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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.
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
JUNE 5, 2024
Emmert, a horticulturist at the University of Kentucky, was tinkering around with how to build a cheap greenhouse. 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 1948, E.M.
Caff
APRIL 15, 2024
Photo Credit Bonnie Veblen As part of CAFF’s Ecological Farming Program , we collaborate with farmers to implement and better understand ecologically-based farming practices, which include climate smart farming and soil health practices.
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.
Modern Farmer
AUGUST 16, 2024
Many labels that guarantee humane treatment of farm animals (e.g., It’s unlikely, for example, that when a consumer sees one of these labels on Alexandre milk products in a Whole Foods Market, they imagine a field of dead cows being used as compost, or decaying cow corpses dangling into waterways, likely violating state water quality laws.
Modern Farmer
JANUARY 22, 2024
Among those benefits, growing food in backyards, community gardens or urban farms can shrink the distance fruits and vegetables have to travel between producers and consumers – what’s known as the “food mile” problem. But is urban agriculture really as climate-friendly as many people think? Our study, published Jan.
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