Farmbrite

JUNE 19, 2023

Starting a Fruit Orchard on Your Farm Growing fruit trees or nut trees on your farm is a great way to be more self-sufficient and a great way to add items to your CSA, use the unwanted fruit to supplement feed for your animals, sell at your local farmers market or for personal use. Fruit trees need lots of sun and space to grow properly.

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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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Orchard Farming Farming Construction 52

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. The vineyards are weeded only using hoes, never herbicides, and fertilized with manure. Boochcraft, United States Boochraft produces kombucha, an alcoholic fermented tea.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

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. To get [your mulch or compost] spread in a timely manner was really quite impossible,” said Gonzales-Siemens. The drill] made a huge difference.

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Grain Farming Farming Orchard 110

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Johnson added trees to grazing land to create silvopastures, enhanced existing windbreaks and planted a micro-orchard with fruit and nut trees. In addition to organic practices including composting and perennial cover crops, he added a silvopasture for his grass-fed cattle. Tucker Gretebeck planting trees on All Season Farm.

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Acre Farming Farming Pasture 107

Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

Orchards, vines and other perennials cultivated as long-term investments have steadily replaced ephemeral crops such as tomatoes and cotton, which are far less costly to sacrifice or replace. She points to wide-scale implementation of anaerobic digesters, which capture methane from sealed manure lagoons to create biogas.

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