justice, argues Saru Jayaraman, Co-Founder and President of One Fair Wage.

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