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

JANUARY 7, 2025

Organic Tangerine Farming focuses on growing tangerines without synthetic chemicals or pesticides. Organic tangerine farming is becoming more popular as consumers demand healthier produce. Organic Tangerine Farming requires natural methods for pest control, soil fertility, and crop growth.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 3, 2025

Organic apples farming is a sustainable agricultural practice that focuses on growing apples without synthetic chemicals. Organic apples farming prioritizes ecological balance. It uses natural methods to promote soil health, control pests, and maintain biodiversity while yielding high-quality fruits.

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Organic Watermelon Farming focuses on growing watermelons without synthetic chemicals or pesticides, promoting natural and eco-friendly methods. Organic Watermelon Farming involves using organic fertilizers, compost, and sustainable farming techniques.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 7, 2025

Organic lettuce farming is a sustainable and eco-friendly method of growing lettuce without synthetic chemicals. It focuses on natural inputs like compost and crop rotation to maintain soil health and promote plant growth. Organic lettuce farming is gaining popularity due to the growing demand for pesticide-free, healthy produce.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The brand’s Star Hill Farm is the first distillery farm to receive certification from Regenified for its commitment to soil, water, and ecosystem longevity. The company composts all fruit scraps, tea, herbs, cultures, and paper towels while also saving over 1,100 gallons of water per day through their recapture system.

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Sustainable Harvest International

OCTOBER 2, 2024

While beneficial farming practices should be the norm, the unfortunate reality is that many individuals and companies farm in a destructive way, negatively impacting us all. Conventional agriculture heavily relies on synthetic chemicals in the form of fertilizers and pesticides. The opposite of Regenerative is Degenerative.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

These synthetic polymer products have often been used to help boost yields up to 60 percent and make water and pesticide use more efficient. Currently organic farms are permitted to use petroleum-based, non-PVC covers, granted that they are removed from the field at season’s end. plastics policy.

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Food Tank

MARCH 29, 2024

Last year, the city of Chicago launched a composting program that allows residents to drop off food scraps at 15 locations around the city, where they’re collected and turned into compost for soil. When I look out at the state of the food system, I see so much that’s going well. Just take food waste, for example.

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Farmbrite

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

We all know that farming can be a challenging gig, but with a few nifty tricks up your sleeve, you can turn your farm into a powerhouse of productivity and fun. In this article, we'll share the top 10 tips to boost your farm's efficiency, productivity, and yields – all with a dash of farm flair!

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

Check out our companion piece: How to Start a Backyard or Urban Farm—Whether You Own Land or Not As a renter millennial, I wanted to start farming. This is a common sentiment among many student-loan-saddled millennials and Gen Z-ers who want to work with the land but don’t have land that they own to start gardening or farming.

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Caff

MARCH 23, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic has revealed weaknesses within our food and farming system and exacerbated long-standing inequities. This measure aims to deliver healthy food to the most vulnerable Californians while climate-proofing our farms that face droughts, wildfires, and extreme weather. Find a recording of the press conference here.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Armed with little more than ingenuity and entrepreneurial drive, microgreen growers are transforming the unused corners of their dwellings into profitable farming operations. After finishing college seven years ago, the “video gam- playing, beer-drinking kid” dusted off a section of his parents’ Long Island cellar to launch his micro farm.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

Urban ag is any kind of food production space within a city, inclusive of commercial farms that grow and sell directly to consumers, non-profit farms that serve a broader mission, community gardens, school gardens and even vacant lots turned into thriving personal gardens or homesteads. Oxford Tract research farm at UC Berkeley.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Photo credit: Matt Ryan/Sandra Wayman Editor’s Note: This blog post is a guest post authored by Gordon Merrick, Senior Policy and Programs Manager at the Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF) and Mark Schonbeck, Research Associate, also at OFRF, which is an NSAC member.

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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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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 29, 2023

Chemical pesticides may harm beneficial earthworm populations and other non-target organisms. 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. Can I use chemical pesticides to control worms in lawns?

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Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 24, 2023

Laborious activities like farming, construction, traffic, etc can negatively impact the soil by changing its chemical structure, which is why fertilisers are required to keep the plants intact. Some traditional farming and agricultural methods, to date, use other methods of fertilising plants, especially farm manure and compost.

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Caff

MAY 1, 2023

(Photo by Nolan Kirby) The Community Alliance with Family Farms (CAFF) held a Biologically Integrated Orchard System (BIOS) field day at Chinchiolo Farms on April 20th. Emily Ayala, CAFF’s Ecological Farming Program Manager, kicked off the event by introducing CAFF and highlighting CAFF’s many different program areas.

