Caff

JANUARY 6, 2025

Rising to the occasion, CAFF raised and distributed $283,750 to small family farmers impacted by this crisis, thanks to community partners like the San Benito Community Foundation, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, and the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 29, 2024

Combined with copious sunlight and compostable waste, this system creates a “goldmine of opportunity” that Chevallier believes Homegrown can leverage to transform the area into a hub of local food production. His efforts are already paying off.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The label will include information on the greenhouse gas emissions released during the production, manufacturing, distribution, consumer use, end-of-life reuse, and recycling of the product.

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Food Tank

MAY 7, 2024

Liv Woods, the MA Oyster Project’s Executive Director, explains that after shucking, serving, and bussing oysters, restaurant workers toss the shells into a five-pound bucket distributed by the organization. Customers can also get involved, by bringing their own oyster shells to participating restaurants.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 5, 2024

These gardens teach students about food systems, organic farming practices, botany, and composting. CUFI also distributes Mobile Vegetable Garden Kits to families across Chennai, ensuring that women-led and other vulnerable households receive priority. Children as young as two learn about colors, shapes, and identifying vegetables.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 6, 2024

It found that one of the items being thrown away the most was rotisserie chickens, so the store started repurposing unsold ones into hot bars before composting the rest. In the Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment, signatories increased the percentage of unsold food that was composted by 28 percent and donated by 20 percent. “You

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 22, 2024

On average, our sites used compost to replace 95% of synthetic nutrients. Using food waste as compost can avoid both the methane emissions from food scraps buried in landfills and the need for synthetic fertilizers made from fossil fuels. We found that careful compost management could cut greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 40%.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 5, 2024

Rating: / 5 Lomi Bloom composter Pela, a British Columbian company, claims its popular Lomi home composters can reduce a household’s food waste by 80 percent. The Lomi Bloom’s a countertop composter that uses heat and grinders to turn food waste into compost quickly and, supposedly, without too much stink.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 5, 2024

The third measure — and this is easiest — is to compost. is composted. Composting Council has shown. cities now have composting programs. Our household is in rural New York state, and we are lucky to have land with good soil where we can dump our compost. Today only 5 percent of food in the U.S. Hundreds of U.S.

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Philabundance

MARCH 27, 2025

million pounds of food from our food industry partners alone, and in 2022, we distributed upwards of 16 million pounds through our Retail Rescue Program. Recycle scraps by making broth or soup; you can also compost food if it has truly gone bad, rather than throwing it out. In 2021, we rescued more than 6.6

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Cropaia

MAY 25, 2024

This method ensures uniform distribution and integration into the soil profile. Composting with biochar: Mixing biochar with compost before application can enhance the composting process, resulting in a nutrient-rich amendment. Biochar helps retain nutrients during composting, improving the quality of the final product.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

John accepted a development role at the farm four years ago, her insight, combined with the need to respond to food insecurity during the pandemic, led to a dramatic shift in the distribution of the farm’s harvest. Despite the new distribution strategy, St.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 4, 2024

We have been helping Sprouts Farmers Market to make sure that they have the right partners in each area so that food is distributed equitably,” she says. Careit has been able to fill in some of these gaps of missed pickups by building food donation relationships between larger grocery stores and smaller organizations. “We

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Food Tank

AUGUST 15, 2024

They shared that they “waste less,” making sure to use what they can and “compost the rest.” “If She sees her active engagement as a way of aiding in the distribution of resources and helping others achieve their food system goals. After completing their farm training, many participants reported a change in mindset about food.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

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. The certified B-Corp brewery composts all organic waste and is working to reclaim runoff for crop irrigation. In 2016, Rhum J.M Rise & Win Brewing Co.,

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

The Food Bank works with almost 700 community-based nonprofit partners to distribute more than 9 million meals across metro Atlanta and north Georgia every month. Through their Resource Center programming, the Alliance offers trainings and workshops; volunteer and labor support; compost, tools, and equipment; and capacity building grants.

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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. ZFP then distributes those funds, via grants, to farmers for regenerative farming projects. “As These restaurants try to tackle them all.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 18, 2024

percent of waste is recycled or composted. Now I put it out happily, gratefully, confident that people will be taking time with it and trying to distribute it nicely.” which lacks a modern national standard. In a nation where recycling rules may vary county by county, not to mention state by state, just 32.1

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7 to resolve lawsuits associated with the cost of treating smoking-related illnesses, Arthur accepted a buyout, distributed by the Golden LEAF Foundation, to help him transition away from the crop. He fertilizes with compost tea, a mixture he creates of compost and water.

