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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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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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.

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 22, 2023

Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or a novice, this article will guide you through all aspects of cultivating and caring for the Desert Rose. Attractive Bonsai Specimens: Adenium obesum is highly sought-after for bonsai cultivation due to its distinctive caudex and intricate branching patterns.

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Kavya Organic Farm

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or a novice, this article will guide you through all aspects of cultivating and caring for the Desert Rose. Attractive Bonsai Specimens: Adenium obesum is highly sought-after for bonsai cultivation due to its distinctive caudex and intricate branching patterns.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 5, 2024

Mountain ranges trap emissions from highway traffic, locomotives, municipal composting facilities, tractors, and burning. The San Joaquin Valley Air District is in the midst of a process to evaluate potential additions to the region’s Conservation Management Practices rule. tons of PM2.5 have been reduced per day. For example, PM2.5

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 29, 2023

Soil pH: In some cases, nightcrawler activity can lead to localized pH changes, making the soil more alkaline due to their digestive processes. Instead, consider natural alternatives, such as compost tea or organic fertilizers, which nourish the soil and encourage earthworm activity without harming them or other wildlife.

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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. After reading her book, which includes experiential knowledge, reflections, how-tos and a handful of recipes, I couldn’t wait to ask her more about her process. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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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. However, it’s crucial to ensure proper processing to remove cyanide. Cassava Leaves Cassava leaves can be eaten if they are ground and cooked thoroughly.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

But most wheat is processed on roller mills that remove the bran and germ to produce a fine white flour, while much of the product marketed as “whole wheat” is actually refined white flour with larger particles mixed back in. But intensive cultivation and lack of variety led to challenges in productivity. Craig “Dr.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

She also employs cover crops, composting, and reduced tillage. Although they have experienced challenges in finding ways to process all their products, EQIP has supported them well in their conservation practices, including cost share for hedgerows, efficient irrigation, water pipelines, and troughs. We appreciate your work!

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 29, 2023

Soil pH: In some cases, nightcrawler activity can lead to localized pH changes, making the soil more alkaline due to their digestive processes. Instead, consider natural alternatives, such as compost tea or organic fertilizers, which nourish the soil and encourage earthworm activity without harming them or other wildlife.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Ecological succession is the process by which plant communities change over time, eventually yielding a climax community. It should matter to producers because how a crop ecologically arose, and the community of soil microbes present with its roots during that process impacts the health of that crop.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

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. And because the fresh fluid is costly to transport, dairy processing is highly regional, says Sumner.

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 18, 2023

Mix compost, peat moss, and perlite to create a balanced and aerated growing medium that promotes root development and prevents waterlogged soil. Planting Your Tomato Seeds Planting tomato seeds is an exciting step in the growing beefsteak tomatoes in pots process. To provide support, stake your plants early in the growing process.

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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 temperature range slows down the degradation process and helps the greens retain their crispness and color. Additional Resources • Microgreens: How to Grow and Use • What is Farm to School?

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 29, 2023

Soil pH: In some cases, nightcrawler activity can lead to localized pH changes, making the soil more alkaline due to their digestive processes. Instead, consider natural alternatives, such as compost tea or organic fertilizers, which nourish the soil and encourage earthworm activity without harming them or other wildlife.

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Sustainable Harvest International

MAY 4, 2022

During this period of time, the family also participated in diverse theoretical and practical training on the elaboration of organic fertilizers, making use of local resources, and composting. Her daughter sells baked and processed goods such as cakes, empanadas, jellies, and popsicles.

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Caff

JUNE 13, 2023

Toxins can inhibit plant growth, cause negative impacts to human and livestock health, interfere with soil processes, and impair water quality. Keep flammables away from cultivation and livestock holding areas as well as from freshwater and/or irrigation sources to minimize the potential for drift. Why is this important?

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

Companies often blend natural with plastic fibers, adding dyes and finishes, and blends are particularly hard to recycle because the components require different processes. Those fibers can be plant-derived, mycelium, cultivated animal cells, microbe-derived, recycled materials and blends. Photo courtesy of Spiber Inc.)

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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. A designer by training, Speyer stumbled on fungi while searching for a sustainable and easy-to-cultivate material. Fungi are nature’s recyclers,” says PuriFungi’s Audrey Speyer.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

This refers to the natural processes by which all living things eventually die, decay and under normal circumstances return to the earth to be recycled. What he could not have known is that the processes he describes, depend, amongst other things, on the action of mycorrhizal fungi.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Farmers euthanized (that means killed and threw away) millions of chickens, turkeys, and hogs because mega-processing plants couldn’t maintain operations. In the spring of 2020, as covid’s black swan permeated the world, store shelves went bare. We even abandoned breast feeding our babies for a couple of decades. Isn’t that beautiful?

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