Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 5, 2024

But our organic and biodynamic farmers can prove that there’s an alternative, they can sequester carbon in their soils, sequester carbon in their trees, they fight the emission of methane by their system of waste management, turning wastage into compost into black gold for farmers.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

Some see the answer to more sustainable fabrics in new materials that can readily decompose or be recycled; others say natural fibers and local supply chains are the way to go. According to its website, the material decays in controlled composting conditions. What’s the solution? “I have one customer in the world.”

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

And because they grow quickly with minimal resources—and without herbicides or pesticides—scientists point to their potential to help bolster nutritional security, hedge against disruptions in the food supply chain and even generate fresh produce on long-term space missions.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 4, 2024

Besides foraging for fungi adapted to the subarctic environment, taming the stew of toxins required a larger bioremediation strategy, using local willows to concentrate inorganic contaminants such as heavy metals, as well as municipal compost, which added microbes and nutrients to help spur decomposition.

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Caff

MARCH 23, 2021

Agricultural Solutions to the Climate Crisis ($1.135 billion) — Sustainable agricultural solutions to slow the impacts of climate change and reduce pollution; strategies that reduce wildfire risk and invest in farmland conservation to keep our farms viable and resilient; compost infrastructure to build healthy soils; groundwater sustainability.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A shaky economy, crime-ridden cities, fragile supply chains, empty supermarket shelves, increasingly invasive government regulations, dysfunctional mental health, kids addicted to social media—all these things make thinking people want to disentangle from the system. We don’t know where we’ll land, but we’re getting out.”

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Through their Resource Center programming, the Alliance offers trainings and workshops; volunteer and labor support; compost, tools, and equipment; and capacity building grants. They also bring local government leaders together to develop plans that integrate urban agriculture into city planning processes.

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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. You depend less on globalized supply chains,” says environmental scientist Florian Payen, who authored that review paper on yields.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

This circular approach annually takes 60,000 kilograms of food waste that would have either rotted in a landfill or have been composted, and instead diverts it to protein production. Additionally, Mattia’s snails dine on food waste that Mattia collects from around town. I am fortunate that in my area, many hawks keep other birds away.

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Caff

JANUARY 26, 2022

During the pandemic, when vulnerabilities in our global supply chain become apparent, the Food Hub stepped up, pivoting to provide food direct to consumers. Self reliance runs deep in this part of California. The Mendo Lake Food Hub is showing that, at the community-scale, local food sovereignty is not only possible, but necessary.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

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. The Agriculture Resilience Act (ARA) addresses all of those additional areas that the IRA does not.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

They’re also working on adding a composting processing site, neighbor approval pending. “We If you’re doing it with integrity, there is not a lot of money to be made at that level of the supply chain,” says Christofore.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 14, 2023

Also, companies handle GAP-certified products well in the supply chain to maintain the quality of the products. And if you're using composted manure, document the turning, temperature monitoring, and mixing to guarantee that the manure is actively composed. Properly store and contain the manure.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick also partners with Patagonia and VF Corporation (owner of The North Face, Vans, Timberland, and JanSport)which are both interested in developing domestic supply chains for industrial hemp and have commissioned him to help with the research and development of its cultivation.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Mitigation requires slashing production and consumption, he adds, and increasing recycling and reuse all along the supply chain. Simply put, “there are no magic solutions,” says Demokritou. for its part, has dragged its feet on endorsing a binding U.N. treaty, despite being the world’s largest generator of plastic waste.

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Food Politics

AUGUST 15, 2023

In the bills, they proposed a wide range of changes, from more support for urban agriculture and small farms to new programs for farmer conservation education to improvements to the nation’s supply chain infrastructure and provisions that would expand SNAP access for college students and Tribes.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

They are behind the Fair Food Program , a partnership that seeks to create a more ethical supply chain that benefits workers, growers, retailers, and eaters. The organization aims to address systemic food supply chain issues and ultimately eliminate the need for their work.

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Food Tank

JULY 7, 2023

In support of Goal 3, to build modern, efficient, and resilient supply chains: The City is recognizing the power of urban agriculture. Plus, the City recently rolled out its first borough-wide organics collection program and expanded composting in NYC schools and older adult centers.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 9, 2023

In the bills, they proposed a wide range of changes, from more support for urban agriculture and small farms to new programs for farmer conservation education to improvements to the nation’s supply chain infrastructure and provisions that would expand SNAP access for college students and Tribes.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 7, 2024

They are using composting systems and anaerobic digesters to turn waste into fertilizer for the next planting. We’ve long shifted environmental stress to other countries in order to prop up our cheap food supply. But technology only gets us so far.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Hartman’s guide to how to downsize to fit into an urban or suburban neighborhood is like a study in farming history: pare down to seven tools, leave roots in place to nourish the soil, and “trust the compost.” Hartman maximizes many practices from the past while implementing today’s tech “on a human scale” to reap the greatest reward.

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Food Tank

JULY 16, 2024

to halve per capita global food waste at retail levels and reduce food loss along production and supply chains. The FIFLAW agreement notes that 30-40 percent of food produced globally is lost throughout the farm-to-consumer supply chain, and the agencies commit to reducing food loss and waste nationally and internationally. “By

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