Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 5, 2024

Emmert, a horticulturist at the University of Kentucky, was tinkering around with how to build a cheap greenhouse. It lines the sides of greenhouses, blankets fields as “plastic mulch,” covers hoop houses, and winds through farms as irrigation tubes, among other forms. In 1948, E.M. That’s the reason we’re facing such a massive issue.”

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Food Tank

JUNE 5, 2024

He explains that they reduce the time it takes to compost, lowering greenhouse gas emissions, and they require very little water for breeding. Insects can help decrease the number of inputs typically expected in food production, Tonga says. icipe’s work also touches on sustainable pest control practices.

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Technology Food Production Compost 111

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Black polyethylene “mulch film” gets tucked snugly around crop rows, clear plastic sheeting covers hoop houses, and most farmers use plastic seed trays, irrigation tubes, and fertilizer bags. All told, annual greenhouse gases released from plastic production, landfilling, and incineration total 850 million tons , or 4.5

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Food Tank

APRIL 4, 2024

The Institute has three seed banks, a greenhouse, ceremonial women’s house, restored adobe, and more. These include farming and gardening, composting, animal husbandry and processing, adobe construction, mud plastering, pottery, and weaving. According to the U.S.

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Seeding Food Construction Compost 111

Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

According to a study published in the Journal of Cleaner Production and Beverages , the production of alcoholic beverages can contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, land degradation, and water depletion. This threatens native crops and wild species. These consumption trends matter to the environment. In 2016, Rhum J.M

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Beverage Ecology Compost Cultivation 124

Cropaia

MAY 25, 2024

It is a stable form of charcoal created by heating organic materials, such as crop residues, wood chips, and manure, in the absence of oxygen. This improvement in nutrient retention enhances crop growth and protects surrounding water bodies from nutrient pollution. This pH adjustment can lead to improved crop yields and soil health.

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Compost Fertilizer Crop Yield Nutrient Pollution 67

Food Tank

MARCH 2, 2024

Growers are planting more heat and drought-resistant grape varieties and implementing cover crops in vine rows to decrease soil water loss. The International Wineries for Climate Action (IWCA) helps producers with the implement practices to measure and decrease greenhouse gas emissions.

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Food Greenhouse Fertilizer Production 105

Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 30, 2024

If you have loads of old plastic pots or seed starter trays you’re not using, you may also be able to return some to your local greenhouse. Straw bales get bonus points because they can be composted after the growing season for future use as a natural fertilizer.” They act as both the container and as a growing medium.

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Straw Compost Seeding Farming 85

Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2024

Researchers have increasingly recognized how essential fungi are to sequestering carbon in the soil and some have come to appreciate the outsized role they play in supporting crop health, mitigating climate change, and even sheltering crops from disease. He mostly grows salad greens across 3 acres of farmland. His lettuce was drooping.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 2, 2024

Higher temperatures can speed crop growth and increase demands on the soil. Close plant spacings, quick crop successions, and extended seasons, typical in tunnel production, add to those demands. With increased crop successions comes increased soil preparation and tillage that can impact soil structure.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 6, 2023

That’s when I started actually using biochar on my crops, doing workshops, and teaching farmers how to make it.” The second is an abundance of forest and sawmill waste, which releases greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere if left to decompose. I had this huge, eye-opening experience,” Hardin said.

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Poultry Greenhouse Yield Manure 93

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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Pasture Crop Orchard Farming 111

Civil Eats

AUGUST 28, 2023

Methane gas digesters are used by dairy farms to convert manure into energy and reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Co-digester Benefits The co-digester produces enough liquid, organic fertilizer to meet 90 percent of the farm’s annual fertilizer needs for its hay, alfalfa, and corn crops. and we see increased crop yields.

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Manure Food Compost Fertilizer 83

CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

From losing seed crops as wildfires rage for weeks, to losing entire crops as a result of erratic freezes, to losing farms as drought dries up available water, farmers’ risks are rising. Farming is also an important contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Farmers across the country are experiencing climate impacts as a crisis.

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Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Food 52

Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

As California has lost much of its grain to higher value crops, small flour mills and grain cleaning businesses have disappeared, too. This helped them buy their first cache of shared equipment: a tiller, a harrow, a manure spreader, a trailer to move equipment between farms, and a log splitter for heating greenhouses with wood.

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Grain Orchard Farming Farming 143

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Invisible’ Waste: For Restaurants, Composting Food Scraps Is Just the Beginning Cooking, refrigeration, air conditioning, water use, and packaging contribute to greenhouse gas emissions too. This is a 1:1 link to crops not coming out good. Some workers are taking matters into their own hands.

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Farming Farming Food Compost 138

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

Backyard farms may need infrastructure for things ranging from drip lines and irrigation systems to hoop houses or greenhouses. Plus, having multiple plots is great for their farm management strategy as they rotate crops seasonally to reduce pest pressure and replenish soil nutrients. Together, they were approved for the lease.

