Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 5, 2023

slide-intro --> A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. By Rowan Jacobsen , July 24, 2019 An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees By Paige Embry , June 20, 2019 In January, with the almond bloom in California’s orchards a month away, beekeepers across the country were fretting over their hives.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Orchard 81

Caff

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The surprisingly warm weather attracted a large crowd eager to discuss cover cropping and integrated sheep grazing. She highlighted their commitment to sustainable farming practices, of which include habitat restoration, bird boxes, cover cropping, and recently, integrating sheep into the vineyard for grazing.

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Livestock Crop Farming Farming 52

Farmbrite

JULY 18, 2024

Orchard grass hay is soft as well as palatable and good for animals with respiratory issues or animals that are picky or need variety in their meals. Orchard Grass Hay: A soft, palatable hay that's good for horses with respiratory issues. Orchard Grass Hay: Similar to Timothy, but softer and more palatable.

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Livestock Forage Cattle Orchard 72

Caff

AUGUST 5, 2022

The Community Alliance with Family Farms (CAFF) hosted our fourth Biologically Integrated Orchard System (BIOS) field day, titled “Effective IPM Strategies for Major Walnut Pests,” at Blossom Farms on July 12th. Mike recounts how Randy started planting cover crops in 2010 to combat soil compaction and to incorporate biomass into the soil.

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Farming Farming Orchard Soil Compaction 52

Daily Yonder

APRIL 3, 2024

Instead of applying industrial chemicals to amend soils or introducing irrigation to regulate crop growth, permaculture gardening is an adaptive, self-regenerative, and diversity-driven approach in food production and pollinator habitat cultivation. Grayson LandCare Members bring in a harvest from the Permaculture Garden.

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Ruralism Textiles Orchard Food 70

Modern Farmer

MARCH 29, 2024

Across the Phoenix metro area, citrus trees sag under the weight of more produce than homeowners can harvest and use. ” The greenery in these food forests mitigates the heat island effect and creates milder microclimates where food crops can flourish. His efforts are already paying off. It looks like a forest.”

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Modern Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

For Paddock, maximizing “ crop per drop ”—getting the most yield with the least amount of water—is important. It’a not just because it’s cheaper and not just because Capay Hills Orchard , his farm just north of Sacramento, is in an area of California that is increasingly drought-prone. Almonds are notorious for being a thirsty crop.

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Orchard Crop Family Farming Farming 75

CalCAN

JUNE 21, 2023

Their neighbors’ operations include vineyards, orchards, grain and vegetables. The collective currently shares two mid-sized combine harvesters, one mini-combine harvester, a compost spreader, two seed cleaners, a berm flamer, a no-till drill, and a foliar spray trailer. Now, every farmer in the collective uses compost.

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Compost Grain Harvesting Harvester 52

AGRIVI

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Miscommunication and noise often occur, which could be frustrating and inefficient at a time when precise work, such as harvesting or other field activity, needs to be performed. By opening a work order in orchard protection, a farm manager can provide precise instructions on activities that have to be performed.

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Farming Farming Production Orchard 106

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 1, 2023

But with longer summers, the trees are harvested while temperatures in November often remain above freezing. Thus, they aren’t getting that cold signal to develop their resin coat, which causes post-harvest needle loss—that pile of shedding needles under the decorated tree. Photography courtesy of Aldor Acres Farm.

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Acre Harvesting Harvester Harvest 101

Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 25, 2024

slide-intro --> The ranching industry’s toxic grass problem By Robert Langellier , March 27, 2024 Buzzkill By Dan Charles , December 18, 2023 How mushrooms can prevent megafires By Stephen Robert Miller , July 10, 2023 A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. Then billions of crabs died.

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Orchard Acre Pesticide Farming 93

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. A small sheep herd that was on the property from when her parents farmed the land was integrated into organic crop rotation. They were a rough crew of sheep!”

