Hartwood Farm

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

But on a farm of our scale and crop mix, time is the main limiting factor! Last year we had something around 700 plantings total, of over 150 crop varieties, and each was handled slightly differently at each stage (seed starting, greenhouse water and heat, planting, cultivation, harvesting, and post-harvest).

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Hartwood Farm

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

I wanted to name this “Ignoring the (Crop Rotation) Experts,” but that title is way too loaded these days! However, in terms of crop rotation, I increasingly find the rigidity of ideas on how to do it chafing. Our goal with crop rotation is to plant things in a way that we don’t have to spray and that they still stay healthy.

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Traditional plowing or tilling can disrupt the soil structure, making it more susceptible to erosion. In addition, leaving crop residues on the field contributes to the accumulation of organic matter, which helps binding soil particles together, forming soil aggregates.

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ATTRA

APRIL 9, 2024

The summer crops have just about given their all, their leaves brown with wilt or downy mildew, an element of a plant’s natural senescence. The garden wants to go to sleep, and I tuck it in with a blanket of cover crops… my favorite seed mix of vetch, rye, and clover. I, too, am subject to natural senescence. Like your hoe.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 19, 2023

With an abundance of open grassland, rich soil, and an extensive inland river system known as the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia is well-positioned for irrigated cropping and grazing. This would not only slash methane emissions but also reduce the land use impact of livestock by eliminating the need for extra grain production as feed.

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Farmbrite

JUNE 1, 2023

These days, farming is a lot more than just plowing the field and planting seeds. Operating loans are used for operating expenses such as labor costs, seed, fertilizer and other supplies needed for crop production. They can also be used for livestock purchases such as cows or pigs.

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Agritecture Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Despite being "perfectly good to eat," up to 40 percent of Melvin's 36 hectares of cauliflower gets plowed back into the ground each year, according to the Nova Scotia farmer's estimates. "We The seed of a solution A new funding stream for growers is required, Melvin says, to get leftover produce into the food bank system.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

These pens are seeded with leafy greens that provide food and a hospitable environment for the development of the snails. Setting up the farm was a challenge for Mattia - the physical labor was exhausting, and additionally, Mattia was not familiar with plowing, crop production, or other farm procedures. It is located on 1.2

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The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

They’d take a few hundred acres of both leased and family-owned central-Texas farmland—land that for decades had grown row crops of corn and cotton—and give it “what it wants back,” he said. See full series Back around 2011, Jonathan Cobb and his wife, Kaylyn, had what he calls a “simple game plan.” Here in the U.S.,

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

From losing seed crops as wildfires rage for weeks, to losing entire crops as a result of erratic freezes, to losing farms as drought dries up available water, farmers’ risks are rising. CalCAN is a member of NSAC and played a part in developing the original version of the Agriculture Resilience Act.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

Now, a new crop of seaweed startups, many funded by venture capital and tech industry players, is pouring millions into projects using seaweed to mitigate climate change. Without adequate safeguards, they wrote, “seaweed could become the next boom and bust crop that was supposed to ‘save the world.’”

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

These practices include reducing or eliminating tilling of soil, planting “cover crops” that grow during the off-season and are not harvested, improving how farmers use fertilizer and manure, and planting trees. But I think we should be much more vigilant about maintaining productivity” as more farmers start using cover crops.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

It’s one thing the Biden administration, agribusiness leaders, soil scientists and environmentalists all agree on: farmers across the country should plant cover crops. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack , cover crops are being asked to do something new and high-stakes: draw atmospheric carbon into the soil to help fight climate change.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 4, 2024

Traveling through Appalachia, Tessa Desmond and her team kept hearing the seed stories. He had overheard Desmond discussing seeds with his neighbor. People have hung on to seeds even when they aren’t actively planting and tending them,” says Desmond. We’ve included audio samples of oral histories from the project.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 1, 2025

Radiating from their geographical and spiritual epicenter in Iowa, these two crops cover nearly two-thirds of U.S. These crops are the raw materials the food industry transforms into the dizzying array of products that fill hundreds of millions of bellies every day. Why all the love for just two crops? Californias.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Farmers markets cropped up around the country. Related Stories Feed the people Christian Letourneau , February 10, 2021 Eater What seed-saving can tell us about the end of the world Kea Krause , November 16, 2022 Orion A collective future for American agriculture? Fusion cuisine, from fajitas to Chinese chicken salad, was everywhere.

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