Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This radically seasonal, regional restaurant sources its ingredients exclusively from the ocean, climate-adapted farms, and wild plants of the Mid-Atlantic. Come February, we have this very short farm list. They source sunflower and canola oil from Pennsylvania farms. Toward the end of winter, it gets a little. agriculture.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

CSP for its part helps build on existing conservation already in place on a farm. The farmers spoke in turns detailing how they use these programs on their farms along with their personal stories of how they came to this work. The Phillips’ farm, nestled in the Ozarks in northwest Arkansas, raises livestock.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2023

One of the key questions lingering over the 2023 farm bill reauthorization is whether Congress will approve a farm bill that builds climate resilience for the countless farmers whose livelihoods depend on it. A test plot of crimson clover at USDA NRCS Plant Material Center. Through the IRA, CSP received a total of $3.25

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth post in a multi-part blog series analyzing the Farm Food and National Security Act of 2024 (FFNSA), which was reported out of the House Agriculture Committee on Friday, May 24. Overall, FFNSA misses the mark and fails to sufficiently address the most fundamental threat to our food and farm system.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Agroforestry—the integration of trees and shrubs into crop and animal farming systems—has been used since ancient times to produce fruits, nuts, coffee, cocoa and medicinal herbs. Wendy Johnson’s ‘natural savannah’ Wendy Johnson and her husband, Johnny Rafkin, own Jóia Food & Fiber Farm, in Charles City, Iowa.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

A reference to diversification is fundamentally a reference to restoring the ecosystem function of farmland by allowing living organisms to reclaim roles that beginning in the mid-20th century have been assigned largely to synthetic chemicals or machines in conventional farming. Rotating crops also significantly reduces pests and diseases.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

In addition to learning about regenerative farming practices, the diverse group had gathered to understand how state-level agricultural legislation can bring about climate resilience, food security, and social equity. Historically, that space has been dominated by state level farm bureaus and the larger federal, Kimbirauskas says.

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Caff

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Since 2017, CAFF’s Ecological Farming team has been conducting an on-farm demonstration project in collaboration with California no-till farmers to better understand small-scale biointensive no-till farming’s effect on soil health.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

My little mad farm helps me do that. And since cover cropping is scalable to just about any size farm or garden, it made sense to conduct some field experiments of my own. Plant a cover crop and, bingo, you’re a regenerative farmer. Until then, it seems to me a comprehensive, ecological approach is what’s needed.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. This is yet another reason to prioritize diversity of species in cash crop rotations, cover crop mixes and pasture composition.

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 16, 2023

Polyculture is a farming method that encourages biodiversity. It's not just about mixing up crops and hoping for the best; instead, it's about creating an ecosystem where plants thrive together. Here are some of the benefits of polyculture farming: What is polyculture farming? Polyculture farming encourages biodiversity.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Photo credit: USDA EDITOR’S NOTE: On October 9, 2024, NSAC released Stewarding Success: CSP Under the 2018 Farm Bill , a comprehensive analysis of the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) over the course of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill). CSP was reauthorized in the 2014 Farm Bill and the 2018 Farm Bill.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 27, 2023

347.563.6408 Release: NSAC Celebrates Introduction of Whole Farm Revenue Protection Improvement Act Washington, DC, July 27, 2023 – Today, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) introduced the Whole Farm Revenue Protection (WFRP) Program Improvement Act alongside Senators Booker (D-NJ), Fetterman (D-PA), Smith (D-MN), and Welch (D-VT).

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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 10, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Introducing fallow periods into a cropping rotation also speeds up water table rise in these environments. Its much more complex than that.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Planning Winter Cover Crop Rotations Maximizing cover crop benefits in the garden requires strong crop planning with strategic rotations coupled with creative improvision so it’s important to examine strategies and considerations for incorporating cover crops with no-till methods and inter-seeding.

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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Farmers need to have annual inspections to demonstrate delivery against those standards, ranging from controlled pesticide usage to crop rotations and natural fertiliser usage. After that, they still need to pay annually to keep up their certified status and undergo an invasive on-farm audit.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Hydroponic and crop rotation systems first caught Nikita’s attention when he was in graduate school, and as part of his masters thesis, he began looking at how these innovations could be integrated into interior design and architectural projects. Shumeiko’s chandelier is a great example of biophilic design in practice.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

At Arla Foods , its UK emissions are 4.8MtCo23 and 83% of those come from its farms. Arla is running pilots with 24 farmers in the UK, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark to “explore regenerative farming methods in a structured and coordinated manner.” Nestlé ’s footprint is 92MtCO2e with 71% from ‘ingredients sourcing’.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

Photo credit: USDA Editor’s Note: This guest post by Michael Happ, Program Associate for Climate and Rural Communities at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, (IATP), discusses how popular conservation programs should focus on small-scale and sustainable farms, not industrial-scale farms. water resources.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Farming and food production are central to UK society. This short briefing explores how regenerative farming is core to delivery of Labour’s missions, and how public investment in the farming transformation can deliver for its economic, environmental and social goals. This level of ambition is needed again now.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

Over recent years, no-till farming has been widely advocated as one of the ways to make farming more sustainable. It is also one of the paid options under Defra’s Sustainable Farming Incentive. What he could not have known is that the processes he describes, depend, amongst other things, on the action of mycorrhizal fungi.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 14, 2025

SFT Content Editor, Alicia Miller, provides an overview on this year’s Oxford Real Farming Conference, including one of the SFT’s sessions, Grazing for Good, which took a closer look at the integral relationship between livestock and the biodiversity it supports.

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