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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
They offer valuable resources and practical solutions for organic and transitioning producers, as well as conventional producers interested in ecologically and economically sound practices. Positive signs are on the horizon.
Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
In addition to organic practices including composting and perennial cover crops, he added a silvopasture for his grass-fed cattle. Elderberry, becoming popular as a hedgerow crop, provides both farm income and ecological benefits. Crombie is optimistic that agroforestry will go a long way in restoring land but also rural communities.
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The Lunatic Farmer
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Many have zero rural experience, connections, or history. We need more people in rural America to make a critical mass that will keep the livestock, equipment, and feed suppliers in business. This new generation of homesteaders is a shot in the arm for rural communities. These newcomers need a why.
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.
Civil Eats
JANUARY 8, 2024
In this sense, California Plowshares is a return to the kind of rural sharing economies that once arose naturally between farmers in tight-knit communities but have become much less common in recent years. To get [your mulch or compost] spread in a timely manner was really quite impossible,” said Gonzales-Siemens.
Modern Farmer
MARCH 20, 2024
The research from the University of Michigan-led study seems to show that fruit and vegetables grown in urban ag have a carbon footprint six times larger than that of “conventionally grown” food (meaning, on rural farmland). I see that shift happening already on farms both urban and rural, big and small.
ATTRA
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
But it’s generated some pretty negative outcomes, including widespread degradation of land, water, and ecosystems, leaving rural communities gutted and left to the tumbleweeds. Until then, it seems to me a comprehensive, ecological approach is what’s needed. Diversity of food crops and flowering annuals. Legume and grass covers.
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