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Organics, Carbon Farming, and Cultivating Soil (and Values!)

Hartwood Farm

In a lot of ways, carbon farming is like organic farming—the end result is good for a lot of people and agro-ecological systems, but our societal’s economic system isn’t really structured to reward this slow path. Like soil microbes, Beulah enjoys grazing on cover crops in the wintertime. This was just last week in our resting high tunnel!

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These State Lawmakers Are Collaborating on Policies that Support Regenerative Agriculture

Civil Eats

Against the backdrop of a carefully managed perennial pasture, the gathering focused on legislative approaches to promoting regenerative farming and ranching practices, which the group believes can galvanize support across partisan and rural-urban divides. The benefits are just so multifaceted,” she says, “that it’s kind of a no-brainer.”

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Agroforestry Deepens Roots with New Demonstration Farm Network

Modern Farmer

Silvopasture integrates trees into livestock production for pasture and animal health. Blooming ecological success Maggie Taylor of Delight Flower Farm, a commercial cut-flower farm in Champaign, Ill., has always been ecologically minded. Adams notes they also pay farmers for offering education, research and outreach.

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Lunch and Learn: Ethanol, Implications and a Livelihood

Wisconsin Farmers Union

Per Cooper, “the more you’re using, the better benefits” which is part of the reason RFA advocates for higher mix standards. “In the US we are cultivating fewer and fewer acres each and every year. That trend has not been interrupted by the use of renewable fuels.”

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Food Systems 101: How Community Colleges Are Helping Students Connect Farm to Fork

Modern Farmer

Bakersfield College boasts an Edible Gardens Catalog program, Kalamazoo Community College offers Sustainable Food Systems Competencies coursework and Greenfield Community College’s Farm and Food Systems covers mushroom foraging and cultivation, permaculture design, beekeeping, food preservation and more.

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Colombian Farmers Turn Deforested Land into Sustainable Amazonian Farms

Agritecture Blog

Local residents have been working to restore and conserve the deforested land through sustainable, ecologically-oriented farming methods. We began to divide up pastures, create agroforestry systems where we have vegetation that provides shade and food for the animals, and we began to rotate the cows in the 52 lots that we have today.”

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When Not Farming is the Best Use of Land

Modern Farmer

A 2020-21 survey conducted by DFWT recorded greater use of the uncropped fields for habitat and hunting by raptors and the endangered Great Blue Pacific Heron, compared to cultivated fields. Removing livestock for even 10 years from this land can cause an ecological disaster in grassland communities.”

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