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Acre Farming Farming Pasture 106

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Enlisting a staff of 16 and an army of volunteers, the organization cultivates the crop in knee-deep water diverted from Heʻeia stream. Along with taro patches, the triangular swaths encompassed a range of terrain, from upland timber forests to rain-fed crop fields and orchards in the lowlands.

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Acre Plantation Cultivation Crop 117

Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

As California has lost much of its grain to higher value crops, small flour mills and grain cleaning businesses have disappeared, too. Prior to that, they had all either harvested by hand, an intensely laborious process, or hired someone with a combine. Now, the farmers’ soil will be better protected during dry times of the year.

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Grain Farming Farming Orchard 111

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Since 2017, the cooperative has been piloting new ways to collect, process, and market tree crops, with the goal of catalyzing a local nut-based economy. European settlers also made use of wild tree crops, particularly black walnuts, and Holt says numerous companies processed and sold them through the middle of the 20th century.

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Processing Forage Yield Production 122

Caff

JANUARY 26, 2022

In October 2020, the Bear Yuba Land Trust, Sierra Harvest, BriarPatch Food Co-op and Tahoe Food Hub bought the land through a partnership called Forever Farm. The entire Sierra Orchards team is not only deeply knowledgeable and committed to their roles as land stewards, but they are forever generous with that wisdom.

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Farming Farming Orchard Food 52

CalCAN

AUGUST 10, 2023

Christine Gemperle, almond farmer and CalCAN advisor recently drove to Sacramento from her orchard in Ceres to testify in support of equipment sharing and sustainable agriculture investments alongside CalCAN staff. Anna Larson, Christine Gemperle and legislative director Mike Sharif.

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Orchard Farming Farming Agriculture 52

Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Food Well Alliance Food Well Alliance brings together leaders of the local food movement to support more than 300 community gardens, urban farms, and orchards in metro Atlanta. They support 10 farm, community garden and orchard sites in DeKalb and Rockdale Counties, helping communities grow fresh, culturally familiar crops.

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Cultivation Food Marketing Distribution 87

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

For example, increasing aridity in the Southwest and increasingly wet conditions throughout the northeast regions of the country–from the Midwest through New England–are likely to challenge crop and livestock production. the Osage Nation’s community orchard. from NCA5 Higher temperatures can stress both crops and livestock.

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Agriculture Agriculture Livestock Forage 105

Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

But while winter crops start to get going as autumn darkens, there are also summer crops reaching their end, still full of abundance. On our farm, we are often still harvesting peppers and aubergines, sometimes even late tomatoes, from our polytunnels, while we look towards our winter salads and think about having leeks again.

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Cultivation Orchard Food Seeding 106

Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

slide-intro --> A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. By Rowan Jacobsen , July 24, 2019 An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees By Paige Embry , June 20, 2019 In January, with the almond bloom in California’s orchards a month away, beekeepers across the country were fretting over their hives.

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Farming Farming Orchard Acre 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 11, 2023

slide-intro --> A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. By Rowan Jacobsen , July 24, 2019 An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees By Paige Embry , June 20, 2019 In January, with the almond bloom in California’s orchards a month away, beekeepers across the country were fretting over their hives.

Orchard 52

Orchard Acre Pesticide Farming 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 21, 2022

slide-intro --> A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. By Rowan Jacobsen , July 24, 2019 An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees By Paige Embry , June 20, 2019 In January, with the almond bloom in California’s orchards a month away, beekeepers across the country were fretting over their hives.

Orchard 52

Orchard Acre Pesticide Farming 52

Caff

JULY 18, 2024

She has really focused on diversifying her operation and ecosystem to include citrus and apple trees, and annual vegetable crops, which you can enjoy if you have lunch at their on-site bistro. Two times a year in the fall harvest season, we do community milling. This is an event that we have done for almost 15 years now.

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Ecology Farming Farming Pesticide 52

Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This threatens native crops and wild species. Kernza® is a deeply rooted perennial grain harvested from intermediate wheatgrass and provided to the breweries by A-Frame Farm in Minnesota. “By The brewery is located on a small but busy farm with apple orchards, market gardens, two greenhouses, an apiary, and a flock of chickens.

