ATTRA

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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. With a bigger staff and a new executive director, they also educate the community, create quality natural fertilizers, and take compost to a new level, all while remaining human-powered.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

DECEMBER 13, 2024

ICRISAT's solar-powered water hyacinth harvester, designed and fabricated in-house by a team of scientists received its first grant, boosting its ability to be used with ease by rural farming communities The solar-powered equipment offers substantial benefits, including 5060% savings in cost, time, and labour, while prioritising using clean energy.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 20, 2024

Local fiber systems are being revitalized, supporting rural economies by providing stable employment opportunities. Clothes made from this cotton are compostable and don’t contain harmful microplastics, unlike synthetic fabrics. Brands and designers play a big role in promoting these sustainable practices. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Organic Farming Research

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Up on a ridge in rural Maine, Jennifer Barrientos runs Kennebec Valley Farm. She is certified organic and uses no till and biodynamic methods to grow her produce. The post Farmer-Led Trials Program Spotlight: Kennebec Valley Farm appeared first on Organic Farming Research Foundation.

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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.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Earlier this summer, NSAC and 140 other organizations, farms, and food businesses delivered a letter to Congressional Appropriators requesting them to maintain funding for the office to help sustain its impacts across urban, suburban, and rural communities.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Brooks Lamb: I grew up on a small farm in rural Tennessee. I’ve gone on far too long in this response, but I’ll close by saying: I understand the challenges of rural communities and small and midsized farming because I’ve lived them.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2024

In rural Mariposa County, where many large, historic ranches have been replaced by smaller residential parcels that can easily get overgrown, Happy Goat provides help. Happy Goat also helps recycle food waste from local school cafeterias, using it to create compost for small school gardens and its farm.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 2, 2024

Salts from added compost, manure, or fertilizers can build up in the rain-free environment of a tunnel and accumulate near the soil surface, affecting crop growth. If compost is used as a soil amendment, using vegetation-based compost instead of composted animal manure can reduce the possibility of salt build-up in the soil.

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RR2CS

DECEMBER 1, 2022

13:34 – Why should you co-compost biochar with other organics? The post EP54 Biochar appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions. The post EP54 Biochar appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions. 6:21 – What is biochar and how does it benefit the soil? 7:38 – How is biochar used?

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Instead of throwing garden refuse away or composting it, one could instead chop it up and drop it as mulch back into the garden. Mulberry ( Morus sp.) is also highly useful for this system of “cut and carry” but does not fix nitrogen like its leguminous counterparts. Mulberry, however, grows like a weed and is highly nutritious.

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The Farmers Daughter USA

JUNE 12, 2023

Researchers have developed innovative technologies to extract and refine the cellulose found in corn residue, which can then be used to create a range of biodegradable and compostable plastic products. This diversification of income sources supports rural economies and helps farmers maintain their livelihoods.

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The Lunatic Farmer

MARCH 19, 2021

A researcher there "packed a thin layer of microbial-rich soil from rural areas into rugs and placed them in the entryways of six homes. Certainly soil enriched with compost would be the ultimate source. Folks, here is a plea for an entrepreneur out there to develop a business putting together compost-soil entry mats for doorways.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Many have zero rural experience, connections, or history. We need more people in rural America to make a critical mass that will keep the livestock, equipment, and feed suppliers in business. This new generation of homesteaders is a shot in the arm for rural communities. These newcomers need a why.

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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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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county. In the rural Hecks Grove communityless than a mile from where Robert E. He fertilizes with compost tea, a mixture he creates of compost and water.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Investing in organic research provides farmers, both certified organic and non-certified, with innovative solutions and practical tools that enhance profitability, mitigate financial and ecological risks, and foster economic growth and social well-being in rural communities. Positive signs are on the horizon.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In addition to organic practices including composting and perennial cover crops, he added a silvopasture for his grass-fed cattle. Crombie is optimistic that agroforestry will go a long way in restoring land but also rural communities. It’s an exciting opportunity to revive our rural communities.”

