National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Earlier this summer, NSAC and 140 other organizations, farms, and food businesses delivered a letter to Congressional Appropriators requesting them to maintain funding for the office to help sustain its impacts across urban, suburban, and rural communities.

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Agriculture Agriculture Production Rural Development 59

ATTRA

OCTOBER 31, 2023

If you have an unkempt area on a farm, some highly predator- resistant fencing and a few goats will get it under control tout de suite! Instead of throwing garden refuse away or composting it, one could instead chop it up and drop it as mulch back into the garden. That’s a great trait for land-clearing. Mulberry ( Morus sp.)

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Rural Development Manure Compost Pasture 85

ATTRA

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

My little mad farm helps me do that. And since cover cropping is scalable to just about any size farm or garden, it made sense to conduct some field experiments of my own. If you missed them, you can read them here and here. I wrote these blogs because, as an agricultural educator, I need to ground truth what I teach.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 2, 2024

When you step into a high tunnel, you’re moving off your farm in terms of temperature, humidity, and frost dates. Salts from added compost, manure, or fertilizers can build up in the rain-free environment of a tunnel and accumulate near the soil surface, affecting crop growth.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Importantly, compost cannot be used as a growing medium for microgreens due to the high risk of foodborne illness and contamination. Partnerships with local restaurants : Many restaurants, especially those focusing on gourmet or farm-to-table menus, are interested in sourcing high-quality microgreens.

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RR2CS

AUGUST 28, 2023

I call this one Regenerating Rural Opportunities. Over the next couple of months, Regeneration Canada will host farm-to-table events (Alberta, yours is coming up in September) and create short films on the same producers I am interviewing for the series. I decided to call it regenerating rural opportunities.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

By Audrey Kolde , NCAT Agriculture Specialist As a nongenerational farmer, most of my agricultural experiences before entering the field of farming and food systems had huge impacts on my decision to farm, from childhood memories of wild blackberries to college-age harvesting of carrots. Please, Jesus, take the wheel.

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Seeding Crop Harvester Harvest 52

ATTRA

AUGUST 15, 2023

On the gate hangs an 18-inch-long pallet board with the words “Mad Farm” painted in green. Though I will invite a similar community on the farm next year, and they will be cousins of these plants, these will have passed once again into the soil, their essence to arise in next year’s tomatoes. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Sometimes the people designing our policies don’t know the reality” of those whose livelihoods are in fishing and farming, she says. “We Having good seed won’t help you if your entire farm gets flooded,” says Sara Scherr, President and CEO of EcoAgriculture Partners. Start composting: via NRDC : Food waste in the U.S.

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Food Finance Agriculture Agriculture 58

ATTRA

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

A perennial plant might require more quality compost added to the soil to help swing the balance of soil microbes to a more favorable fungus content. The answer to whether a crop is an annual or a perennial can be a clue to the ecological succession stage the soil needs to be in for ideal production.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

40 Acres & A Mule Project , United States 40 Acres & A Mule seeks to acquire Black-owned farmland to be used to celebrate and preserve the history, food, and stories of Black culture in food and farming. promoting environmentally sound farming practices, and keeping farmers on their land.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Ruralism 139

ATTRA

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Voices of farm workers, young people in shorts and muck boots and wide brimmed straw hats drift across the fields. I see myriad varieties of vegetable crops one after the other in planned succession–seedlings and vegetative and fruiting–and I can smell the musty earthiness of the compost pile in the center of the field plots.

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