Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

In this sense, California Plowshares is a return to the kind of rural sharing economies that once arose naturally between farmers in tight-knit communities but have become much less common in recent years. To get [your mulch or compost] spread in a timely manner was really quite impossible,” said Gonzales-Siemens.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

The research from the University of Michigan-led study seems to show that fruit and vegetables grown in urban ag have a carbon footprint six times larger than that of “conventionally grown” food (meaning, on rural farmland). I see that shift happening already on farms both urban and rural, big and small.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county. In the rural Hecks Grove communityless than a mile from where Robert E. He fertilizes with compost tea, a mixture he creates of compost and water.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 113

ATTRA

APRIL 30, 2024

The liquid portion of the digestate is staged to be used as a nutrient source for the farm’s crop fields and compost piles. In addition, the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) is a grant program administered through USDA’s Rural Development office.

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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 98

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 Farming Farming 117

Food Tank

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Start composting: via NRDC : Food waste in the U.S. emits greenhouse gas equal to that of 50 million gas-powered cars. Composting helps to fight this waste while also restoring soil health and reducing reliance on synthetic fertilizers. Climate-resilient rural communities. Read more HERE.

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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

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

NSAC welcomed the pragmatic Senate bill, the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024 (RPFSA) , as an important step toward completing a bipartisan farm bill reauthorization this year. However, NSAC is disheartened to see no reference to establishing composting as a national practice standard in the RPFSA.

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Ruralism Food Farming Farming 111

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 79

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

With instructions on how to choose the heartiest cultivars, “harden” them for winter, and outfit a greenhouse to keep vegetables just warm enough without using massive amounts of energy, The Winter Market Gardener makes a strong case for winter growing. The book exceeded my expectations.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 3, 2024

Fighting climate change Greenhouse gas emissions, which result from high levels of atmospheric carbon, are a critical cause of climate change. Photo credit: Jess Giacobbe) A nybody who is interested—urban, suburban or rural gardeners and farmers or any land stewards—can participate in Carbon Sponge.

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Science Ruralism Ecology Farming 104

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In comparison to the enormous opportunity that sustainable and organic agriculture represents for farmers and rural communities, federal investment in related research, education, and extension has been minuscule. Other posts explore how the next farm bill can tackle issues in regional market development, crop insurance access, and more.

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Farming Farming Agriculture Agriculture 115

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The full extent of regional agricultural damages is unknown, but “many [farms] have had 50 to 100 percent of their crops wiped out, infrastructure destroyed, and lots of topsoil loss and soil contamination from the flooding,” said Aaron Johnson, co-director of policy at the Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA ( RAFI).

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