ATTRA

JANUARY 15, 2025

The hurricane’s downpour resulted in severe flooding, eroding topsoil and depositing debris combined with hazardous materials across businesses, homes, and farmlands. As I made my quest home, I witnessed the chaos my mountain neighbors were in. Click here for a comprehensive list.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

Leasing Farmland as a Collective In Longmont, Colorado, Helen Skiba and Nelson Esseveld run Artemis Flower Farm , while Cody Jurbala and Melissa Ogilvie run Speedwell Farm & Gardens. Together, they were approved for the lease. They contribute their success to aligned land management philosophies and great communication.

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Caff

MARCH 23, 2021

Agricultural Solutions to the Climate Crisis ($1.135 billion) — Sustainable agricultural solutions to slow the impacts of climate change and reduce pollution; strategies that reduce wildfire risk and invest in farmland conservation to keep our farms viable and resilient; compost infrastructure to build healthy soils; groundwater sustainability.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2024

He mostly grows salad greens across 3 acres of farmland. He steeps the compost like a tea, extracting the microorganisms in water, and then runs it through his irrigation system. In addition to applying compost tea, Robb supports fungal life by creating mulch from wood chips, which the fungi help decompose.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

To get [your mulch or compost] spread in a timely manner was really quite impossible,” said Gonzales-Siemens. Whelan hopes to one day own her own farm in Connecticut, the state that she notes has some of the most expensive farmland in the country. The companies are often booked months in advance. “To

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The Lunatic Farmer

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The Shenandoah National Park, which rides the Blue Ridge mountains just east of our farm, confiscated hundreds of smallholdings, taking farmland that had been in private ownership for generations. Many of those families are still wrestling with alcoholism and the sting of displacement. That’s a horrendous way to treat people.

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The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

They’d take a few hundred acres of both leased and family-owned central-Texas farmland—land that for decades had grown row crops of corn and cotton—and give it “what it wants back,” he said. See full series Back around 2011, Jonathan Cobb and his wife, Kaylyn, had what he calls a “simple game plan.”

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Modern Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

There’s also the loss of farmland due to a confluence of factors. Some studies show California’s farmland acreage will be reduced by about 20 percent by 2040. There are sheep grazing between the trees, cover crops of grasses and legumes, spot irrigation and increased composting. Sheep grazing in almond groves.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 16, 2024

The high cost of a permit (up to $5,000 annually) forced her to end her composting program this spring. Porter’s farm faces another common challenge: he doesn’t own his farmland. It was only after extensive advocacy with other community groups that the U.S. Department of Agriculture approved her application in 2023.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Through their Resource Center programming, the Alliance offers trainings and workshops; volunteer and labor support; compost, tools, and equipment; and capacity building grants. They also bring local government leaders together to develop plans that integrate urban agriculture into city planning processes.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Yet their pervasive use—along with farmland, plastics cover everything from individual seeds to bales of hay and packaged produce—has allowed them to plant themselves deeply in our food supply. In the larger scope, agriculture accounts for a small slice of the plastics pie—less than 3 percent of the annual 440 million tons produced worldwide.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

Transforming the food and farming system through the above domains as well as through crop insurance, agroforestry, organic farming, farmland protection, pasture-based systems, conservation set-asides, manure management, and agrivoltaic systems, the bill creates a clear focus on farm and food system resilience.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Raised concrete beds laid with 2 feet of compost successfully transformed the vacant lot into farmland. After conversations with city officials, Growing Home’s farming and training operations moved in 2006 to Englewood, a residential community on the city’s South side.

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Organic Garden Farmer

JULY 11, 2021

The great news is that it is possible to convert dirt or any soil with issues into a healthy fertile garden or farmland. In the 2nd Experiment, an assessment of applied compost (biomass) has been conducted, and it confirmed the observation from the 1st experiment.

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Organic Garden Farmer

JULY 11, 2021

The great news is that it is possible to convert dirt or any soil with issues into a healthy fertile garden or farmland. In the 2nd Experiment, an assessment of applied compost (biomass) has been conducted, and it confirmed the observation from the 1st experiment.

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CalCAN

AUGUST 15, 2023

It would cover the cost of installing equipment and infrastructure for dry scraping manure or separating solids to produce compost for bedding, for application to fields as a substitute for chemical fertilizer, or for sale. Transitioning to or increasing pasture-based production would also be eligible.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Cost to rent farmland in San Diego is three times the national average. K” Kolodge, who manages soils and compost for the dairy, said it would be tough to ensure predictable yield on rainwater alone. That makes lower-profit wheat a pretty hard sell. They just cut it, bale it, and feed it to the cows. Craig “Dr.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

As westward expansion swept across the region in the late 1800s, settlers began draining the 40-foot deep lake for farmland. The Alternative Manure Management Program also offers a more cost-effective and greener alternative to bio-digesters, minimizing methane at the source by up to 90 percent and simultaneously generating compost.

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CalCAN

AUGUST 10, 2023

Christine shared her experience seeing how speculative investment in agricultural land has increased farmland values and made it really challenging to find affordable land. Earlier this year, a nearby parcel that would have been ideal to expand Christine’s operation became available.

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Caff

JANUARY 26, 2022

Together, they’re safeguarding affordable access to the farmland by providing a long-term lease to Mountain Bounty so that it continues to produce local, organic food in an ecologically responsible way for generations to come.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Today, the approximately 40,000 Black farmers remaining in America own less than 1 percent of the countrys farmland. He fertilizes with compost tea, a mixture he creates of compost and water. Between 1910 and 2017, the percentage of Black farmers declined from 14 percent of all farmers to less than 2 percent.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

They’re also working on adding a composting processing site, neighbor approval pending. “We This is rare in Minnesota and other the parts of the corn belt, where the water on millions of acres drain directly to waterways due to the ceramic pipes, or drainage tiles , that were installed below farmland over the last century.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

Both durable and efficient, with no need for farmland or vast amounts of water, it threatened to leave natural fibers like cotton in the dust. percent of the world’s farmland but uses 4.7 According to its website, the material decays in controlled composting conditions. Polyester was once thought to be a wonder fiber.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

By ‘lack of humus’ he is referring to the increasing trend, even then, to dispense with returning organic matter to the soil, for example, in the form of composted farmyard manure, that was made possible by the development of synthetic fertilisers. .” By ‘short-circuit’ feeding, he means the use of artificial fertilisers.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

However, NSAC is disheartened to see no reference to establishing composting as a national practice standard in the RPFSA. On-farm composting is foundational to many operations’ approach to climate mitigation and broader operational sustainability.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Sir Albert Howard, who developed the scientific aerobic composting method and brought it to the world in his iconic 1943 book, An Agricultural Testament , wrote “Artificial manures [that’s what he called chemical fertilizer] lead inevitably to artificial nutrition, artificial food, artificial animals, and finally to artificial men and women.”

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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. American Farmland Trust (AFT) , United States AFT is dedicated to protecting and preserving farmland and ranchland in the U.S.,

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

The destruction of vital infrastructure and farmland, the mass displacement of people and the blocking of food aid has created acute food insecurity for the entire population of 2.2 Since October, 40% of Gaza’s total farmland has been destroyed by bombs and bulldozers. million people, and famine conditions in half the territory.

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