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

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. Continued and strengthened support for both OREI and ORG is crucial.

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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 124

Cropaia

MAY 25, 2024

This process converts biomass into biochar while capturing carbon that would otherwise be released as carbon dioxide (CO2) during decomposition. However, the pyrolysis process transforms the organic material into biochar, locking the carbon within its structure and preventing its release.

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Compost Fertilizer Crop Yield Nutrient Pollution 81

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

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 111

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. Its like full circle.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Biochar is created by heating biomass, such as forest waste or animal manure, in a low-oxygen environment—a process known as pyrolysis. The second is an abundance of forest and sawmill waste, which releases greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere if left to decompose.

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Poultry Greenhouse Yield Manure 93

Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Our major goal is to support the ecosystem, heal nature, and be more attuned with nature’s processes,” says Bosch, who farms using organic and regenerative agricultural practices. “As 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.

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Straw Compost Seeding Farming 85

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 heat from the digestion process produces a pathogen-free fiber. That figure includes food losses during farming, processing, distribution, retail operations, and consumption (e.g.,

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Manure Food Compost Fertilizer 83

Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

” He eventually bought a mill from a grain farmer who went out of business, but finding the other equipment necessary for both farming and processing grain was an ongoing struggle. Prior to that, they had all either harvested by hand, an intensely laborious process, or hired someone with a combine.

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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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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

These ingredients are endlessly diverse, including spent grains from beer production, ripe fruit that is too small for supermarket standards and cacao pulp from the process of making chocolate bars, but they share a similar origin story. percent of greenhouse gas emissions and 22 percent of all freshwater use in the US.

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Food Supply Chain Production Beverage 126

Modern Farmer

MARCH 21, 2024

The idea of eliminating this form of waste was appealing to me, as was the additional promise of raising healthier plants in the process. Soil blocking is also gaining in popularity because it promotes a healthier root system by utilizing a process known as “air pruning.” What is soil blocking?

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Compost Farming Farming Seeding 120

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

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

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The UEI is part of larger efforts to streamline federal grant making processes. The UEI is assigned by SAM as part of the registration process and replaces the DUNS number. Developing SHMS that include applying carbon amendments such as compost or biochar with evaluations of the effects on soil carbon and soil health.

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Farming Farming Forestry Technology 96

ATTRA

APRIL 30, 2024

The process of anaerobic digestion for production of natural gas is straightforward. The methane gas given off from the microbes in this process rises to the top of the tank to an outlet tube where it can be collected and used as a fuel source for heat or electric production.

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Farming Farming Manure Ruralism 52

Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

At the same time, diets are becoming increasingly ultra-processed at the expense of nutritious whole foods. Ultra-processed foods currently make up 57% of our diets. Early warnings of the potentially damaging effects of industrial agriculture and food processing technologies upon planetary and human health provoked a vehement backlash.

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Food Seeding Farming Farming 98

CalCAN

MAY 17, 2023

Last Friday Governor Newsom’s office released the May Revise, a part of the annual state budget process which updates the governor’s economic and revenue outlook. With the state facing significant economic uncertainty and a worsening deficit now projected at $31.5

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Agriculture Agriculture Manure Compost 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

While farmers like Fischer are avid proponents of the need to address greenhouse gas emissions, others may be less certain about that need. She also employs cover crops, composting, and reduced tillage. Not only does his cattle system capture carbon, but he also improves water infiltration and water holding capacity in his soils.

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Pasture Crop Orchard Farming 111

Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

Dairy and livestock account for more than half of California’s production of the powerful greenhouse gas (GHG), one that traps 84 times more heat than carbon dioxide. And because the fresh fluid is costly to transport, dairy processing is highly regional, says Sumner. The field is further ingrained in the local and state economy.

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Farming Farming Manure Agriculture 97

Food Tank

DECEMBER 10, 2023

We’ll take a big step forward today when the UN Food and Agriculture Organization releases its Global Roadmap, the first report in a multi-year process to outline a crystal-clear path for investors and policymakers to step up and translate conversations into action. Start composting: via NRDC : Food waste in the U.S.

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Food Finance Agriculture Agriculture 59

RR2CS

JANUARY 13, 2022

They grow a wide range of field and greenhouse vegetables and herbs, and sell their organic produce to customers through a summer and fall Farm Share program , and as well, at Edmonton’s Strathcona Farmer’s Market. With deep mulching, they lay down a 4-inch thick, deep layer of compost over the surface of the oil.

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Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 7, 2024

Globally, according to a 2022 United Nations report, food loss and waste account for 7 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Globally, according to a 2022 United Nations report, food loss and waste account for 7 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Why don’t we compost more?

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Food Compost Distribution Greenhouse 99

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Even before that food gets to the dump, its production—involving fossil fuel–based fertilizers and pesticides, nitrous oxide released in fields, and energy use— results in annual greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to that of 42 coal-fired power plants.

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Food Compost Pesticide Greenhouse 137

Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

Fashion contributes around 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, second only to big oil. Companies often blend natural with plastic fibers, adding dyes and finishes, and blends are particularly hard to recycle because the components require different processes. Another big factor is end of life. Photo courtesy of Spiber Inc.)

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 7, 2024

They are using composting systems and anaerobic digesters to turn waste into fertilizer for the next planting. And because of the distance that wasted food has traveled, wasted food is estimated to account for nearly 10 percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions. For every bite of food, another bite has been lost along the way.

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Technology Food Farming Farming 87

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

They end up in the landfill where they decompose releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. We get it directly from the farm after some processing and re-packing. If, for example, an apple gets bruised in produce, its taken to the deli where it is pressed into juice, with the pulp repurposed for muffins and its core composted.

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Food Production Marketing Compost 67

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

They help farmers and ranchers keep drinking water clean for our urban and rural communities, build soil resilience and limit the impacts of severe drought and flooding, provide healthy habitats for wildlife, mitigate agriculture’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and support farm operations that are productive and sustainable long-term.

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Ruralism Food Farming Farming 111

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

While many of these priorities – such as agricultural climate adaptation and mitigation, MMRV of greenhouse gas emissions, and public cultivar development – are important additions to improve AFRI’s focus on agroecological research, without increased funding, AFRI will be limited in its ability to address these new priority areas.

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Farming Farming Agriculture Agriculture 115

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Its unclear exactly how that process is linked to whats happening at USDA, but farm groups across the country report that the agency has stopped their disbursements and has been silent about when the pause might end. To reach small vegetable, livestock, and larger row-crop farms across the state, they hired five people.

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