Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 6, 2023

I boasted about how indigenous flowers would aid pollinators that suffer from habitat loss, store greenhouse gasses and create a buffer against drought and heavy rains. I knew that the US’s 40 million acres of lawns contribute to greenhouse gas emissions through consistent mowing and drink up to nine billion gallons of water daily.

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Meadow Greenhouse Compost Soil Compaction 117

ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

A study by Cornell University scientists explored both dietary change and agricultural technologies as means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the food-system sector. Related ATTRA resource: Climate Beneficial Practices

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Greenhouse Agriculture Agriculture Compost 40

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 22, 2024

With transportation’s greenhouse gas emissions eliminated, it’s a small leap to assume that urban agriculture is a simple climate solution. Most research on urban agriculture has focused on a single type of urban farming, often high-tech projects, such as aquaponic tanks, rooftop greenhouses or vertical farms.

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Agriculture Agriculture Compost Greenhouse 94

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

percent of its greenhouse gas emissions on food that never gets eaten, as well as an estimated 16 percent of US cropland and 22 percent of its freshwater use. Another interesting part of the food waste discussion at the national level is that municipal composting programs are becoming more common.

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Food Compost Manufacturing Greenhouse 130

Civil Eats

JUNE 5, 2024

Emmert, a horticulturist at the University of Kentucky, was tinkering around with how to build a cheap greenhouse. It lines the sides of greenhouses, blankets fields as “plastic mulch,” covers hoop houses, and winds through farms as irrigation tubes, among other forms. In 1948, E.M. That’s the reason we’re facing such a massive issue.”

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Farming Farming Greenhouse Food 145

Food Tank

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The label will include information on the greenhouse gas emissions released during the production, manufacturing, distribution, consumer use, end-of-life reuse, and recycling of the product.

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Food Manufacturing Greenhouse Distribution 98

Food Tank

DECEMBER 10, 2023

According to research from the United Nations, if food waste were a country, it would be the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases, behind the United States and China. And because composting is typically more expensive than conventional disposal methods, it forces eaters and businesses to think twice about letting food go to waste.

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Food Compost Technology Greenhouse 128

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

For example, researchers utilize the long-term farming systems trials at USDA’s Agricultural Research Service station in Beltsville, MD , to address nutrients, weeds, soil health, greenhouse gas mitigation, and net economic returns in organic field crop rotations.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

According to a study published in the Journal of Cleaner Production and Beverages , the production of alcoholic beverages can contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, land degradation, and water depletion. The brewery is located on a small but busy farm with apple orchards, market gardens, two greenhouses, an apiary, and a flock of chickens.

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Beverage Ecology Compost Cultivation 125

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 5, 2024

This is just wonderful for greenhouse gas emissions. The third measure — and this is easiest — is to compost. is composted. Composting Council has shown. cities now have composting programs. Our household is in rural New York state, and we are lucky to have land with good soil where we can dump our compost.

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Food Compost Greenhouse Distribution 85

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

Agriculture contributes at least 11 percent of US greenhouse gas emissions , and meat is the biggest contributor among foods. Like the hog tails, hides, organs, and hooves that aren’t always suitable for compost. While composting helps keep waste out of landfills, they knew it wasn’t the best use of edible food.

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Food Farming Farming Compost 109

Food Tank

JUNE 5, 2024

He explains that they reduce the time it takes to compost, lowering greenhouse gas emissions, and they require very little water for breeding. Insects can help decrease the number of inputs typically expected in food production, Tonga says.

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Technology Food Production Compost 111

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 12, 2023

COPs are historically where key climate decisions are made, such as the Kyoto Protocol, in which signing parties agreed to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, and the Paris Agreement, which committed parties to the goal of keeping warming to 1.5 Also in attendance are policymakers, NGOs, lobbyists, scientists and more. degrees Celsius.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse 129

Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 30, 2024

If you have loads of old plastic pots or seed starter trays you’re not using, you may also be able to return some to your local greenhouse. Straw bales get bonus points because they can be composted after the growing season for future use as a natural fertilizer.” They act as both the container and as a growing medium.

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Straw Compost Seeding Farming 85

Food Tank

MARCH 2, 2024

The International Wineries for Climate Action (IWCA) helps producers with the implement practices to measure and decrease greenhouse gas emissions. To speed up the shift towards a climate-friendly wine industry, IWCA raises awareness about cutting greenhouse gasses in viticulture and hosts workshops to share emission reduction strategies.

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Food Greenhouse Fertilizer Production 106

Food Tank

APRIL 4, 2024

The Institute has three seed banks, a greenhouse, ceremonial women’s house, restored adobe, and more. These include farming and gardening, composting, animal husbandry and processing, adobe construction, mud plastering, pottery, and weaving.

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Seeding Food Construction Compost 112

ATTRA

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Now, Hardin wants to use the knowledge he’s gained to tackle some big challenges across the state by using biochar to clean up the Illinois River watershed, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and help farmers improve the quality of their soil through his innovative initiative called the Carbon Chicken Project.

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Poultry Greenhouse Yield Manure 93

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 26, 2023

OUAIP promotes a variety of practices such as community gardens, outdoor vertical production, greenhouses, indoor farms, hydroponic facilities, and more. “In the Chicago area, we have seen major growth of urban agriculture projects, farms, organizations, and incubators.

