Modern Farmer
AUGUST 1, 2024
Investing in Real Estate as a Means to Farm Jamie and Doug Wickler were engineers, but the 2008 crash made them reconsider career paths. They had bought their home in 2013, and they secured their first rental property in 2017 (when real estate was more affordable) with help from family and friends.
Modern Farmer
JANUARY 15, 2024
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.
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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.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
as an account executive in the real estate market for the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited. He fertilizes with compost tea, a mixture he creates of compost and water. He made good money, but rather than putting it into the farm, he splurged. I was young, I was in my 20s.
Daily Yonder
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
The first is farmland loss from haphazard real estate development, the kind that leads to rural gentrification. In an environmental-specific context, that means composting in the backyard and using that compost in the raised beds we built last spring. There are three primary kinds of adversity I focus on in the book.
Agritecture Blog
APRIL 14, 2023
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.
Agritecture Blog
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
Better municipal composting programs could also provide urban farmers with mulch so they don’t have to rely on synthetic fertilizers, which are terrible for the environment. But while rurbanization has enticing benefits, it has some inherent challenges, namely the cost of building farms in cities—whether on rooftops or at ground level.
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