Caff

MAY 2, 2024

On April 10th, Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) hosted a field day at Heartwood Farms in Linden, CA with farmers Franz Eilers and Emma Wade to discuss all things compost and pest management on their biologically-integrated walnut and cherry orchards. The compost created from ground-up walnut prunings and cover crop mowings.

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Agriculture for Life

JUNE 30, 2020

Unlike many of my composting experiments, this is a traditional compost pile of alternating layers of carboniferous and nitrogenous materials. This simple compost pile can be set up anywhere in about an hour using local materials. Come back a few months later and harvest your compost! Get that nitrogen in there!

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Organic fertilizers such as manure, compost , and other organic amendments are valuable sources of nitrogen. However, unlike synthetic fertilizers that provide readily available nitrogen, the nitrogen in organic fertilizers is released gradually through biological processes.

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Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 24, 2023

This process constructs a healthy and wider root system for the plant, thus making it stronger. Water absorption and its utilisation is a major advantage of this process as well, which benefits the biotone fertiliser. Subsequently, a safe step for this fermentation is to use a windrow type for composting the biological waste.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 19, 2024

To be thorough and have the best growing season, it's a good idea to take all this into account during the crop planning process. Compost: Compost improves and adds nourishment to the soil. Turning : Regularly turn the compost pile to ensure nutrients are evenly distributed and broken down.

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Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 29, 2023

This process constructs a healthy and wider root system for the plant, thus making it stronger. Water absorption and its utilisation is a major advantage of this process as well, which benefits the biotone fertiliser. Subsequently, a safe step for this fermentation is to use a windrow type for composting the biological waste.

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Organic mushroom farming involves growing mushrooms using organic substrates like composted manure, straw, or sawdust. The process emphasizes natural growing conditions to ensure healthy,… Read More » Complete Practical Guide on Organic Mushroom Farming

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Byproducts of processed foods get tossed out on the manufacturing line. 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. It happens everywhere in our food system.

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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 Tank

MAY 7, 2024

“By putting the shells back in the water where there is already an oyster population, so they are spawning, it is a regenerative process. They can have a home, a place to attach to,” Smith explains. Similar efforts in Chesapeake Bay show how supporting oyster habitats contributes to oyster population growth and healthier waters.

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Food Tank

MARCH 29, 2024

It’s a gradual process—sometimes it can feel slow, as many of us probably know!—that 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. Just take food waste, for example.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 6, 2023

With greater plant diversity and organic matter, networks of microbes can create ample water and airflow at different depths in the process. To build sustainable soil structure with plenty of bacteria, fungi and protozoa, we made compost by processing kitchen scraps in a tumbler. The efforts have already been worth it, though.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 6, 2024

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. In the Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment, signatories increased the percentage of unsold food that was composted by 28 percent and donated by 20 percent. “You

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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. Drop Bear takes care of some of their energy needs with solar panels and uses excess heat generated during the brewing process to warm their buildings.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 17, 2023

“I think about food a lot because I love to eat and value the effort and beauty of the growing process. Six years later, Soil Cycle has gone from Lewis picking up scraps from a few clients to six bikers transporting upwards of 60,000 pounds of compost per year. Biochar and NCAT’s SIFT Farm Episode 286. What is Biochar?

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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.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 7, 2024

Otherwise edible grub goes uneaten at every stage of the food production process. 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? But it’s far more complex than that.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 4, 2024

If you have them on a carbonaceous diaper (I describe this in detail in the book) they won’t smell and their manure will turn into wonderful compost for your house plants. That would certainly use all the compost from all the chickens in all the apartments eating all the food scraps on site. And you should have house plants.

