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This Immersive Farm Apprenticeship is Training the Next Generation of Farmers

Modern Farmer

In the 90-minute ritual, she distributes buckets of grain and hay for the cows’ breakfast, scrapes away animal feces, fills the water trough bucket by bucket, milks the dairy cows, feeds the barnyard cats and new kittens, and shepherds sometimes recalcitrant cows out to pasture. It’s a lot of work. “To

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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

It started sourcing scraps from places such as White Oak Pastures , a farm in Bluffton, Georgia committed to regenerative and humane farming techniques. full_link LEARN MORE White Oak Pastures uses “radically traditional” farming methods. Customers couldn’t get enough of the local grass-farmed treats.

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Food Systems 101: How Community Colleges Are Helping Students Connect Farm to Fork

Modern Farmer

Over time, the administrators hope to expand with aquaculture, waste management, raised-bed gardening and more. The school ran an outdoor hydroponics farm this summer to help work out logistics on the soon-to-be-built indoor vertical farm.

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5 Critical Agriculture Topics to Incorporate Into Any Climate-Related Event

Agritecture Blog

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. Some of these solutions include aquaculture to help reduce the amount of wild-captured fish, as well as mushrooms , insects , and algae grown in controlled environments.

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Walmart’s ‘Regenerative Foodscape’

Civil Eats

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management.

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Our 2023 Food and Farming Holiday Book Gift Guide

Civil Eats

Now, White Oak Pastures—a significant player in the regenerative agriculture movement—raises cows on organic pasture, allowing them to carry out their instinctual behaviors in a rotational system.

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