Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

For three years, Nathanael Gonzales-Siemens drove up California’s coast for 14 hours every month for a routine task: milling his grain into flour. “I We’ve got 150 acres of grain.” He found this disconcerting, not only for himself but the future of small-scale grain farming in California, once known for its golden hills of grain.

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Grain Orchard Farming Farming 115

Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

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. The vineyards are weeded only using hoes, never herbicides, and fertilized with manure. Boochcraft, United States Boochraft produces kombucha, an alcoholic fermented tea.

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Beverage Ecology Compost Cultivation 120

Food Tank

DECEMBER 9, 2024

by Brooke Jorden, illustrated by Kay Widdowson, with Kitchen Connection Based on The Cookbook in Support of the United Nations: For People and Planet , this childrens book takes young eaters on a journey to discover the origins of their favorite fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes. Outdoor Farm, Indoor Farm by Lindsay H.

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Food Farming Farming Grain 110

Caff

APRIL 22, 2021

“The ARA adopts many strategies pioneered in California” said CAFF Policy Director, Dave Runsten, “such as the Healthy Soils Program, the diversion of organic matter from landfills, and the Alternative Manure Management Program. 100 million a year would be available for compost infrastructure.

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Agriculture Agriculture Manure Compost 52

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

They ate grains that couldn’t be sold.” Photos courtesy of Wendy Johnson) The sheep were getting sick from eating too much grain, so Johnson worked to reestablish a natural savanna, a mixed woodland and grassland ecosystem that had once been prevalent on Iowa’s landscape but was destroyed by grazing and row crops. Johnson laughs.

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Acre Farming Farming Pasture 103

UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Another portion of carbon is removed when the grain is harvested. We typically add very little carbon to our fields unless we are adding a lot of manure or compost. Composting humanure was a common practice historically, but now it is often contaminated with pharmaceuticals and heavy metals.

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Compost Acre Processing Crop 69

Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

The birds spend every day outside—where they eat a combination of dry grain, sprouted grain, bugs, and plants—in one paddock, and when the plants there have been sufficiently grazed down, they’re moved to a second one. They’re also working on adding a composting processing site, neighbor approval pending. “We

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Poultry Processing Acre Farming 97