Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

The pet food industry traditionally relies on factory farm byproducts for its ingredients, a practice the industry touts as more sustainable as it produces less waste and cheaper food. But dog owners distrust this mysterious supply chain. Farm Hounds jerky. Your dog definitely wants this dehydrated chicken head chew.

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Food Farming Farming Compost 86

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road near the familys farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community. Patrick currently operates Brown Family Farms on the land that Byron worked as a sharecropper once he was freed.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 141

Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

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. The Common Market Working in four regional hubs, The Common Market is a nonprofit food distributor connecting urban communities with local food grown on family farms.

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Cultivation Food Marketing Distribution 85

Caff

JANUARY 26, 2022

During the pandemic, when vulnerabilities in our global supply chain become apparent, the Food Hub stepped up, pivoting to provide food direct to consumers. Since 1980, this organic farm located along Putah Creek in Winters, CA, has been a leader in regenerative agriculture. Self reliance runs deep in this part of California.

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Farming Farming Orchard Food 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 7, 2024

In the race to reduce such food waste, some farmers are turning to technologies to conserve resources and cut losses before produce even leaves the farm. They are using composting systems and anaerobic digesters to turn waste into fertilizer for the next planting. My farm routinely has trouble finding workers,” he wrote.

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Technology Food Farming Farming 75

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. 12103, 7124).

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Ruralism Food Farming Farming 111

Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

They are behind the Fair Food Program , a partnership that seeks to create a more ethical supply chain that benefits workers, growers, retailers, and eaters. The organization aims to address systemic food supply chain issues and ultimately eliminate the need for their work.

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