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Real Estate Farming Farming Acre 117

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

This decline impacts entire ecosystems as well as producers who depend on crop pollination. Current agricultural nutrient management decisions are often based on field production goals and recommendations from universities, crop consultants, and agrichemical dealers. potatoes, onions, sugar beets, and other root crops).

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Farming Farming Forestry Technology 96

Farmbrite

AUGUST 23, 2023

Rotate your crops. Rotating crops is one of the best ways to improve long-term soil health on your farm. There are several types of crop rotation that farmers can implement to maximize the benefits of this practice. Use cover crops. The importance of cover crops lies in their ability to protect and improve soil health.

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The Gleaning Project of South Central PA

MAY 16, 2022

33% of all produced food globally is lost or wasted every year 45% of all root crops, fruit and veggies produced globally is lost or wasted per year 1866$- the annual cost of food wasted by the average American family 25% of the food wasted globally could feed all 795 million undernourished people in the world!

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Food Greenhouse Compost Ecology 52

Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

The choice to compare greenhouse gas intensity of soil-based urban agriculture systems with conventional farming systems brings up an inherently unfair comparison.

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Agroecology Yield Food Acre 97

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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Farming Farming Manure Agriculture 97

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. agriculture by the year 2040.

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Farming Farming Manure Pasture 52

Caff

MAY 19, 2022

Key Details: Location: California Central Coast Main Crop(s): Microgreens FSMA PSR Inspection: 1/7/2020 3rd Party Audit(s): USDA Harmonized GAP/GMP Certified Organic by National Organic Program: Yes Owners: Ken and Sandra Kimes New Natives Farm was started in 1980. What crops are being grown? What inputs are in your compost (e.g.

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Farming Farming Food Crop 52

ATTRA

APRIL 30, 2024

The liquid portion of the digestate is staged to be used as a nutrient source for the farm’s crop fields and compost piles. With this new biodigester, Steiman and Dickenson College are using farm and food-waste streams to generate renewable energy right on the farm and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Farming Farming Manure Ruralism 52

The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

They’d take a few hundred acres of both leased and family-owned central-Texas farmland—land that for decades had grown row crops of corn and cotton—and give it “what it wants back,” he said. By one estimate, storing an extra 2 percent of carbon in soil would return atmospheric greenhouse gases to “safe” levels. Here in the U.S.,

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Farming Farming Farmland Acre 52

Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

In Dimbleby’s vision for a sustainable and resilient food future, a diversity of approaches will be needed: “Organic farms will live alongside solar-powered, high-rise greenhouses growing fruit and veg in cities. Montgomery and biologist Anne Biklé, unravels the threads that connect soil, crops, animals and people.

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RR2CS

JANUARY 13, 2022

They grow a wide range of field and greenhouse vegetables and herbs, and sell their organic produce to customers through a summer and fall Farm Share program , and as well, at Edmonton’s Strathcona Farmer’s Market. At Sundog, the extreme rainfall resulted in standing water in the fields, which crippled many crops.

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Farming Farming Agriculture Agriculture 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 7, 2024

A combination of economics — bumper crops, declining exports, retaliatory tariffs — and ugly fruit (made so by hail) hit farmers hard. This is a story that’s familiar across the world with various farmers having nowhere to turn when the weather and market forces align against a crop. Why don’t we compost more?

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Food Compost Distribution Greenhouse 95

Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

Fashion contributes around 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, second only to big oil. The claim is controversial, however, in terms of biodegradability and because plant-based plastics require crops such as corn and farmland that could have been used to grow food. Another big factor is end of life.

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Textiles Manufacturing Production Processing 115

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 7, 2024

They are using composting systems and anaerobic digesters to turn waste into fertilizer for the next planting. More than half of domestically raised fresh market tomatoes are grown in Florida, and roughly 90 percent of the domestic winter crop is grown there. But concentrating production makes the crop vulnerable.

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Technology Food Farming Farming 83

Cropaia

APRIL 7, 2023

Carbon farming involves techniques such as cover cropping, reduced tillage, and the use of organic matter like compost. This can help to lower the overall concentration of greenhouse gases, which are a significant contributor to global warming. Such techniques aim to increase the amount of carbon stored in the soil.

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Mechanics Greenhouse Farming Farming 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

They help farmers and ranchers keep drinking water clean for our urban and rural communities, build soil resilience and limit the impacts of severe drought and flooding, provide healthy habitats for wildlife, mitigate agriculture’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and support farm operations that are productive and sustainable long-term.

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Ruralism Food Farming Farming 111

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

With instructions on how to choose the heartiest cultivars, “harden” them for winter, and outfit a greenhouse to keep vegetables just warm enough without using massive amounts of energy, The Winter Market Gardener makes a strong case for winter growing.

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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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Food Agriculture Agriculture Ruralism 139

Modern Farmer

APRIL 3, 2024

Fighting climate change Greenhouse gas emissions, which result from high levels of atmospheric carbon, are a critical cause of climate change. So, the experiment combined “technosol,” also known as human-engineered soil, a mix of sediment and compost, in different ratios.

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Science Ruralism Ecology Farming 119