Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

Graves draws upon the example of Troed y Rhiw Organics in Ceredigion, run by the Sustainable Food Trust’s Editor, Alicia Miller, and her partner Nathan Richards. Agriculture had not yet quite arrived as a practice and food was abundant.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

Walla Walla’s hands-on coursework is bringing together agriculture and culinary students as part of a nascent movement among community colleges that are increasingly bringing food production into curricula in new and innovative ways. Walla Walla Community College hopes to offer surplus agricultural products at its food pantry, too.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 7, 2025

It promotes the use of natural methods to cultivate healthy, environmentally friendly crops. Organic squash farming encourages sustainable practices that maintain ecological balance. By avoiding harmful chemicals, it ensures safer food for consumers and… Read More » Complete Practical Guide on Organic Squash Farming

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Caff

APRIL 2, 2024

As a farmer-serving organization, we recognize the historic and lasting inequities in the California food and farming system. Currently, our programming is focused in four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming.

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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. Heavy, angry water As a primary food source, kalo holds a reverent place in Native Hawaiian culture, playing a prominent role in its origin story.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Several years of steady investment and scientific breakthroughs have helped it advance, but since 2023, funding has dropped precipitously, and so have retail prices for seaweed-based foods. I don’t know if it’s 100 years or five years, but we’re gonna be growing huge amounts of food underwater,” he predicts.

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Caff

JANUARY 27, 2021

Every year, we honor individuals, farms and local businesses making a positive impact on our food and agricultural communities throughout California. Hailing from all corners of the state, each making their own unique contribution, here they are: the 2021 California Food & Farm Champions, shining a hopeful light on what’s possible.

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Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Supported by a food-for-work strategy developed by the World Food Program and the Ethiopian government, Abebe and his neighbors began terracing their gently sloping land and digging shallow water pans to collect rainwater whenever it came. As the rains vanished and temperatures soared, the topsoil hardened like pavement.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 8, 2024

For more than four decades, the executive director of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics (which she co-founded with Robert Swann in 1980) has been tending to a land-use movement in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, driven by innovative ideas for cultivating affordable access to farmland. HVS: What are the roadblocks here?

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Hartwood Farm

JANUARY 29, 2020

As farmers, we are super nervous about the environment and about climate change, and about how challenges to production might impact the health and quality of our food and our land, and this is the area where we worry about doing enough. And what do you value most in your food or farms?

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 3, 2024

Located in Grayson County, Virginia, one of the earliest projects for the organization was the Independence Farmers Market, providing an outlet for local foods and crafts. “It’s Permaculture means that gardeners work with existing ecological conditions in a specific place.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

The isolation of this ecologically rich archipelago of peaks, located in a “sea” of desert that stretches from northern Mexico into southern Arizona, means that plants grow here that don’t grow anywhere else. Currently, 44 percent of the world’s food is produced in arid and semi-arid lands. An Arizona Walnut tree.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 23, 2023

Lahaina, the former capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom , was once a thriving, ecologically diverse landscape full of fish ponds and diverse crops that included sweet potatoes, kalo (taro), and ‘ulu (breadfruit). On Maui, most of the sugarcane cultivation is in the Central Valley, which is largely a mesic habitat.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

(Photo credit: Andrew Leahy, Horn Farm Center) Pawpaw’s Agricultural and Ecological Benefits The pawpaw is not only a part of Appalachian heritage. Indigenous people first cultivated it in woodlands, using the tree’s fibrous inner bark to make ropes and string and its leaves and stems as medicine.

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Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

It sits alongside the Belize Northeastern Biological Corridor, which connects various ecological reserves and allows for safe passage of wildlife like jaguars and pumas. The ecological farming practices SHI partner farmers use provide even more habitat for wildlife and contribute to national conservation efforts.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

CAFF’s mission is to build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities and ecosystems. As a farmer-serving organization, we recognize the historic and lasting inequities in the California food and farming system.

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 29, 2023

Click Here to buy Bird Feeders to attract Birds to your lawns Chemical Control: Pros and Cons Chemical control measures for worms in lawns do exist, but they should be used with caution due to potential environmental and ecological impacts. Chemical pesticides may harm beneficial earthworm populations and other non-target organisms.