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Beverage Ecology Compost Cultivation 120

ATTRA

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Agroforestry is the intentional integration of trees into cropping and/or livestock systems, inspired by Indigenous wisdom, and it can be applied in many ways and in many different places – even in cities! What are the skillsets, knowledge, experiences, and resources that the community could contribute to a forest garden or community orchard?

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Food Distribution Rural Development Forestry 111

Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

Food grown in local fields, orchards, and pastures with healthy soil management practices simply make for healthier, more nutritious, and more flavorful meals, he says—the perfect ingredients for changing the “stigma” associated with hospital fare. herding around 50 heads.

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Pasture Ranching Supply Chain Cattle 116

RR2CS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

We just opted to switch gears into something different to grow a higher value crop,” says Rick. “We In 2007, after the perennial berry had established, the Gelowitz’s enjoyed their first harvest. The airflow is important for the orchard.” We needed more land [to grow hay], but it was too expensive in the Calgary area.

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Orchard Farming Farming Harvesting 52

Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

Students harvesting greens with Teens for Food Justice. School was out, so the farmers—students at public charter school Green Street Academy —had abandoned their crops for the summer. Many of its farms are built directly into empty classrooms, and students at each school tend the crops with the help of a farm manager.

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Food Greenhouse Farming Farming 52

Agwired

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Case IH is introducing new tractor models for specialty crop producers that will integrate seamlessly into orchard operations of any size, delivering improved operator comfort, minimizing crop damage and enhancing productivity. Syngenta Crop Protection and Lavie Bio Ltd. , a subsidiary of Evogene Ltd.,

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Tractor Technology Harvesting Harvester 59

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Plant a holly orchard and let nature do the work for you,” read one brochure. After a long career in the federal government, Ken Bajema retired in 1988, returned to his childhood home, and picked up where his dad left off: Harvesting, cutting and shipping holly branches to customers across the US. But then his two worlds collided.

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Ecology Seeding Acre Processing 116

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 12, 2022

If the most recent decade is a guide to the future, he says, the district can only expect to receive enough water to grow crops on about 300,000 acres in an average year. That’s half the original area of Westlands Water District, and 40 percent less than what’s available to grow crops today. What’s worse, the water comes in bursts.

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Farming Farming Distribution Acre 52

Modern Farmer

MARCH 25, 2024

Q: If you want to plant an orchard with a guild but are limited on resources, which plants should be prioritized? Elderberries are a hardy perennial crop that has been harvested by humans for centuries. How can those of us on more poorly drained soil grow the highest-value tree crop? Q: Where/how can I sell my products?

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Farming Farming Crop Production 85

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In late July 2020, he was driving a 1971 International Harvester 1066 tractor—which did not have an ROPS or a seatbelt—with a trailer near the edge of a bumpy road before sunrise. Most of the rollovers in Washington occurred on crop farms, including the state’s signature apple orchards.

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Tractor Farming Farming Acre 89

Modern Farmer

JUNE 6, 2024

Without pollinators to fertilize berry crops, orchards or field crops such as squash, all of us eaters are also endangered. Migrating herds of deer or elk, for example, can, through their grazing and trampling of the ground, break down organic matter into the soil, releasing nutrients that benefit crop production.

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Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 91

Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

CONTENT SOURCED FROM ENERGY NEWS NETWORK Written by: Kari Lydersen Maine’s wild blueberries are a unique crop that can’t be planted from seed, explains lifelong blueberry farmer Paul Sweetland. He hopes that a new “crop” growing in tandem with berries could help boost the local industry and preserve farmland.

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Agriculture Agriculture Construction Farming 52

Civil Eats

JUNE 29, 2023

Some of the first year’s crop was lost to cold weather, so today the plants begin in a greenhouse long before being replanted outside. Then we harvest in September. Ana Lopez inspects a tree seedling in a Tierra y Libertad orchard. We planted and grew corn, and then we’d harvest it. We also grew chilacoyote.

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