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The Lunatic Farmer

MARCH 19, 2021

The microbes got distributed through the air in the home over the course of several weeks," modifying the micro-biota in the home and instilling measurable microbiome enhancement in the people. Certainly soil enriched with compost would be the ultimate source.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 18, 2024

A volunteer helps distribute food. If the answer is no, it’s better saved for the compost bin. So, you want to get involved in a community fridge, but you’re not sure where to start. You’ve come to the right place. Photography by Emma Kazaryan. You might have luck finding one near you or a fridge to visit on your next vacation.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 30, 2024

Urban farmers and community garden networks cultivate, process, and distribute food utilizing micro-scale and innovative production techniques. Urban agriculture is a longstanding practice in communities to serve as a form of food sovereignty, resistance, mutual aid, and entrepreneurship.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 9, 2024

Since March 2023, the campaign has distributed more than 2,000 bills around the U.S. Photo credit: Hailey Wolfe) “What if we train kids in elementary school to have worm farms, rake Mrs. Johnson’s leaves, and then turn them into compost to sell back to her?” and beyond. he proposed. And they’d be getting paid—that’s the sexy part.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 16, 2024

The high cost of a permit (up to $5,000 annually) forced her to end her composting program this spring. His organization sources inventory from more than 30 growers across the state before the team distributes the boxes to schools, food pantries, hospitals, and senior centers with limited access to fresh foods. in June 2024.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 28, 2023

That figure includes food losses during farming, processing, distribution, retail operations, and consumption (e.g., The limited data suggest that food packaging and compostable serviceware may be the largest contributors of PFAS in food waste, though fish and meat are also significant contributors, according to the EPA.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2024

This relationship becomes especially interesting when business is booming—when the plants are delivering a lot of carbon into the soil that is used to build larger and larger fungal networks while distributing carbon across the soil profile. He mostly grows salad greens across 3 acres of farmland.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 12, 2023

And their Food Hubs—intended to serve as a central location for food production, storage, and distribution—aim to increase access to local and Indigenous foods while supporting local economies and improving environmental sustainability. If we could provide the opportunity, the access, what talent can we uncover?”

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

If the bedding is kept moist—and it should be so it’ll compost—it won’t have much dust. Two thousand families raised their hand so the town bought 6,000 hens and distributed them to the families. If you can’t have a whole loaf of bread, be thankful if you can have a slice. As to dust, filters can be installed like go on HVAC units.

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Caff

MARCH 23, 2021

Agricultural Solutions to the Climate Crisis ($1.135 billion) — Sustainable agricultural solutions to slow the impacts of climate change and reduce pollution; strategies that reduce wildfire risk and invest in farmland conservation to keep our farms viable and resilient; compost infrastructure to build healthy soils; groundwater sustainability.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

In general, we need multifunctional perspectives for a more holistic systems comparison.” To be sure, we need conventional farming systems right now that create efficiency and economies of scale to grow and distribute large volumes of food to feed a growing population.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This satisfied all my criteria for acceptable water-based sewage systems: leveraging the fertility, keeping it out of the ground water, and a portable distribution system. Like chemical fertilizer instead of compost. The number of simple, practical solutions to global problems is astounding.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

This circular approach annually takes 60,000 kilograms of food waste that would have either rotted in a landfill or have been composted, and instead diverts it to protein production. Distributing food scraps in each of the pens. The waste is usually cut into small pieces to be distributed amongst more of the beds.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

I remove debris with a rake, use a wheel hoe or a push tiller set at a shallow depth, or add an inch of compost. EarthWay Seeder : Easy to use and low cost but may result in inconsistent seed distribution due to its reliance on how fast you walk. How do I make that happen? Ready to start planting?

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Caff

JANUARY 26, 2022

Launched in 2015, the hub has provided small farmers access to a shared sales and distribution network serving wholesale buyers like grocery stores, schools, and restaurants, all with a mission of increasing the economic viability of local agriculture and increasing local food access in their community.

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Caff

JANUARY 25, 2023

By partnering with local and state organizations, he’s made his operation a key part of emergency food distribution programs reaching schools, families, and organizations in Tulare County with culturally appropriate food especially for rural regions comprised of farmworkers and other immigrant and under-served communities.

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OECD: Environment

MAY 30, 2023

Optimising water distribution from various sources has been a success. Breakdown data for recycling and composting are available from 2013. However, Israel’s population exposure to fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ), a danger to human health, was the fourth highest among OECD countries in 2019.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

He’s tinkered with different irrigation systems, moving from a sub-surface drip setup to his current above-ground micro-sprayer, which he says has the best distribution of water with the least waste. There are sheep grazing between the trees, cover crops of grasses and legumes, spot irrigation and increased composting.

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