Civil Eats

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Sitting high atop a cart emblazoned with the mission of “Keeping Mackinac Beautiful,” a city sanitation worker maneuvers a two-horse team through the fray, stopping periodically to collect trash and compost. This iconic Great Lakes vacation spot has been running a composting program since the 1990s. are adopting composting each year.

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ATTRA

MARCH 13, 2025

A study led by Griffith University researchers in Australia found that compost applied to agricultural land contains significant amounts of microplastics. Over time, accumulated microplastics can alter soil structure, limit plant growth, hinder the cycling of nutrients, and disrupt microbial communities, affecting overall farm productivity.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 7, 2025

Join a community compost initiative or start one if theres a need. Cycle the compost back into small-scale ecological gardening and farming. Find an initiative or learn how to start your own through the Community Compost Program. Join a community-led ecological food initiative.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 15, 2024

Rentsch does this work for Soil Cycle , a compost-based nonprofit. Not only do Soil Cycle’s staff pick up the food scraps, but a few times a year, its customers can pick up the end result: compost for their home gardens. “I ” A few times a year, Soil Cycle is able to give the actual compost back to the customers. “We’re

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Rifrullo Café, a cozy farm-to-table restaurant in Brookline, Massachusetts, hums with customers on a steamy July mid-morning. Invisible’ Waste: For Restaurants, Composting Food Scraps Is Just the Beginning Cooking, refrigeration, air conditioning, water use, and packaging contribute to greenhouse gas emissions too.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 7, 2025

Organic lime farming focuses on cultivating lime trees using sustainable, eco-friendly methods. This approach avoids synthetic chemicals, emphasizing natural inputs like compost and organic fertilizers. Organic lime farming enhances soil health and the environment.

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Organic cowpea farming is a sustainable agricultural practice focusing on growing cowpeas without synthetic chemicals. Organic cowpea farming relies on natural inputs like compost and organic fertilizers. This method enhances soil health and reduces environmental damage.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The New Earth Project is developing compost processes to create a symbiotic relationship and benefit the community. Carbon Capture through Composting New Earth collects food surplus from three school cafeterias and combines it with woody biomass, agricultural byproducts, and biochar in Johnson-Su compost bioreactors.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 9, 2024

These activity books, cookbooks, and stories celebrate diverse foodways and farming practices from across the world, uplift the power of community, and celebrate all that pollinators do for global food and farming systems. At the end of the book, readers will also find detailed information about each farming practice.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 7, 2025

Organic rubber farming focuses on producing natural rubber without the use of synthetic chemicals. Organic rubber farming involves cultivating rubber trees using organic inputs like compost and natural fertilizers. Organic rubber farming involves cultivating rubber trees using organic inputs like compost and natural fertilizers.

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Organic cucumber farming focuses on growing cucumbers using natural methods, avoiding synthetic chemicals. Organic cucumber farming promotes biodiversity and soil health. Farmers rely on organic fertilizers, natural pest control, and sustainable practices to ensure a healthy crop while protecting the environment.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 11, 2025

Organic Mandarin farming is an agricultural approach focused on growing mandarins without synthetic chemicals. Organic Mandarin farming prioritizes soil health and sustainability. By using organic fertilizers and compost, it helps in reducing environmental degradation caused by conventional farming practices.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 13, 2025

Organic Barley Farming is the practice of cultivating barley without the use of synthetic pesticides, fertilizers, or genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Organic Barley Farming prioritizes the use of organic inputs like compost, manure, and cover crops to nourish the soil.

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Organic Orange Farming focuses on cultivating oranges without synthetic chemicals. This farming method emphasizes natural fertilizers and sustainable practices to produce healthy, chemical-free fruits. Organic Orange Farming aims to maintain soil health and biodiversity.

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Organic Guinea Corn farming involves cultivating Guinea Corn without synthetic chemicals, relying on natural methods to maintain soil fertility and control pests. Organic Guinea Corn farming promotes biodiversity by encouraging crop rotation, intercropping, and the use of organic compost.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 12, 2024

The Compost Reimbursement Program is a grant program that reimburses Washington farmers who purchase compost from eligible commercial facilities in the state. Participating farms are eligible for 50% reimbursement on qualifying costs including compost purchases and associated transportation, equipment, and labor costs.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 12, 2025

Organic beet farming is a sustainable agricultural practice that focuses on growing beets without synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, or genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Organic beet farming uses crop rotation, composting, and natural pest control to maintain soil fertility.

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Organic maize farming focuses on growing maize without synthetic chemicals, relying on natural methods for pest control and fertilization. Organic maize farming involves using organic seeds and natural inputs like compost and manure. Organic maize farming involves using organic seeds and natural inputs like compost and manure.

