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Cultivating Profits in a Compact Crop

Modern Farmer

Recently, these unassuming spaces are cultivating a new trend in home-grown businesses. The 800-square-foot basement and garage provide ample space for germination, cultivation and packaging, he says, with the vertical shelf configuration leaving plenty of room to grow. “I Photography submitted by Don DiLillo, Finest Foods.

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A Blueprint for Cooling our Blue Planet

Farming Secrets

Decreased water and wind erosion as with the current rate of soil loss by 2050 we will have lost 95% of arable lands to degradation and desertification. Increased soil carbon, soil nitrogen, soil moisture, nutrient cycling. to keep temperatures below 1.5

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Southern Black Farmers Sow Rice and Reconciliation

Civil Eats

Created on Madagascar and practiced in about 60 countries today, SRI has been shown to increase grain yields, sometimes twofold. Thats because so much rice is grown around the world: Roughly 11 percent of all arable land is devoted to this crop, a daily staple for half the people on Earth.

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Our Summer 2024 Food and Farming Book Guide

Civil Eats

Could cultivating it offer me an opportunity to make up for all that had not passed down to me?” In On Gold Hill , Moyer weaves together her attempt to grow the grain with the story she unearths of her family through the generations. “Might this obscure wheat contain within it a door to my own heritage?”

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