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20 Sustainable Sips to Cheer For

Food Tank

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. Boochcraft partners with The Ecology Center for the advancement of regenerative agriculture. Martinique Rhum J.M In 2016, Rhum J.M Rise & Win Brewing Co.,

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Foodshed Cooperative Is Growing San Diego’s Small-Farm Economy

Civil Eats

Here, they educated other local farmers on how to farm with more regenerative practices such as cutting down on tillage, growing cover crops, and integrating compost. We recognized that we needed to scale our distribution capacities, and. Ellee Igoe and Hernan Cavazos. They were successful, launching their pilot on March 1st, 2020.

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20 Organizations Cultivating the Food Movement in Atlanta

Food Tank

Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund The Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund is a multidisciplinary, cooperative nonprofit ecosystem that aims to regenerate custodial land ownership, ecological stewardship, and food and fiber economies in the American South.

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APARTMENT CHICKENS

The Lunatic Farmer

One of the most common questions people ask me is “I live in an apartment; is there anything I can do to change the food system, to change the ecology, practically, to change nutrition and livestock abuse?” If the bedding is kept moist—and it should be so it’ll compost—it won’t have much dust. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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SEEN IN SOUTH AFRICA

The Lunatic Farmer

What I do is visit farms and look for cutting edge practical ecological solutions. 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. Couple that with anti-ecology and you have a recipe for dysfunction.

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Opinion: To Make a Real Impact on Climate Change, We Must Move Beyond the Carbon Footprint

Modern Farmer

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. from U.C.

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2022 Farm Champions

Caff

Together, they’re safeguarding affordable access to the farmland by providing a long-term lease to Mountain Bounty so that it continues to produce local, organic food in an ecologically responsible way for generations to come. But with heart a’plenty, that’s exactly what the the Mendo-Lake Food Hub is doing.

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