Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Food Well Alliance Food Well Alliance brings together leaders of the local food movement to support more than 300 community gardens, urban farms, and orchards in metro Atlanta. The Common Market Working in four regional hubs, The Common Market is a nonprofit food distributor connecting urban communities with local food grown on family farms.

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Cultivation Food Marketing Distribution 105

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road near the familys farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community. Patrick currently operates Brown Family Farms on the land that Byron worked as a sharecropper once he was freed.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

I should mention that our farm was, and still is, a family farm in the strongest sense. A childhood photo from the family farm. Whether it’s a farm or an urban park, a community garden, or a tree planted in the sidewalk, we’d do well to cultivate these connections with, and affection for, place.

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Ruralism Farming Farming Agriculture 117

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

At Fifth Crow Farm, she has obtained NRCS funding to plant native hedgerows which she intends, “to provide habitat and travel corridors for beneficial insects and pollinators.” She also employs cover crops, composting, and reduced tillage. The farm is profiled along with other conservation-minded farmers here.

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Pasture Crop Orchard Farming 111

Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

(Photo courtesy of Lerda-Goni Farms) Since the 1983 flood, changes in farming patterns have also raised the basin’s economic risk, he notes. Orchards, vines and other perennials cultivated as long-term investments have steadily replaced ephemeral crops such as tomatoes and cotton, which are far less costly to sacrifice or replace.

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Farming Farming Manure Agriculture 97

CalCAN

AUGUST 15, 2023

CalCAN is one of hundreds of sustainable, organic, and family farming organizations across the country that is engaged in farm bill advocacy this year. Transitioning to or increasing pasture-based production would also be eligible.

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Farming Farming Manure Pasture 52

Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Black Urban Growers (BUGs) , United States BUGs is committed to fostering a strong, supportive community for cultivators in both urban and rural settings, while empowering Black leadership in agriculture. With a commitment to restoring ancestral knowledge, Soul Fire Farm fosters healing, community empowerment, and ecological sustainability.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Ruralism 139