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Kavya Organic Farm

OCTOBER 22, 2023

For organic farming enthusiasts, the garden is a sanctuary where sustainable practices meet natural beauty. Low-Maintenance Small Shrubs How to Farm Small Shrubs Choose the Right Shrubs: When choosing small shrubs for your front yard, make sure you select ones that are suitable for your climate and soil type. It grows up to 6 ft.

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 23, 2023

Soil is the foundation of your farm, the living system that provides nutrition for all the plants and animals that live there. Healthy soil can mean increased yields (and profits) as well as fewer inputs like fertilizer or pesticides. Here are six ways you can improve long-term soil health on your farm: What is soil health?

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Farmbrite

JUNE 19, 2023

Starting a Fruit Orchard on Your Farm Growing fruit trees or nut trees on your farm is a great way to be more self-sufficient and a great way to add items to your CSA, use the unwanted fruit to supplement feed for your animals, sell at your local farmers market or for personal use. Plant your trees! prepared for the long haul.

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The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

Adding a heavy dose of irony to the overall complexity of getting more acres farmed regeneratively is the fact that in some growing regions, this effort is being undermined by yet another critical climate solution: solar power. The challenges to farming, period—let alone transitioning to regenerative—can be high. It sounds easy.

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 29, 2023

Chemical pesticides may harm beneficial earthworm populations and other non-target organisms. 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. Can I use chemical pesticides to control worms in lawns?

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

Over the past seventy years, farming practices in the UK (and across much of the world) have intensified and industrialised, with devastating impacts on climate, nature and biodiversity. There will be more space for wild landscapes, as well as nature-rich upland farms.

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 19, 2023

Also Read:- Best practices for pest management in Organic farming 2. Composting Start composting kitchen scraps and garden waste to create nutrient-rich compost for your plants. Reduce Chemical Use Minimize the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. This reduces waste and enhances soil fertility.

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Caff

JUNE 13, 2023

Of the many rules in this law, the Produce Safety Rule (PSR) was created to address federal food safety requirements at the farm level, specifically for produce crops. There are three main ways crops can be contaminated on a farm: 1) physical, 2) chemical, and 3) biological. coli, and viruses.

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 29, 2023

Chemical pesticides may harm beneficial earthworm populations and other non-target organisms. 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. Can I use chemical pesticides to control worms in lawns?

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Farmbrite

MARCH 14, 2023

It helps reassure the customers, and public, that the farm handles food products in a way that reduces microbial and other potential hazards. The reduction helps prevent the risk of large economic losses like damage to farm reputation, drop in sales, and potential lawsuits. They help you prove you're doing what you say you do.

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Getting Started With Microgreens on Your Farm Microgreens are popular in home gardening, farming, and for chefs worldwide. With so many advantages they are definitely a crop to take a look second look at for your farm. This guide covers all the essential details you need to get started with microgreens on your farm.

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 18, 2023

Mix compost, peat moss, and perlite to create a balanced and aerated growing medium that promotes root development and prevents waterlogged soil. When growing beefsteak tomatoes in pots, choose a balanced fertilizer or organic compost that provides essential nutrients throughout the growing season.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

While I had always been interested in farming and food production, I equated Salatin, a self-described “Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer” with ranching, and so wasn’t compelled (right away anyway) to read his books. Knauf: You have a family history of farming; your father farmed and so did your grandfather.

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Sustainable Food Trust

DECEMBER 4, 2023

However, due to poor farming practices, soil is degrading at an alarming rate. Intensive farming methods fail to conserve soil quality, and, if we do not make significant changes in how we farm, food production will inevitably decline. Pesticides are damaging to soil, killing a range of organisms that are vital to soil health.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

It’s an ironic yet common occurrence: Although Western agriculture has begun embracing regenerative farming principles, the very people who have been using these practices since time immemorial have been socially, economically, and politically forced from the lands that sustain them. It’s another part of farming, right?” Soil is alive.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

In addition, most natural fibers are grown conventionally, which often means heavy use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers and genetically modified or treated seeds. percent of the world’s pesticides and 10 percent of its insecticides. According to its website, the material decays in controlled composting conditions.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But it wasn’t until he became the beverage director at Farm and Fisherman Tavern in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, that he fully combined his passions for ethnobotany and mixology. It reads as a love letter to his land, his herd, and his rural community and a manifesto on how and why to farm in a way that protects them all.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

Over recent years, no-till farming has been widely advocated as one of the ways to make farming more sustainable. It is also one of the paid options under Defra’s Sustainable Farming Incentive. What he could not have known is that the processes he describes, depend, amongst other things, on the action of mycorrhizal fungi.

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