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How the Next Generation of Farmers is Getting Creative with Land Access

Modern Farmer

Amy Scanes-Wolfe harvesting sunflowers at Niwot Homestead. Investing in Real Estate as a Means to Farm Jamie and Doug Wickler were engineers, but the 2008 crash made them reconsider career paths. When the Wicklers bought their properties in 2017-2020, real estate was significantly cheaper.

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Rurbanization: It's Time To Make Cities More Rural

Agritecture Blog

CONTENT SOURCED FROM WIRED November 23, 2022 Jennifer Bousselot has had one hell of a summer harvest. On a commercial farm, crops are usually grown one at a time and tended with specialized equipment—you can’t plant wheat and carrots in the same field because they’re harvested in totally different ways.

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Congress Puts Federal Support for Urban Farming on the Chopping Block

Civil Eats

At the top of a gradual slope, Falani Spivey leaned on a shovel as she pointed to several rows of malagueta and Carolina reaper peppers and described the salad greens she planned to plant for fall harvesting. That project is being funded by a second award through the OAIUP’s composting grant program.

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What It Takes to Develop a Successful AgriHood

Agritecture Blog

Agrihoods—or neighborhoods centered around agriculture—have continued to pop up around the country, with one of the latest being Indigo by Houston-based real estate development company Meristem Communities. Garrett: Meristem Communities is a Houston-based real estate development company that was established in 2021.

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Cultivating Profits in a Compact Crop

Modern Farmer

Given the cost of Long Island real estate, the space efficiency is “one of the great benefits of [farming] microgreens,” says DiLillo. He dropped single-use clamshell boxes for a biodegradable and compostable, plant-based alternative, and he even closed his health food store accounts, which require water-resistant adhesive labels.