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Constructed Wetlands as a Sustainable Water Treatment Alternative

Cropaia

Constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment represent a seamless integration of engineering innovation with ecological principles. The intricacies of designing, implementing, and managing constructed wetlands demand a technical understanding to optimize their performance and sustainability.

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Restoring native grasslands after wildfire

Western FarmPress

Tips to consider as producers recover rangeland burned by the wildfires: “This isn’t just an ecological recovery; it’s a construction recovery—lost fences and water infrastructure—and even a mental recovery, too."

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MEASURING STEWARDSHIP

The Lunatic Farmer

Coast Guard officers in charge of this program put Polyface on their itinerary last year as an example of American agriculture ecological entrepreneurism. Destruction takes no thoughtfulness; construction is hard. Coast Guard two-month international program. The program has two cohorts a year; the second one visits later in the summer.

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Should We Be Farming in the Desert?

Civil Eats

This level of agriculture was not possible in the Imperial Valley until the construction of the Alamo Canal , also known as the Imperial Canal, in 1901, which diverted water from the Colorado River. We respect the land, and we respect the impact that we can have on the ecosystem,” he says. “It’s

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Can a Farm Generate Solar Power and Blueberries at Once?

Daily Yonder

To measure this, researchers worked with BlueWave to designate three areas with varying levels of construction precautions. She suspects that’s because construction did not disrupt the soil profile at the depth of the blueberry’s roots, leaving both the plant and soil intact.

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Rewilding: Threat or promise for hill farming?

Sustainable Food Trust

The environmental and financial problems of the hill farming sector have been written about exhaustively, so I won’t expand on them here – other than to say that while hill farming has a central role to play in socially and ecologically vibrant landscapes, a major shift towards agroecological practices is needed to realise this.

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Native Youth Learn to Heal Their Communities Through Mycelium

Civil Eats

At Spirit of the Sun , Native American youth are not only learning about traditional ecological knowledge , they’re also empowered to do the teaching. One of the project’s biggest obstacles is losing already rare Denver-area growing spaces to new construction projects, Hemingway explains.

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