Agric4profits

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Organic oil palm farming is a sustainable approach to cultivating oil palms without synthetic inputs. Organic oil palm farming focuses on enhancing soil health through compost, organic fertilizers, and crop rotation. It emphasizes natural methods for soil fertility, pest control, and plant health.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This analysis found that AFRI has historically funded low levels of organic research, while the Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) has been erratic in supporting organic research projects. This initiative trains future plant breeders and develops new crop varieties specifically suited for organic systems.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 3, 2025

Organic curry farming involves cultivating curry plants without the use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, or genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Farmers use natural methods such as crop rotation, composting,… Read More » Complete Practical Guide on Organic Curry Farming

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Through their Resource Center programming, the Alliance offers trainings and workshops; volunteer and labor support; compost, tools, and equipment; and capacity building grants. They support 10 farm, community garden and orchard sites in DeKalb and Rockdale Counties, helping communities grow fresh, culturally familiar crops.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Planning Winter Cover Crop Rotations Maximizing cover crop benefits in the garden requires strong crop planning with strategic rotations coupled with creative improvision so it’s important to examine strategies and considerations for incorporating cover crops with no-till methods and inter-seeding.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

We wanted to stop the fires and decided to introduce crops that would help us do so,” Garcia Martinez remembers. “We Just like Indigenous people in Oaxaca, and beyond, grow their main crops—corn, beans, and zucchini together on one plot called milpa —they often do the same with other plants, including vanilla. Photography by Noel Rojo.

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Food Tank

JUNE 14, 2024

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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Food Tank

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Recently, they worked with a Navajo farmer to build a bioreactor to generate biologically complete compost that will help heal the soil and improve yields. “We Today, IndigeHub tries to focus on farmers and producers. Articles like the one you just read are made possible through the generosity of Food Tank members.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It also reveals that the production cultivation of barley and hops is responsible for most of the environmental impact of beer. This threatens native crops and wild species. The company composts all fruit scraps, tea, herbs, cultures, and paper towels while also saving over 1,100 gallons of water per day through their recapture system.

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Fork Farms

JULY 17, 2023

It offers an innovative and practical approach to teaching various scientific concepts while cultivating an understanding of sustainable agriculture. Students can investigate other integrated solutions such as: composting, crop rotation, and farm co-ops.

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ATTRA

MARCH 12, 2024

Yet, we tend to restrict ourselves to greens cultivated primarily for their leaves, leaving them susceptible to bolting in high temperatures or losing leaves to disease. Carrot Tops Carrots originated in Persia and were cultivated for their aromatic leaves and seeds. They are boiled and cooked and used in various recipes.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 15, 2025

In some areas, fields were buried under as much as three feet of sediment, debris, and gravel, rendering them unfit for immediate cultivation. This loss of fertile topsoil will pose long-term challenges for crop production and soil health. Farmers faced dire situations. The fee waiver will remain in effect until June 30, 2025.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Importantly, compost cannot be used as a growing medium for microgreens due to the high risk of foodborne illness and contamination. This high margin makes microgreens a lucrative crop, especially when grown efficiently. Additional Resources • Microgreens: How to Grow and Use • What is Farm to School?

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ATTRA

AUGUST 20, 2024

They avoid using excessive chemicals, rotate crops, and plant cover crops to keep the soil healthy. Clothes made from this cotton are compostable and don’t contain harmful microplastics, unlike synthetic fabrics. Together, we can cultivate a fashion industry that honors the health of our planet and the well-being of its people.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 30, 2024

Photo by Cultivate KC Editor’s Note: This post is part of a multi-part series exploring some of the key sustainable agriculture and food systems challenges that the farm bill can address. Urban farmers and community garden networks cultivate, process, and distribute food utilizing micro-scale and innovative production techniques.

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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. For me, it’s all about getting to know the plant’s needs.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Waving fields of wheat once stippled the sunny lands of San Diego County, but higher-value crops supplanted it more than a century ago. On a sparkling spring day in March, Ellis and a crew of volunteers gathered at Rio Del Rey Farm to pull weeds from rows of experimental dry-farmed wheat crops.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 4, 2024

Her Belgian start-up cultivates mycelium—the thread-like root structure of fungus—using the plastic- and toxin-laden stubs as fodder. And mushrooms of all kinds sprout as they feast on crop waste, coffee grounds and horse manure. More recently, mycologists have been unleashing fungi on common industrial and consumer waste.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

They were lucky enough to have crop insurance to cover their losses, but many farmers are not so lucky. Other means of managing weather risk are, like crop insurance premiums, funded by the federal government. He does not till his farm, and he plants extensive cover crops. Rotationally grazed cattle behind an electric fence.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 3, 2024

Singer’s respect for soil inspired her to found Carbon Sponge , an interdisciplinary platform that honors this threatened resource by cultivating healthy soil to foster carbon sequestration. So, the experiment combined “technosol,” also known as human-engineered soil, a mix of sediment and compost, in different ratios.