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Caff

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

CAFF’s mission is to build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities, and ecosystems. As a farmer-serving organization, we recognize the historic and lasting inequities in the California food and farming system.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

By most measures, the Imperial Valley is not a great place to grow food. Yet carrots, cauliflower, sweet onions, honeydew, broccoli, and alfalfa all grow here, incongruous crops that spread across half a million acres of cultivated land. From June to September, high temperatures here often exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Caff

APRIL 9, 2024

CAFF’s mission is to build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities, and ecosystems. As a farmer-serving organization, we recognize the historic and lasting inequities in the California food and farming system.

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Civil Eats

JULY 31, 2024

One type in particular, kelp—a large brown algae with many species, including sugar kelp— has been hailed as an ecologically beneficial, nutritious superfood that can be farmed on both U.S. You can’t have this incredibly positive impact on the environment, on the food chain, on our partner farmers. million pounds.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As director of demonstration and on-farm education for the Savanna Institute (SI) , she knows that agroforestry can be a game-changer in fighting climate change and creating healthier food systems. Blooming ecological success Maggie Taylor of Delight Flower Farm, a commercial cut-flower farm in Champaign, Ill.,

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Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2024

Shellfish are a traditional food source for the Shinnecock; they were also once the backbone of Long Island’s robust commercial fishing industry. And they can spell disaster for coastal communities, as 3 billion people globally rely on “blue foods” from the ocean, including shellfish, as a primary source of protein.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Where are we in the ecological succession? Trees exist in a different ecological succession stage than pioneering stage plants, also known as weeds. Ecological succession is the process by which plant communities change over time, eventually yielding a climax community. I did my graduate work in cotton.

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 31, 2023

In this comprehensive article, we will explore everything there is to know about the Marilee Crabapple tree – from its history and characteristics to cultivation tips and the myriad benefits it brings to your British garden. These fruits range in colour from bright red to reddish-orange, depending on their maturity.

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Caff

JUNE 6, 2024

As a farmer-serving organization, we recognize the historic and lasting inequities in the California food and farming system. Currently, our programming is focused in four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming. To learn more about CAFF, our history, and our core values, visit [link].

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Caff

JANUARY 30, 2023

In addition to restoring the proposed budget cuts, we aim to focus on program implementation to ensure state programs provide maximum benefits for small-scale, beginning, and underserved food producers as well as new policies! The Newsom Administration has proposed cutting these programs by 50 to 100 percent.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2023

At more than 5,000 feet above sea level and with its endless opportunities for outdoor adventure and good food, Boulder was the perfect backdrop to get down to coalition business. She discussed some of the challenges in her district and elsewhere as it becomes increasingly difficult to produce good food. As a pediatrician, Rep.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

From the stage of the Africa Food Systems Forum in Rwanda, the World Food Prize Foundation announced Dr. Dennis Beesigamukama, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) in Nairobi, Kenya, as the 2024 Recipient of the Norman E.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The bill is an important acknowledgement of the essential role urban agriculture plays in addressing environmental justice and disparities in public health ,” said Jen Silveri, Co-Executive Director with Michigan Food & Farming Systems , an NSAC member.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

In this series, we explore the role of metrics in transitioning to a more sustainable food and farming system, and we meet some of the people who are leading the way. The disaster , which left over 500,000 Americans homeless, intensified the Great Depression and devastated the region’s ecology. Copyright owned by LONDNR.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Written by: Brakeley Bryant , Christian Kanlian and Jeffrey Landau May 11, 2023 Cities and their food supplies are facing stressors such as increased urbanization, climate change, extreme weather, a lack of varied production systems and seed genetics, labor shortages, and logistics delays. Raised beds at Dallas Half Acre Farm.

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 29, 2023

Click Here to buy Bird Feeders to attract Birds to your lawns Chemical Control: Pros and Cons Chemical control measures for worms in lawns do exist, but they should be used with caution due to potential environmental and ecological impacts. Chemical pesticides may harm beneficial earthworm populations and other non-target organisms.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

CAFF’s mission is to build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities, and ecosystems. CAFF works on-the-ground with family farmers to assist them with climate smart farming, food safety plans, and introductions to new markets.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As a farmer-serving organization, we recognize the historic and lasting inequities in the California food and farming system. Currently our programming is focused in four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

Local residents have been working to restore and conserve the deforested land through sustainable, ecologically-oriented farming methods. Gutiérrez said farms like hers work because they understand that they need the soil, water and forest in excellent condition so their properties can also guarantee their food sovereignty.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

CAFF’s mission is to build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities and ecosystems. As a farmer-serving organization, we recognize the historic and lasting inequities in the California food and farming system.

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