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Rurbanization: It's Time To Make Cities More Rural

Agritecture Blog

The garden, atop a building near the Denver Coliseum, was purpose-built for Bousselot’s brand of research in an up-and-coming scientific field: rooftop farming. You don’t have to set this up as a dichotomy between urban and rural, really,” says Bousselot. What we should probably focus on is resilience overall.” “The

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Congress Puts Federal Support for Urban Farming on the Chopping Block

Civil Eats

Spivey, Zama, and Flores operate three of 10 different farm businesses at the Urban Farm Incubator at Watkins Regional Park in Prince George’s County, Maryland, located just outside of Washington, D.C. While lawmakers authorized $25 million annually in the 2018 Farm Bill, Congress must reallocate the money each year.

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Q&A: Why Do Small-Scale Farmers Persist in Place?

Daily Yonder

Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. He grew up on a small farm in Marshall County, Tennessee, and lives in Memphis now. Enjoy our conversation about Wendell Berry, the fall of tobacco, and “right-sized” farming, below. Brooks Lamb on his family’s farm.

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Cultivating Profits in a Compact Crop

Modern Farmer

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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A Deep Dive on the Senate’s Farm Bill Proposal: the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

On May 1, 2024 – after months of stalled farm bill negotiations on both sides of Capitol Hill – Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) released a detailed section-by-section summary of her farm bill proposal. Strengthening the Farm and Food System Workforce (Sec. 11205, 12201).

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