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Stopping Ocean Plastics, One Mushroom Buoy at a Time

Modern Farmer

Gear is lost overboard, lines snap and drop waste into the sea, pots and buoys are abandoned, and bits and pieces of fishing and aquaculture float away. Photo by Andriy Nekrasov via Shutterstock Buoys are a key component of aquaculture and fisheries—there are hundreds of thousands used in the United States alone.

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What’s Left Out of the Conversation When it Comes to Urban Agriculture

Food Tank

Urban agriculture can take on many different forms including, but not limited to, community gardens, urban farms, greenspaces, bioswales, rain gardens, community composting, beekeeping, and aquaculture. Many utilize regenerative growing and composting to maintain healthy crop life cycles from seed to harvest and foster healthy soils.

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Best Practices for Managing Plant Nutrients

Farmbrite

Compost: Compost improves and adds nourishment to the soil. For composting systems, nutrients (like nitrogen) can be added in the form of green materials (grass clippings, kitchen scraps), and carbon (in the form of dry leaves, and straw) that can balance the nitrogen. We might suggest using both compost and fertilizer.

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On The Ground: Your Dog’s Food Probably Comes From a Factory Farm. Meet Some Folks Who Want to Change That

Modern Farmer

Like the hog tails, hides, organs, and hooves that aren’t always suitable for compost. Initially, they partnered with a composting facility, capturing suitable meat and vegetable scraps, which they now collect directly from a variety of sources. Farm Hounds jerky. The Conscious Pet founders Mason Arnold and Jessica Kezar Arnold.

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20 Children’s Books Celebrating Our Food and Farming Systems

Food Tank

Highlighting urban gardens, aquaculture oyster farms, food forests, and more, this book shows the varied ways that farmers can sustainably feed their communities. Saturdays at Harlem Grown also includes a recipe for vegetable soup and tips to help readers recycle, compost, and tend to gardens of their own.

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Our 2023 Food and Farming Holiday Book Gift Guide

Civil Eats

Hartman’s guide to how to downsize to fit into an urban or suburban neighborhood is like a study in farming history: pare down to seven tools, leave roots in place to nourish the soil, and “trust the compost.” Hartman maximizes many practices from the past while implementing today’s tech “on a human scale” to reap the greatest reward.

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125 Food and Agriculture Organizations to Watch in 2025

Food Tank

By rescuing surplus food from the hospitality sector, such as hotels, restaurants, and bakeries, the organization redistributes edible food to those in need while diverting expired food to farms for animal feed and composting. Since its inception, Garda Pangan has rescued more than 8 tons of food, benefiting tens of thousands of people.

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