Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 30, 2024

You can get paint markers, too, to keep things less messy with the kids,” says Nicole Baker, a biologist with The Wild Center , an interactive science museum in New York’s Adirondacks. 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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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

While creating such systems, especially the infrastructure to separate food waste to turn into compost, are critical to the fight against climate change, there is also a growing emphasis on prevention. This isn’t rocket science.” Do they have the labor? What’s their financing?”

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Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2024

He steeps the compost like a tea, extracting the microorganisms in water, and then runs it through his irrigation system. In addition to applying compost tea, Robb supports fungal life by creating mulch from wood chips, which the fungi help decompose. He mostly grows salad greens across 3 acres of farmland.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Raised concrete beds laid with 2 feet of compost successfully transformed the vacant lot into farmland. The farm has also created a learning garden to teach residents the science of gardening. I didn’t have the science, but I had the skills and the labor. It’s kind of like landscaping,’” Morgan recalls. It’s pretty nice.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Her goal for the class was to learn how to improve her soil and figure out how to compost. “Carbon footprint, food insecurity, clean food, so people aren’t sick— it’s just so in our face … It’s not rocket science to see the answer to it. [We ” she wanted to know.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

I’m a perennial student of the culinary arts & sciences, regenerative and sustainable growing practices, and the human interaction and community that surrounds,” Toby said. Through soil testing, Toby hopes to learn more about what his soil needs and what amendments, like compost and biochar, are best suited to his site.

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UnderstandingAg

JANUARY 6, 2025

He then wrote the book Mycorrhizal Planet , which is one of the most elaborate books interweaving science, art, and poetry. He emphasized feeding fungi through applications of mulches, compost, and managing leaf litter, which he termed fungal foods or fungal duff.

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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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Many conventional farmers implement organic practices such as compost applications, diversified rotations, cover cropping, or biological integrated pest management (IPM) to build healthy soil and reduce the direct and environmental costs of production. Yet, knowledge gaps remain that warrant additional research attention.

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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. These bioplastics are biodegradable and compostable, reducing plastic waste accumulation and its associated harm to ecosystems.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

From my brothers, my grandparents, my aunts and uncles, and especially my parents, I learned the science and arts of agriculture. In an environmental-specific context, that means composting in the backyard and using that compost in the raised beds we built last spring. They also taught me to love the land. To care for it.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In a bid to be totally true to his terroir—a French winemaking concept that aims to impart a combination of natural factors including soil, climate and sunlight to the glass—he’s working with a herd of indigenous cattle to “produce” compost. We brought in a herd of 10 Nantaise cows and a bull for their compost,” he explains.

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Fork Farms

JULY 17, 2023

It can inspire and prepare students for future STEM and develop a lifelong appreciation for science and the environment. Students can investigate other integrated solutions such as: composting, crop rotation, and farm co-ops. By growing their food using hydroponics, students learn about the additional benefits of local food systems.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Today, biodynamic farmers on the cutting edge are taking the philosophy and science that has served them so well on their farms and applying it to their business practices. Straw and manure for our compost comes from local farms in our neighborhood, which we mix with remains from grapes after theyve been pressed.

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Caff

MARCH 28, 2022

CAFF does that for farmers– it sees and describes trends in soil science and productivity, it helps farms find new sales outlets, it makes the importance of both food safety and food security prominent in its work, and it provides financial assistance to small family farms.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

From mycorrhizal networks to worm counts, compost to phytochemicals, and ruminant health to ultra-processed foods, What Your Food Ate explains the ripple effects emanating from our lack of regard for soil health. With a strong scientific bent, Montgomery and Biklé dissect each of their focus topics – soil, plants, animals and people.

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Sustainable Harvest International

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In Phase 1 of SHI’s multi-phase program, she quickly learns how to build a plant nursery and compost storage. After the compost turns into soil, it then gets used in the vegetable garden. With support from SHI, Maritza is learning how to make the most of their land by diversifying crops and using organic agricultural methods.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Importantly, compost cannot be used as a growing medium for microgreens due to the high risk of foodborne illness and contamination. Microgreens also offer hands-on opportunities for lessons in various subjects, from science to nutrition, and can be part of engaging farm to school activities like taste tests and cooking projects.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

The previous National Academy of Sciences study on links between human and soil health has been deleted, as it is already under way. The Agriculture Resilience Act (ARA) addresses all of those additional areas that the IRA does not.

