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.

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Food Farming Farming Grain 110

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 144

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

OREI also prioritizes research that takes place on working farms, like this research project that investigated the pest management services a robust bird population can provide orchards. New organic crop and whole-rotation budgeting tools to help new and aspiring organic farmers assess and manage the economic risks of organic transition.

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Food Seeding Crop Poultry 105

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. Kernza® is a deeply rooted perennial grain harvested from intermediate wheatgrass and provided to the breweries by A-Frame Farm in Minnesota. “By In 2016, Rhum J.M

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Beverage Ecology Compost Cultivation 124

CalCAN

JUNE 21, 2023

Nate Gonzalez-Siemens of Fat Uncle Farms and Melissa Sorongon of Piedrasassi are somewhat unusual in the Central Coast and south San Joaquin Valley: they are both small-scale farmers who grow grain as part of their diversified operations. Their neighbors’ operations include vineyards, orchards, grain and vegetables.

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Compost Grain Harvesting Harvest 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

For example, at Eckert’s Farm in Belleville, MO, Chris Eckert has seen extreme freezes killing off parts of his peach orchard. As he transitions toward a farm that is more resilient, he has adopted a no-till system and a much more well-rounded rotation that includes small grains.

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Pasture Crop Orchard Farming 100

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 Pasture Farming Farming 126