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.
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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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.
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
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.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
MAY 10, 2024
However, NSAC is disheartened to see no reference to establishing composting as a national practice standard in the RPFSA. On-farm composting is foundational to many operations’ approach to climate mitigation and broader operational sustainability.
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