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 vineyards are weeded only using hoes, never herbicides, and fertilized with manure. Boochcraft, United States Boochraft produces kombucha, an alcoholic fermented tea.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 10, 2023

It’s a cheaper and more climate-friendly alternative to trucking in compost from Vermont. Some Front Range farmers pay to truck in compost from Vermont. Instead of adding synthetic fertilizers or importing compost, Breiter is using Hedstrom’s mycelium to turn forest slash into organic soil that he can work into his degraded land.

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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. Those are nitrogen-rich plants, and nobody’s applying fertilizer,” he says.

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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. Like chemical fertilizer instead of compost.

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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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Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

In addition, most natural fibers are grown conventionally, which often means heavy use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers and genetically modified or treated seeds. According to its website, the material decays in controlled composting conditions. Cotton, the most used natural fiber, occupies 2.4

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OECD: Environment

MAY 30, 2023

by Sho Yamasaki, OECD Environment Directorate Israel is one of the world’s most arid countries, but its small open economy is fertile ground for tech-driven innovation. Optimising water distribution from various sources has been a success. Breakdown data for recycling and composting are available from 2013.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

If they opt to sell them under the Tree-Range label, storage, distribution, and marketing are all taken care of, as the birds make their way to consumers in the Minneapolis-St. They’re also working on adding a composting processing site, neighbor approval pending. “We Paul region.

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Agritecture Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

That crop diversity also means you can harvest different plants at different times—tomatoes in August, pumpkins in October—so the supply of food is more broadly distributed. That’s part of the reason why Bousselot’s tiny rooftop garden in Denver is so productive. That requires human labor instead of a machine.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Even before that food gets to the dump, its production—involving fossil fuel–based fertilizers and pesticides, nitrous oxide released in fields, and energy use— results in annual greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to that of 42 coal-fired power plants. Food waste, after all, is a mountain-of-trash-sized problem. In the U.S.,

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 7, 2024

They are using composting systems and anaerobic digesters to turn waste into fertilizer for the next planting. First, there needs to be a cultural shift on the farm — away from treating food distribution as a commodities market that often leads to trimming input costs through much cheaper means than new technologies.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Hartman’s guide to how to downsize to fit into an urban or suburban neighborhood is like a study in farming history: pare down to seven tools, leave roots in place to nourish the soil, and “trust the compost.” Hartman maximizes many practices from the past while implementing today’s tech “on a human scale” to reap the greatest reward.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

However, NSAC is disheartened to see no reference to establishing composting as a national practice standard in the RPFSA. On-farm composting is foundational to many operations’ approach to climate mitigation and broader operational sustainability. 11103, 11208).

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Blessings, joel HILLSDALE COLLEGE PARALLEL ECONOMIES—AGRICULTURE Joel Salatin This spring when Russia invaded Ukraine, fertilizer prices increased in some cases 400 percent and global grain shipments sputtered, our farm didn’t feel anything because we don’t buy fertilizer and we don’t buy foreign grain. SEGREGATED VERSUS INTEGRATED.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

It’s not just settlers taking land in the West Bank; in March the Israeli government annexed nearly 2,000 acres of the fertile Jordan Valley. A young farmer called Yousef, whose farm was destroyed in recent bombings, has already begun distributing heirloom seedlings. Don’t leave us alone, we’re not okay.”

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