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Farming Farming Ruralism Compost 75

Cropaia

MAY 25, 2024

Sustainability Benefits Biochar contributes to environmental sustainability in several key ways, and is a key component of regenerative agriculture: Carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions reduction Biochar is highly effective at sequestering carbon due to its stable nature.

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Compost Fertilizer Crop Yield Nutrient Pollution 67

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

All told, annual greenhouse gases released from plastic production, landfilling, and incineration total 850 million tons , or 4.5 According to FAO, plastic films such as black mulch and greenhouse covers account for the bulk of annual global use, at more than 8 million tons. percent of global emissions.

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Agriculture Agriculture Supply Chain Production 145

Civil Eats

AUGUST 28, 2023

Methane gas digesters are used by dairy farms to convert manure into energy and reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The limited data suggest that food packaging and compostable serviceware may be the largest contributors of PFAS in food waste, though fish and meat are also significant contributors, according to the EPA.

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Manure Food Compost Fertilizer 83

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Jessica Segale talks about her work as Happy Goat’s greenhouse manager and produce grown on their regenerative farm in the Sierra Nevada foothill community of Mariposa, California. Happy Goat also helps recycle food waste from local school cafeterias, using it to create compost for small school gardens and its farm.

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Acre Farming Farming Compost 145

ATTRA

JANUARY 2, 2024

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. If compost is used as a soil amendment, using vegetation-based compost instead of composted animal manure can reduce the possibility of salt build-up in the soil.

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Compost Fertilizer Crop Cash Crop 52

Modern Farmer

MARCH 21, 2024

Left: A young soil blocked collard seedling in the Blue Ridge Farm greenhouse. At the end of the day, the important part is that your soil mix is compactable but still possesses good drainage, which is why many folks recommend a blend that includes finely sifted compost (or potting soil) and coconut coir.

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Compost Farming Farming Seeding 120

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Invisible’ Waste: For Restaurants, Composting Food Scraps Is Just the Beginning Cooking, refrigeration, air conditioning, water use, and packaging contribute to greenhouse gas emissions too. Some workers are taking matters into their own hands. These restaurants try to tackle them all.

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Farming Farming Food Compost 136

CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

Farming is also an important contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Side by side with that loss of diversity was a long growth in greenhouse gas emissions that has only recently begun to be addressed. public, across party lines, is concerned about the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food production.

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Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Food 52

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 16, 2024

It’s unlikely, for example, that when a consumer sees one of these labels on Alexandre milk products in a Whole Foods Market, they imagine a field of dead cows being used as compost, or decaying cow corpses dangling into waterways, likely violating state water quality laws. Yet that’s exactly what Farm Forward’s investigation found.

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Farming Farming Production Animal Agriculture 127

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

percent of greenhouse gas emissions and 22 percent of all freshwater use in the US. Compost whatever you cannot eat.” That’s 235 million tons of meals that went uneaten, despite the fact that one in eight Americans is food insecure. And it’s not just the food that goes to waste; that year, uneaten food accounted for 6.1

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Food Supply Chain Production Beverage 126

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

Backyard farms may need infrastructure for things ranging from drip lines and irrigation systems to hoop houses or greenhouses. It had contracts in place, and it would pay homeowners for city water use by comparing bills to previous years. But she needed a stronger proposal than just her farm could support.

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Real Estate Farming Farming Acre 117

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

food supply—results in “annual greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those of 42 coal-fired power plants,” according to a report released by the EPA in November 2021. Every year, about 130 billion meals, or $408 billion in food, are thrown away in the U.S., according to Feeding America. All of this food waste—35 percent of the U.S.

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Food Technology Production Compost 143

Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2024

The accumulation of carbon in the soil effectively slows the carbon cycle, causing carbon to linger in the ground for a longer period of time rather than quickly releasing into the atmosphere, where it takes the form of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas driving climate change. He mostly grows salad greens across 3 acres of farmland.

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Farming Farming Crop Agriculture 144

Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

This helped them buy their first cache of shared equipment: a tiller, a harrow, a manure spreader, a trailer to move equipment between farms, and a log splitter for heating greenhouses with wood. To get [your mulch or compost] spread in a timely manner was really quite impossible,” said Gonzales-Siemens.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 29, 2023

This includes: Lawn and plant care Raised garden beds and composters Ponds and its accessories Tools for gardening and landscaping Watering and irrigation systems Seeds and bulbs Live plants Planters and hanging baskets Garden fencing And even whole Greenhouses!

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Production Compost Greenhouse Manufacturing 98

The Gleaning Project of South Central PA

MAY 16, 2022

8% of all greenhouse gas emissions each year are due to food loss and waste! We waste 10% of our US energy budget to transport food each year and 40% of it will go directly to landfills that directly contribute to a growing waste issue as well as increasing greenhouse gas emissions. What is Food Waste?

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Food Greenhouse Compost Ecology 52

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Customers now include nearby restaurants, and with business booming, he’s put a 10-by-20-foot greenhouse in the backyard and hopes to upgrade to a larger vertical farming structure in the near future. With arable land at a premium— urban sprawl is a growing threat to the farming region—“I’m lucky to have a big yard,” says Mateo.

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Cultivation Crop Real Estate Food 119

Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

The choice to compare greenhouse gas intensity of soil-based urban agriculture systems with conventional farming systems brings up an inherently unfair comparison.

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Agroecology Yield Food Acre 97