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CalCAN

AUGUST 10, 2023

For farms to have the option and ability to eliminate burning, sequester carbon, build healthy soils, conserve water and reduce dust, they first need specialized, expensive equipment like no-till seed drills, compost spreaders, chippers, shredders, and low-dust harvest equipment.

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Agriculture for Life

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry (TNAU, Coimbatore INDIA) Hi, this is Dr. Marco Thiruselvam with Green Wave Products and I am going to talk about growing tips with AgriPOWER HGDF. Marco Thiruselvam B.M.E. University Malaya, Malaysia); BMM (JAMA, Japan); Ph.D.,

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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.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

They’re also working on adding a composting processing site, neighbor approval pending. “We Photo courtesy of the Regenerative Agriculture Alliance) The Science Haslett-Marroquin is confident that the system he has developed works, but he knows that Western scientific research is key to scaling it up.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

She describes this process in natural terms, as the composting of sadness and grief. asks Kori Czuy, one of the instructors at Soil Camp and the manager of Indigenous science connections at the TELUS Spark Science Centre in Calgary. She de-emphasizes scientific hierarchies and rigid categorization.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Currently, most potato peels are discharged or used in animal feed and biogas production through anaerobic digestion or composting, as they are considered low in added value—meaning they lack significant attributes or advantages compared to similar products already on the market. Can we please count on you to be part of our growing movement?

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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. Mayors of nearly 100 cities have signed on to embrace inclusive, science-based, and collaborative approaches to cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In this 2023 Holiday Book Guide, you’ll find reviews of memoirs, personal essays, histories, science writing, journalism, cookbooks, guidebooks, and photo collections—written by our editors, staff writers, and freelance contributors. In addition to our top picks for holiday giving, you’ll find a roundup of our recent book coverage.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 3, 2024

It explores what it means to be human in the age of the Anthropocene , reading theorists, she says, who straddle art and science and think about how those disciplines can help people interrogate and rethink humans in relation to soil, microbes and the food we’re growing.

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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. 7110, 7113, 7213). 7201, 7202, 7203).

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

They offer a rigorous Agricultural Sciences undergraduate program that emphasizes entrepreneurship, environmental responsibility, and social commitment. EAT , International EAT seeks to transform global food systems by integrating science, innovation, and collaboration across sectors.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Sir Albert Howard, who developed the scientific aerobic composting method and brought it to the world in his iconic 1943 book, An Agricultural Testament , wrote “Artificial manures [that’s what he called chemical fertilizer] lead inevitably to artificial nutrition, artificial food, artificial animals, and finally to artificial men and women.”

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RR2CS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

They have a very advanced group of people working on soil science,” he says. The Perry’s also source manure from neighbouring feedlots to compost and mix into the soil. He credits the region’s success with mobilizing large numbers of no-till farmers. Harold and his family are farming with future generations in mind.

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The Lunatic Farmer

MARCH 7, 2025

That's why we start chicks on deep, composting bedding, not wire mesh or concrete. It's why we feed non-GMO feedstocks and compost-fertilized forages. The conventional narrative wreaks of anti-science and fraud. Our responsibility is to provide a habitat to give immunological defenses a fighting chance. Sounds like covid to me.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Notably, this includes provisions from the Agricultural Resilience Act , the Organic Science Research and Investment Act , and the Seeds and Breeds for the Future Act. Other practices that build soil organic matter, such as cover crops, compost, perennials and conservation tillage, can sequester carbon in the soil.

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Food Politics

AUGUST 15, 2023

The COWS Act would fund upgrades to manure management systems on dairies and other livestock operations, such as implementing composting instead of liquid lagoons and increasing the time cows spend on pasture, to prevent water pollution and reduce methane emissions.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 9, 2023

The COWS Act would fund upgrades to manure management systems on dairies and other livestock operations, such as implementing composting instead of liquid lagoons and increasing the time cows spend on pasture, to prevent water pollution and reduce methane emissions.

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