Compost Food Straw 
Civil Eats
APRIL 29, 2024
Steve Ela is an organic fruit grower in western Colorado who relies on compost to nourish his heirloom tomato crop each year. Ela knows first-hand how central compost is to his organic farm—and all organic agriculture. Department of Agriculture (USDA) compost rules could dramatically change the meaning of organic compost for farmers.
Modern Farmer
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Harward and some families gathered food for the family, but she knew more had to be done. It was her daughter who mentioned all the food going to waste at her school and asked her mom a simple question: Why couldn’t they give families the food from her school instead of throwing it away? Helping Hands Ending Hunger.
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Civil Eats
MARCH 19, 2024
It’s also one with many potential uses ; it can be used as compost, as a means of decontaminating soil, as biofuel, and simply for growing more mushrooms. Stempel currently takes most of the material to a nearby compost facility, but local farms, gardeners, and florists also take a portion. It wasn’t a tough sell. In the U.S.,
Sustainable Food Trust
APRIL 10, 2024
In 2021, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) published a major report on plastic use in farming. Farmers once used straw or other organic matter instead of plastic mulch. Find it on our podcast page along with more conversations with leading figures from the world of sustainable food and farming.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 4, 2023
In China, for example, research shows that plastic field covers keep the soil warm and wet in a way that boosts productivity considerably; an additional 15,000 square miles of arable land—an area about the size of Switzerland—would be required to produce the same amount of food. But it carries the highest risks.”
The Farmers Daughter USA
JUNE 12, 2023
Although most of us imagine that it has something to do with swapping plastic straws for paper straw, it’s something that goes much further. These tiny particles can be ingested by aquatic organisms and can enter the food chain, potentially impacting human health. A Pressing Problem Plastic pollution is a major problem.
Civil Eats
MARCH 11, 2024
Robb sees his work of coaxing beneficial fungi back into the soil, which he largely learned from an online program called the Soil Food Web School , as both a challenge to mainstream agriculture and as a way forward to restore agricultural soils. But working to both protect and encourage fungi on farms is a way to reverse course.
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