Food Tank

JULY 17, 2024

Table2Farms is working to expand the scale of composting projects across the United States to reduce methane emissions, regenerate soil, and inspire organizations and individuals alike to compost. T he organization believes that the first step in achieving this vision is to support composting projects that already exist.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 23, 2024

Packaged poop can take hundreds of years to break down, even in bags deemed compostable or biodegradable; certifications that are based on commercial composting conditions, not landfills—but US industrial composting facilities don’t accept pet waste. In the US, dog parks are catching on. In the US, dog parks are catching on.

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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. Still, he wants to keep prices low for the local market. Photography by Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 19, 2024

It’s also one with many potential uses ; it can be used as compost, as a means of decontaminating soil, as biofuel, and simply for growing more mushrooms. Stempel currently takes most of the material to a nearby compost facility, but local farms, gardeners, and florists also take a portion. It wasn’t a tough sell. In the U.S.,

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Organic Research and Extension Initiative (OREI) The OREI program awards funds for research conducted on certified organic land to address production, marketing, and socioeconomic constraints on the growth of the organic sector and to elevate the economic and social benefits of organic farming. Managing weeds, diseases, and pests.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 6, 2024

New Seasons Market, a supermarket chain in Portland, Oregon, recently implemented a sophisticated tracking system to determine where food waste was happening at each store. It found that one of the items being thrown away the most was rotisserie chickens, so the store started repurposing unsold ones into hot bars before composting the rest.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The company collects food waste from thousands of generators, including major retailers like Whole Foods Market and Albertson’s, as well as food manufacturers and distributors, hotels, stadiums, universities, and cafeterias across 48 states and Puerto Rico.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Saturdays at Harlem Grown also includes a recipe for vegetable soup and tips to help readers recycle, compost, and tend to gardens of their own. Readers will follow along and count backwards from 20 as the pair weave their way through the market and discover the sheeras, samosas, and more that the vendors have to offer.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 20, 2024

Clothes made from this cotton are compostable and don’t contain harmful microplastics, unlike synthetic fabrics. These sustainable practices produce cotton that is not only better in quality but also environmentally friendly. Local fiber systems are being revitalized, supporting rural economies by providing stable employment opportunities.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Here, they educated other local farmers on how to farm with more regenerative practices such as cutting down on tillage, growing cover crops, and integrating compost. Market research is actually something that you need to pay someone for,” said Byron. Some of the produce offered by Foodshed at their Saturday Market.

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Food Tank

JUNE 14, 2024

Urban agriculture can take on many different forms including, but not limited to, community gardens, urban farms, greenspaces, bioswales, rain gardens, community composting, beekeeping, and aquaculture. Many utilize regenerative growing and composting to maintain healthy crop life cycles from seed to harvest and foster healthy soils.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 7, 2024

This is a story that’s familiar across the world with various farmers having nowhere to turn when the weather and market forces align against a crop. In that same year, just 5 percent of food waste went to composting, despite the fact that nearly all of the waste has the potential to be composted. Why don’t we compost more?

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Alternative Sources of Revenue from Chickens A few other things to think about selling associated with chickens and poultry are; selling well-aged compost to local gardeners, and feathers to crafters. Before you spend one dollar on this venture be prepared to get the word out and market your new business.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 5, 2024

The third measure — and this is easiest — is to compost. is composted. Composting Council has shown. cities now have composting programs. Our household is in rural New York state, and we are lucky to have land with good soil where we can dump our compost. Today only 5 percent of food in the U.S. Hundreds of U.S.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

Like the hog tails, hides, organs, and hooves that aren’t always suitable for compost. Where items like muscle meat and organs have a route to human markets, Farm Hounds looks for trim, miscuts and excess volume. While composting helps keep waste out of landfills, they knew it wasn’t the best use of edible food.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Another interesting part of the food waste discussion at the national level is that municipal composting programs are becoming more common. However, compost doesn’t count toward the SDG food waste reduction goals. Compost, if managed properly through the integration of oxygen, will not create such high levels of methane.

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Food Tank

MARCH 29, 2024

Last year, the city of Chicago launched a composting program that allows residents to drop off food scraps at 15 locations around the city, where they’re collected and turned into compost for soil. When I look out at the state of the food system, I see so much that’s going well. Just take food waste, for example.