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Food Tank

JULY 2, 2024

Barefoot Biodynamics: How Cows, Compost, and Community Help Us Understand Rudolf Steiner’s Agriculture Course by Jeff Poppen In Barefoot Biodynamics , Jeff Poppen integrates stories from his time in rural Tennessee in his guide to biodynamic principles and practices.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 11, 2024

And so, even though they grew abundantly without being planted, most of them just went to the compost pile. She sources many of these plants from her own land—letting plants grow where they prefer instead of in orderly crop rows—and sells them to top restaurants in New York City, pulling them out of the “weed” category and onto dinner plates.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

For a long time – until production controls were lifted in the mid-2000s – tobacco was a critical crop for smaller-scale farmers. A crop that was pivotal to many small-scale farming communities across the South and elsewhere went away. We tended the land, crops, and animals together. We will have to sacrifice.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

As the companies see it, the process is more efficient than growing fibers naturally; traditional silk, for example, is biodegradable and long-lasting, but cultivation can use large amounts of water and pesticides. Those fibers can be plant-derived, mycelium, cultivated animal cells, microbe-derived, recycled materials and blends.

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ATTRA

APRIL 8, 2024

In this video, Russell Hollander of Care2Grow Farm in Naples, Florida, guides us through the captivating journey of medicinal and gourmet mushroom cultivation, unveiling the intricate process from substrate to harvest. Explore the incredible potential of mushrooms and discover additional streams of income that mushroom production can offer!

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Civil Eats

MARCH 5, 2024

The San Joaquin Valley is the largest agricultural producing area in the nation; it produced crops, livestock, and agricultural commodities worth $36.5 Mountain ranges trap emissions from highway traffic, locomotives, municipal composting facilities, tractors, and burning. billion in 2022. tons of PM2.5 have been reduced per day.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

Today, the four counties sitting in the lake bed account for more than $25 billion in food and crop production, with Tulare County ranking number one in the nation for milk and oranges. Neighboring Fresno and Kern Counties top the list for almonds , while Kings County rules the state in cotton production.

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Caff

JUNE 13, 2023

Of the many rules in this law, the Produce Safety Rule (PSR) was created to address federal food safety requirements at the farm level, specifically for produce crops. This is of special concern because many crops are eaten raw and if contaminated, they can cause illness when consumed. Crops may exhibit wilting, spotting, scaring, etc.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Nutrients and irrigation speed up crop development, increase crop yield and prevent contamination. The best amount of nutrients will vary between crop species, soil, precipitation, and more. Healthy Crops Start with Your Soil The foundation of healthy crops begins with healthy soil.

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RR2CS

MARCH 19, 2024

Dedicated to cultivating a thriving local food economy and sustainable farming sector, Just Food integrates agroecology-based conservation with land stewardship. The farm is a testament to how community-led initiatives can redefine our food systems, offering food sovereignty for all, including newcomers to Canada.

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CalCAN

AUGUST 15, 2023

The Crucial Role of Farm Bill Advocacy The farm bill covers a wide range of agriculture and nutrition policy that has a huge impact on how our food is grown and who has access to it, and what resources farmers and ranchers will have for conservation practices, crop insurance, research, and much more.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

He also cultivates 75 acres of wheat, 83 acres of soybeans, 65 acres of corn, and 45 acres of hardwoods and pine trees. Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s. On the farm, Arthur raised some livestock and vegetables but mostly grew row crops like tobacco.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

The initiative aims to triple the productivity of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa in 20 years by promoting green manure and cover crops that restore soil health, combat drought, and enhance farm resilience. Abdou Tenkouano, former Executive Director of CORAF, tells Food Tank. Every seed is important. Every seed is important.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

I am only considering them in relation to agricultural crops. By ‘lack of humus’ he is referring to the increasing trend, even then, to dispense with returning organic matter to the soil, for example, in the form of composted farmyard manure, that was made possible by the development of synthetic fertilisers.

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Sustainable Harvest International

MAY 4, 2022

Original story written in Spanish by Dayra Julio , SHI-Panama’s Logistics + Partnerships Coordinator María Balbina Rodríguez standing within her multi-story agroforestry parcel which includes crops like plantains, yuca, and pigeon peas. As Vicente notes, “The land was a bit tired and needed help, good for certain crops but not for everything.”

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Sprinkled throughout the recipes are fascinating historical tidbits about the Quaker who first cultivated rhubarb in the 1730s, for example, and the Indigenous tribes that used spruce tip tea to ward off scurvy. To make an amaro (relatively easy!) you need to first learn to make a tincture.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We’ve spent a couple of generations exiting historically normal tasks and behavior, from integrating livestock and crops, growing gardens, buying locally and cultivating domestic culinary arts. Crops required proximate animals in order to receive the blessing of their manure. It was on your shoes when you went into the bakery.

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