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Cropaia

MAY 25, 2024

This process converts biomass into biochar while capturing carbon that would otherwise be released as carbon dioxide (CO2) during decomposition. However, the pyrolysis process transforms the organic material into biochar, locking the carbon within its structure and preventing its release.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

Like the hog tails, hides, organs, and hooves that aren’t always suitable for compost. “Depending on how strict the USDA inspector is, it can require the farm and the processing facility to update their HACCP plan just to capture something for us.” Farm Hounds jerky.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 7, 2023

Although the larger agency has historically focused on serving large-scale farmers in rural areas, it has granted more than $50 million since 2020 to build school and community gardens in Hawaii, expand residential composting in Fort Worth, Texas, and add hydroponic production to an urban farm in Dubuque, Iowa, among dozens of other projects.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 5, 2024

Rating: / 5 Lomi Bloom composter Pela, a British Columbian company, claims its popular Lomi home composters can reduce a household’s food waste by 80 percent. The Lomi Bloom’s a countertop composter that uses heat and grinders to turn food waste into compost quickly and, supposedly, without too much stink.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

” He eventually bought a mill from a grain farmer who went out of business, but finding the other equipment necessary for both farming and processing grain was an ongoing struggle. Prior to that, they had all either harvested by hand, an intensely laborious process, or hired someone with a combine.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Of the above information, the food producer, manufacturer, or retailer will provide the cradle-to-gate information, from the growing of the food to its arrival at the retail establishment.

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Plants welcome me in their leafy grace, As part of a process, essential to embrace. I confess to being a recovering engineer, but this is a useful way to conceptualize an invisible process that’s happening in crop fields and in pastures. The same process is happening everywhere that plants grow. Did you spot the missing arrow?

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The projects funded in this announcement include a California facility to process manure from dairy cows by using vermifilitering techniques and expansion of a biosolid fertilizer composter in Georgia.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 18, 2024

A Rabbit Recycling processing center, where materials are hand-sorted. percent of waste is recycled or composted. Policy Solutions In addition to innovation and investment in sorting and processing technologies, Pan said policy changes are needed to turn the tide on the plastic waste crisis. 54) as an example.

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Food Tank

APRIL 4, 2024

These include farming and gardening, composting, animal husbandry and processing, adobe construction, mud plastering, pottery, and weaving. “As It offers classes on how to lead healthy and sustainable lifestyles and facilitates seed saving and other cultural practices.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Developed by One Step Closer (OSC), the OSC Packaging Collaborative is working to remove petroleum-based plastics through the development and scaling of compostable and renewable alternatives. And Innovation in Supply Chain Waste Reduction focuses on waste reduction in the manufacturing or delivery process.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 30, 2024

Future posts will explore how the next farm bill can tackle issues in meat processing, crop insurance, organic and sustainable agriculture research, and more. Urban farmers and community garden networks cultivate, process, and distribute food utilizing micro-scale and innovative production techniques.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 28, 2023

Cabot not only recycles its processing waste at the farm, but it also purchases the bulk of the energy the co-digester produces through renewable energy credits, buying enough electricity to power its entire butter-processing operation. The heat from the digestion process produces a pathogen-free fiber.

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Food Tank

JULY 2, 2024

Barefoot Biodynamics: How Cows, Compost, and Community Help Us Understand Rudolf Steiner’s Agriculture Course by Jeff Poppen In Barefoot Biodynamics , Jeff Poppen integrates stories from his time in rural Tennessee in his guide to biodynamic principles and practices.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 21, 2024

The idea of eliminating this form of waste was appealing to me, as was the additional promise of raising healthier plants in the process. Soil blocking is also gaining in popularity because it promotes a healthier root system by utilizing a process known as “air pruning.” What is soil blocking?

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Modern Farmer

JULY 18, 2024

If the answer is no, it’s better saved for the compost bin. If you want to be a nonprofit to be protected under legislation such as the Good Samaritan Food Donation Act , but the process is onerous for a group your size, you could see if a sponsorship would help. Would you choose that item? You’re in luck.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 5, 2024

Mountain ranges trap emissions from highway traffic, locomotives, municipal composting facilities, tractors, and burning. The San Joaquin Valley Air District is in the midst of a process to evaluate potential additions to the region’s Conservation Management Practices rule. For example, PM2.5 Reducing secondary PM2.5

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CalCAN

JUNE 21, 2023

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. These tools help their operations do tasks like harvest crops, apply compost, manage weeds, clean grain, plant cover crops, and apply compost tea.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Our major goal is to support the ecosystem, heal nature, and be more attuned with nature’s processes,” says Bosch, who farms using organic and regenerative agricultural practices. “As Straw bales get bonus points because they can be composted after the growing season for future use as a natural fertilizer.”

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