Compost Crop Real Estate 
Modern Farmer
JANUARY 15, 2024
It’s a great gateway crop,” says Don DiLillo, owner of Finest Foods in Huntington, New York, for ushering in a new breed of novice farmers. Given the cost of Long Island real estate, the space efficiency is “one of the great benefits of [farming] microgreens,” says DiLillo. Plus, he adds, “I can do farm chores in my pajamas.”
Modern Farmer
AUGUST 1, 2024
Investing in Real Estate as a Means to Farm Jamie and Doug Wickler were engineers, but the 2008 crash made them reconsider career paths. They had bought their home in 2013, and they secured their first rental property in 2017 (when real estate was more affordable) with help from family and friends.
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Civil Eats
AUGUST 7, 2023
Across a grassed waterway filled with clovers and vetches, Isaac Zama, grower of West African crops including bitter leaf and njama njama (a variety of huckleberry), used a broadfork to prepare a bed for planting. That project is being funded by a second award through the OAIUP’s composting grant program.
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.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
MAY 10, 2024
improving irrigation efficiency, restoring pasture, cover cropping, or nutrient and pest management). However, NSAC is disheartened to see no reference to establishing composting as a national practice standard in the RPFSA. Conservation practices eligible for EQIP include structural, vegetative, and management practices (e.g.,
Agritecture Blog
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
But certain crops, like lettuces, tubers, and cucumbers, had yields up to four times higher when grown in cities. On a commercial farm, crops are usually grown one at a time and tended with specialized equipment—you can’t plant wheat and carrots in the same field because they’re harvested in totally different ways.
Agritecture Blog
APRIL 14, 2023
Agrihoods—or neighborhoods centered around agriculture—have continued to pop up around the country, with one of the latest being Indigo by Houston-based real estate development company Meristem Communities. Garrett: Meristem Communities is a Houston-based real estate development company that was established in 2021.
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