Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 29, 2023

Soil pH: In some cases, nightcrawler activity can lead to localized pH changes, making the soil more alkaline due to their digestive processes. Avoiding the use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers that may harm earthworms and other beneficial organisms helps preserve the delicate ecological balance in your garden.

Compost 97

Compost Fertilizer Ecology Pesticide 97

Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

” He eventually bought a mill from a grain farmer who went out of business, but finding the other equipment necessary for both farming and processing grain was an ongoing struggle. Prior to that, they had all either harvested by hand, an intensely laborious process, or hired someone with a combine.

Grain 144

Grain Orchard Farming Farming 144

Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 10, 2024

They are then worked upon by both chemical and biological processes, including water and more concerningly, earthworms. MPs are generated through the breakdown of larger plastics over time, gradually degrading to increasingly smaller residues.

Straw 98

Straw Farming Farming Ecology 98

ATTRA

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Where are we in the ecological succession? Trees exist in a different ecological succession stage than pioneering stage plants, also known as weeds. Ecological succession is the process by which plant communities change over time, eventually yielding a climax community. I did my graduate work in cotton.

Agroecology 40

Agroecology Crop Ecology Processing 40

Caff

APRIL 22, 2021

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. Grants of up to $500,000 would be available for small scale meat processing.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Agriculture Manure Compost 52

Food Tank

OCTOBER 7, 2023

These secondary products are generated during food processing and manufacturing and are often discarded—or underutilized. These by-products might seem like waste, but innovative processes can transform them into valuable resources. Nevertheless, potato peels are rich in polyphenols, compounds with antioxidant properties.

Food 65

Food Production Grain Technology 65

Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

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.

Cultivation 106

Cultivation Food Marketing Distribution 106

Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 29, 2023

Soil pH: In some cases, nightcrawler activity can lead to localized pH changes, making the soil more alkaline due to their digestive processes. Avoiding the use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers that may harm earthworms and other beneficial organisms helps preserve the delicate ecological balance in your garden.

Compost 52

Compost Fertilizer Ecology Pesticide 52

The Gleaning Project of South Central PA

MAY 16, 2022

It is also a strain on the billions of dollars and manhours that are spent processing, growing and disposing of the food we waste outside of the resources that are wasted to produce food that cannot be recovered. Composting and repurposing food scraps can make a huge impact!

Food 52

Food Greenhouse Compost Ecology 52

ATTRA

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

I’ve seen the synthesis of diversity, in plants and practice, stimulate ecosystem processes to yield the benefits that have accrued to this feral garden. Until then, it seems to me a comprehensive, ecological approach is what’s needed. I sit on the garden porch and reflect on the various practices I have incorporated here.

Crop 52

Crop Farming Farming Crop Rotation 52

CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

In its focus on expanding local processing and markets, as well as more localized nutrient cycling, the bill aims to support programs that effectively bolster local food and farm systems. The Agriculture Resilience Act (ARA) addresses all of those additional areas that the IRA does not.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Food 52

Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 22, 2023

This ongoing process has resulted in an ever-expanding array of color patterns and forms, adding to the allure of this succulent. This process can take several years, depending on the desired size and shape of your bonsai. Look for a plant with a straight, healthy trunk and attractive leaves.

Pruning 98

Pruning Cultivation Fertilizer Seeding 98

Kavya Organic Farm

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

This ongoing process has resulted in an ever-expanding array of color patterns and forms, adding to the allure of this succulent. This process can take several years, depending on the desired size and shape of your bonsai. Look for a plant with a straight, healthy trunk and attractive leaves.

Pruning 98

Pruning Cultivation Fertilizer Seeding 98

Caff

JUNE 6, 2023

Guided by the hypotheses and general interests of these farmers, we helped UC Berkeley researchers sample and process soils to look at how farming practices of minimizing tillage, applying compost and intercropping affect soil health at different partner farms.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Family Farming Agroecology 52

Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 29, 2023

Soil pH: In some cases, nightcrawler activity can lead to localized pH changes, making the soil more alkaline due to their digestive processes. Avoiding the use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers that may harm earthworms and other beneficial organisms helps preserve the delicate ecological balance in your garden.

Compost 40

Compost Fertilizer Ecology Pesticide 40

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The UEI is part of larger efforts to streamline federal grant making processes. The UEI is assigned by SAM as part of the registration process and replaces the DUNS number. Developing SHMS that include applying carbon amendments such as compost or biochar with evaluations of the effects on soil carbon and soil health.

Farming 90

Farming Farming Forestry Technology 90

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

This refers to the natural processes by which all living things eventually die, decay and under normal circumstances return to the earth to be recycled. What he could not have known is that the processes he describes, depend, amongst other things, on the action of mycorrhizal fungi.

Ploughing 52

Ploughing Crop Yield Farming 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

As many portions of the country cannot transition fully to year-round, grass-based livestock systems, we believe it is vital for funding to be dedicated to AMMP technologies to ensure instances where confinement is likely to continue are as ecologically friendly as they can be. Improves program outreach to limited resource producers.

Ruralism 110

Ruralism Food Farming Farming 110

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Farmers euthanized (that means killed and threw away) millions of chickens, turkeys, and hogs because mega-processing plants couldn’t maintain operations. But instead it shackled us, enslaved us to nefarious scientists bringing us fertilizer and menus from laboratories instead of from God’s ecological womb. Isn’t that beautiful?

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Manure 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Failure to robustly fund public research that promotes ecologically-based production systems stifles scientific and technical innovation and leaves US farmers and ranchers unable to fully participate in and benefit from emerging markets for sustainably-produced foods.

Farming 110

Farming Farming Agriculture Agriculture 110