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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. Patagonia tasked each brewery to create a new beer made with Kernza ®.

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Guest Post: Is the Future of Organic Food at Risk? Research Funding Holds the Answer

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

They offer valuable resources and practical solutions for organic and transitioning producers, as well as conventional producers interested in ecologically and economically sound practices. New organic crop and whole-rotation budgeting tools to help new and aspiring organic farmers assess and manage the economic risks of organic transition.

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The Farmers Leaning On Each Other’s Tools

Civil Eats

For three years, Nathanael Gonzales-Siemens drove up California’s coast for 14 hours every month for a routine task: milling his grain into flour. “I We’ve got 150 acres of grain.” He found this disconcerting, not only for himself but the future of small-scale grain farming in California, once known for its golden hills of grain.

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Sequestering Carbon Is Not Just A Science But An Art, Too

Modern Farmer

She’s an award-winning professor of New Media at SUNY Purchase where she teaches Dark Ecology, a class closely aligned with her work in the ecological art space. So, the experiment combined “technosol,” also known as human-engineered soil, a mix of sediment and compost, in different ratios. Singer is notably not a scientist.

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On the Ground with the Midwest Farmers Going All-In On Agroforestry

Modern Farmer

They ate grains that couldn’t be sold.” Photos courtesy of Wendy Johnson) The sheep were getting sick from eating too much grain, so Johnson worked to reestablish a natural savanna, a mixed woodland and grassland ecosystem that had once been prevalent on Iowa’s landscape but was destroyed by grazing and row crops. Johnson laughs.

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Bold Climate & Agriculture Bill Introduced in Congress

Caff

This Earth Day, CAFF is proud to endorse this bill on behalf of our members as part of the solution to the climate crisis, recognizing the invaluable role that ecologically-focused farmers and ranchers can play. 100 million a year would be available for compost infrastructure.

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Unlocking the Hidden Value of Agri-Food By-Products

Food Tank

Consumers often don’t think about the potato peels, cheese whey, or the brewer’s spent grain left over from their production. “Brewer’s spent grain retains a substantial number of proteins and fibers,” explains Maarten, noting that these components used as new ingredients for food products such as pasta and bread. .

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