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Organic Guava Farming focuses on growing guavas without synthetic chemicals, ensuring healthy fruit production. This method supports biodiversity and maintains soil health, providing a natural approach to farming that benefits both the farmer and the environment.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 9, 2025

Organic walnut farming is an eco-friendly method of growing walnuts without synthetic chemicals. Organic walnut farming benefits the environment by reducing chemical use and improving sustainability. It focuses on maintaining soil health and promoting biodiversity. This method produces healthier crops.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 7, 2025

Organic grapefruit farming focuses on growing grapefruits without synthetic chemicals or pesticides. This farming method results in healthier fruits and a safer environment. Organic grapefruit farming relies on organic inputs like compost and natural fertilizers.

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Organic oil palm farming is a sustainable approach to cultivating oil palms without synthetic inputs. Organic oil palm farming focuses on enhancing soil health through compost, organic fertilizers, and crop rotation. This… Read More » Complete Practical Guide on Organic Oil Palm Farming

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Organic mushroom farming is a sustainable way of producing mushrooms without synthetic chemicals. Organic mushroom farming involves growing mushrooms using organic substrates like composted manure, straw, or sawdust.

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Caff

APRIL 20, 2021

This video explores on-farm composting, including a brief overview of California’s new best management practices mandate for on-farm composting as well as the food safety and organic requirements. Hear from two different farmers, including a on-site video of the Frog Hollow Farm composting operation.

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Civil Eats

MAY 14, 2024

The mayor's budget cuts will eliminate a 30-year-old program that achieved much more than reducing food waste.

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Caff

JUNE 3, 2022

Spreadwing Farm, located in the Capay Valley, utilizes compost in their vegetable crops to improve the quality of the soil and provide plant available nutrients. Learn more about the benefits, tradeoffs, and challenges Liz Schroeder of Spreadwing Farm has seen with compost application. Read the case study here.

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Caff

MAY 2, 2024

On April 10th, Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) hosted a field day at Heartwood Farms in Linden, CA with farmers Franz Eilers and Emma Wade to discuss all things compost and pest management on their biologically-integrated walnut and cherry orchards. Farmers Franz and Emma introduce Heartwood Farms.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

AUGUST 27, 2024

Interested in improving soil on your farm? Attend this fall field day to learn about the benefits of biochar and compost as soil carbon amendments. He has explored the production and application of biochar and compost through his academic work as well as his own operation, SOIL Farm.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 10, 2025

To help you start and manage a successful small- or large-scale compost business, or how to best compost on your small farm, we have shared some insights in this article.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 5, 2024

This is commonly regarded as the first introduction of plastic into agriculture, a move that would transform modern farming—and inadvertently deposit an untold amount of plastic in the soil. In the decades that followed, this cheap, pliant material spread through farms across the U.S.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 3, 2025

Organic curry farming involves cultivating curry plants without the use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, or genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The focus is on maintaining soil health, enhancing biodiversity, and following sustainable farming practices.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 7, 2023

After half their farm’s crops were wiped out by a devastating heat wave in 2018, Ellee Igoe and Hernan Cavazos, co-founders of Solidarity Farm, changed their practices with the explicit goal of adding more carbon to the soil, or “carbon farming.” it was more economically viable if we grew that capacity for lots of farms.”

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Sustainable Harvest International

APRIL 22, 2025

SUPPORT FAMILY FARMERS THIS EARTH DAY AND EVERY DAY FOOD FOR THOUGHT: HOW FARMING IMPACTS THE ENVIRONMENT How we grow our food directly affects the health of our planet. Conventional farming often leads to deforestation and degrades the soil, stripping it of the nutrients plants need to thrive.

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CalCAN

MAY 29, 2024

Earlier this month, CalCAN organized a tour of two organic dairies and a farm in Sonoma County.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 21, 2024

And of course, it’s not like for every PLNT Burger sold, a factory farm gives up five acres of land, or releases a cow from the slaughter line—actually meaningful solutions to the factory meat problem. Table to Farm: Can Restaurants Serve Climate Education? Some workers are taking matters into their own hands.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 6, 2025

They are destined for greatness in the form of chocolate bars, dried beans and tea at Lavaloha Chocolate Farm in Hilo. Here, growers are making fresh kokoleka, or chocolate in lelo Hawaii (Hawaiian language), through mindful agricultural practices: creating their own soil and compost, contracting with locals, and using organic fertilizer.

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RR2CS

MARCH 29, 2022

Topic: Biochar, Compost, and Agroforestry – Three Keystones of Soil and Climate Resilience for Alberta Date: May 4th at 1:00PM Presenter: Rob Lavoie of AirTerra Cost: FREE Biochar is a charcoal-like substance that is made by burning organic material from agricultural and food wastes. Want to prepare for the webinar?

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