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Food Tank

MAY 7, 2024

The nonprofit works closely with local restaurants, which they reach through word of mouth, or by holding events and tabling at farmers’ markets around Cape Cod. The program aims to keep oyster shells out of landfills and create regenerative habitats for the shellfish.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 4, 2024

We have been helping Sprouts Farmers Market to make sure that they have the right partners in each area so that food is distributed equitably,” she says. Careit has been able to fill in some of these gaps of missed pickups by building food donation relationships between larger grocery stores and smaller organizations. “We

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 16, 2024

They’re tools for the meat and dairy industry to market their products. Other companies that use Alexandre as a supplier, whether for ice cream, cheese, or even toddler formula, have used marketing based off of Alexandre’s humanewashing and greenwashing, and reaped the benefits. And then there’s the halo effect.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Huberto markets coffee, vanilla, and even cedro trees for timber. Searching for market in Mexico The scarcity of water is just one of the hurdles facing vanilla production in the La Chinantla region. Huberto Juan Martinez uses organic fertiliser/compost at his plantation. Another significant issue is migration.

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Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Composting Organic materials including agricultural residue such as corn stalks and rice hulls, weeds, manure, ash from cookstoves and kitchen waste, such as peels and eggshells, join to create rich, life-giving compost. The composting process creates an environment for decomposition. How do family farmers restore soil health?

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Food Tank

JUNE 5, 2024

He explains that they reduce the time it takes to compost, lowering greenhouse gas emissions, and they require very little water for breeding. We’ve seen a wide acceptability, when you come up with consumer-friendly, familiar products that are market driven.” icipe’s work also touches on sustainable pest control practices.

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Cropaia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Compost and organic amendments : Regenerative farmers prioritize the use of organic matter, such as compost, manure, and other natural amendments, to enhance soil fertility and microbial activity. By understanding the specific needs of their soil, farmers can tailor their practices accordingly.

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ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2024

Croix, US Virgin Islands, delves into the innovative market diversification strategies that have propelled him to his farming success. In this video, Nate Olive, the owner of Ridge to Reef Farm on St.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 29, 2024

Through a network of volunteers, farmers markets, food banks and grocery stores, Homegrown is channeling excess fruit from homeowners’ trees to food-insecure residents in and around Phoenix. But despite the area’s issues with drought, the city has access to a canal system that provides a ready source of irrigation.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 21, 2024

Right: Soil blocked plant at the farmers market. I also recommend waiting until the seedlings have established roots in their soil blocks before attempting to transport them to market. Soil blocked plant starts make a unique and popular display at the farmers market.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 26, 2023

Even with these limited resources, they’ve been able to convert empty lots and spaces into thriving community assets for job training, food production, composting, youth education, habitat, stormwater management, and healthy food access sites.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Community Farmers Markets (CFM) Serving as an umbrella organization, CFM was established to meet the demand for more efficiently managed, community-based and sustainable farmers’ markets in Atlanta. CFM reports that in 2023, they served more than 65,000 in-person shoppers and over 160 vendors at weekly markets.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 16, 2024

In the summertime, Montclair Community Farms transforms its less-than-10,000-square-foot lot into a space with something for everyone: a garden education program for children, a job training site for teens, and a pop-up produce market for Essex County residents. Some are even ready to harvest. Our zoning is different here.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 12, 2023

With roughly one third of available food going uneaten globally , a strategy centering food loss and solutions such as composting could make a big difference in the US. Read our breakdown of some of the obstacles the carbon credit market faces here. Food loss and waste poses a real challenge to agriculture, food and the climate.

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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 brewery is located on a small but busy farm with apple orchards, market gardens, two greenhouses, an apiary, and a flock of chickens. In 2016, Rhum J.M

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Civil Eats

JUNE 18, 2024

percent of waste is recycled or composted. As a result, the commodity market for plastic film waste is quite small, and even tinier for multi-layer plastic waste, Pan said. which lacks a modern national standard. In a nation where recycling rules may vary county by county, not to mention state by state, just 32.1

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

These strategies can apply to the market gardener or home gardener, and have applications for larger-scale vegetable production. Although no-till implies not tilling at all, many no-till market gardeners still rely on some form of light tillage to create a seed bed or apply copious amounts of compost as a mulch to create a seed bed.

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The Lunatic Farmer

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Then Obamacare raised our premiums another 40 percent overnight, pricing us completely out of the private market. Let's build compost instead of chemicals. Then in a one-two punch, Anthem canceled the high deductible but by that time we were financially well enough to swallow the premium increase. To defy the norm.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 30, 2024

The buoy market, already a multi-billion-dollar industry, continues to expand by 5.5 You buy your buoys at a reasonable price, you have it out there floating your cages for a year, and at the end, we buy it back from you and dry it, grind it ourselves for fertilizer or you could compost them in your own garden.”

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 11, 2024

It was a perfect gig for between school terms—I would help harvest things for the farmers market, pick weeds and occasionally round up a turkey that had escaped its enclosure. Why couldn’t we bring these into town to sell at the farmers market? But, simply put, there was no market for these “weeds.”

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