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 Distribution Harvest Harvesting 133

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. 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.

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Cultivation Food Marketing Distribution 105

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 brewery is located on a small but busy farm with apple orchards, market gardens, two greenhouses, an apiary, and a flock of chickens. In 2016, Rhum J.M

Beverage 124

Beverage Ecology Compost Cultivation 124

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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Farming Farming Crop Agriculture 131

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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Farming Farming Orchard Food 52

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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Orchard Crop Family Farming Farming 73

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7 Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s. He fertilizes with compost tea, a mixture he creates of compost and water. He used the money to pay off the farm loans he had with the U.S.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 113