Compost Harvesting Orchard 
Modern Farmer
MARCH 6, 2025
Here, growers are making fresh kokoleka, or chocolate in lelo Hawaii (Hawaiian language), through mindful agricultural practices: creating their own soil and compost, contracting with locals, and using organic fertilizer. From seed to orchard, the cacao growing process can take up to two years.
Modern Farmer
MARCH 29, 2024
Across the Phoenix metro area, citrus trees sag under the weight of more produce than homeowners can harvest and use. Combined with copious sunlight and compostable waste, this system creates a “goldmine of opportunity” that Chevallier believes Homegrown can leverage to transform the area into a hub of local food production.
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Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Isaiah White harvests kale at his familys fifth-generation farm in Warren County, where the U.S. Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s. Patrick Browns nephew Justice White pauses while harvesting organic purple kale. Across the road, peacocks shriek.
Civil Eats
JANUARY 8, 2024
Prior to that, they had all either harvested by hand, an intensely laborious process, or hired someone with a combine. Next, they purchased a no-drill seeder together, and it allowed them to plant rows of grain directly into orchards and pastures without tilling, a practice known to benefit the soil. The drill] made a huge difference.
CalCAN
JUNE 21, 2023
Their neighbors’ operations include vineyards, orchards, grain and vegetables. The collective currently shares two mid-sized combine harvesters, one mini-combine harvester, a compost spreader, two seed cleaners, a berm flamer, a no-till drill, and a foliar spray trailer.
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 for a new beer initiative.
Caff
OCTOBER 22, 2024
When they purchased the farm over 30 years ago it was an unproductive almond orchard and since then they have pulled the almonds out and utilized the sloped landscape to construct swales, establish a vineyard, and plant a wide variety of fruit trees which provide shelter while their flock of ducks grazes.
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