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ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2024

This video was produced by the National Center for Appropriate Technology through the ATTRA Sustainable Agriculture program, under a cooperative agreement with USDA Rural Development. Croix, US Virgin Islands, delves into the innovative market diversification strategies that have propelled him to his farming success.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

In this sense, California Plowshares is a return to the kind of rural sharing economies that once arose naturally between farmers in tight-knit communities but have become much less common in recent years. To get [your mulch or compost] spread in a timely manner was really quite impossible,” said Gonzales-Siemens.

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Food Tank

JULY 7, 2023

Plus, the City recently rolled out its first borough-wide organics collection program and expanded composting in NYC schools and older adult centers. The Milan Urban Food Policy Pact helps unite city leaders to transform their food systems, build urban-rural connections, and fight the climate crisis.

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ATTRA

APRIL 8, 2024

This video was also produced by the National Center for Appropriate Technology through the ATTRA Sustainable Agriculture program, under a cooperative agreement with USDA Rural Development. Explore the incredible potential of mushrooms and discover additional streams of income that mushroom production can offer!

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Civil Eats

JUNE 18, 2024

percent of waste is recycled or composted. Recyclops’ business is now split between residential collection programs, mostly focused in rural areas, and enterprise-level solutions that reach most major metro areas. which lacks a modern national standard. “It also invites producers to the table to figure out how to manage that.”

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ATTRA

APRIL 30, 2024

The liquid portion of the digestate is staged to be used as a nutrient source for the farm’s crop fields and compost piles. In addition, the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) is a grant program administered through USDA’s Rural Development office.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

These practices are diverse and can include growing efficiently in microlots or inside warehouses, food waste reduction strategies, and community composting. OUAIP implements strategies to ensure their success while fostering community food security through networks of growers, partners, and community members.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

The research from the University of Michigan-led study seems to show that fruit and vegetables grown in urban ag have a carbon footprint six times larger than that of “conventionally grown” food (meaning, on rural farmland). I see that shift happening already on farms both urban and rural, big and small.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 12, 2023

“If only we could provide the opportunity and the access for Indigenous people—and I’m speaking about rural Indigenous communities on reservations. Recently, they worked with a Navajo farmer to build a bioreactor to generate biologically complete compost that will help heal the soil and improve yields.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 26, 2023

4327 Senate bill link ### About the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition is a grassroots alliance that advocates for federal policy reform supporting the long-term social, economic, and environmental sustainability of agriculture, natural resources, and rural communities.

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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

JANUARY 15, 2024

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. And with weekly deliveries contained in a 20-mile radius, his transport footprint is super light, he notes.

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ATTRA

MARCH 12, 2024

farmers, we take pride in growing produce that feeds diverse cuisines, and it’s rewarding to see previously composted plant matter being sold and consumed. Although cutting leaves may slow fruit production, it’s often a necessary part of plant pruning. Other leaves from these vegetables are edible but will not taste very good.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

But it’s generated some pretty negative outcomes, including widespread degradation of land, water, and ecosystems, leaving rural communities gutted and left to the tumbleweeds. I sit on the garden porch and reflect on the various practices I have incorporated here. Diversity of food crops and flowering annuals. Legume and grass covers.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 10, 2024

And while the store currently offers delivery throughout the city and the shipping of non-perishables nationwide, he’s currently working to launch the shipping of bulk items nationwide as well, using compostable, biodegradable packaging. “I As this movement took off, the people who started these stores were ordinary citizens.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

With its abundant sunshine, I assumed lots of rural folks would be investing in solar panels to make up for the rolling blackouts. Like chemical fertilizer instead of compost. I spent a couple of days at a permaculture farm in East London where a guy built a gasification unit to run a generator. But the countryside is full of biomass.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

In addition, it included increased funds for the Rural Energy for America Program. It now expands the list of practices to include compost and biochar applications, agroforestry and other perennial production systems, and ecologically based nutrient and pest management strategies like organic fertility approaches.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

She also employs cover crops, composting, and reduced tillage. At Fifth Crow Farm, she has obtained NRCS funding to plant native hedgerows which she intends, “to provide habitat and travel corridors for beneficial insects and pollinators.”

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Caff

JUNE 6, 2023

Together, last spring we visited both rural and urban farms like Kern Family Farm in the Sierra Foothills, and Red H Farm and Singing Frogs Farm in the North Bay.

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