Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 26, 2023

He realized the ecological importance of milkweed, sometimes viewed as a pest plant, and turned to gathering seed pods and encouraging gardeners to plant the flower. After seeing the lively discussion sparked by our profile of Steve Bushey, we know better. Read about their story here. Read about her story here.

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Hartwood Farm

JANUARY 29, 2020

There are still a lot of questions that science is working out—like how exactly the whole process works and what sort of impact different soil microbes have, but there does seem to be potential in carbon farming for helping mitigate climate change. Healthy, covered soil stays in place when we get the crazy rainstorms!

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 22, 2023

Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or a novice, this article will guide you through all aspects of cultivating and caring for the Desert Rose. Attractive Bonsai Specimens: Adenium obesum is highly sought-after for bonsai cultivation due to its distinctive caudex and intricate branching patterns.

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Kavya Organic Farm

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or a novice, this article will guide you through all aspects of cultivating and caring for the Desert Rose. Attractive Bonsai Specimens: Adenium obesum is highly sought-after for bonsai cultivation due to its distinctive caudex and intricate branching patterns.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

It’s a tedious but worthwhile process: drying mushrooms, vegetables, and herbs, making pickles and slaw, and preserving garlic blossoms and coriander seeds in airtight jars before these ingredients vanish with the end of the season. Seafood processing houses, they just cut the filet off and throw the carcass in the bin.

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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 5, 2024

The paucity of both private and government funding makes it harder for seaweed companies to handle the high cost of farming and processing. In Alaska, seaweed farmers can only cultivate seaweed varieties that grow natively within 50 kilometers of their farm. That’s a lot of ocean to potentially cultivate. million square miles.

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 29, 2023

Soil pH: In some cases, nightcrawler activity can lead to localized pH changes, making the soil more alkaline due to their digestive processes. Avoiding the use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers that may harm earthworms and other beneficial organisms helps preserve the delicate ecological balance in your garden.

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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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ATTRA

DECEMBER 26, 2023

They are documenting Lincoln’s living cover crop system, where he undersows Dutch white clover into vegetables after the last cultivation in July. Whereas at one time she advocated organic approaches and specific practices to deal with singular issues with pests or crop fertility, she now fosters a system based on ecological farm design.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

The author’s journey into landscapes of the past and the foods they provide takes him far and wide – starting in Çatalhöyük where humans first settled on the land becoming place-based, cultivating emmer wheat and barley, yet still hunting and foraging their food. Agriculture had not yet quite arrived as a practice and food was abundant.

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Caff

JUNE 6, 2024

Currently, our programming is focused in four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming. In 2020, after an extensive discussion and reflection process, CAFF affirmed justice and equity as a core value, and a commitment to better serve the needs of BIPOC farmers.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 3, 2024

Permaculture means that gardeners work with existing ecological conditions in a specific place. There was a lot of sheep farming in this community and the wool would come there for processing,” Pridgen said. Pridgen says that this garden is a “food forest” where the harvest is donated to serve the community.

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Caff

APRIL 9, 2024

Currently, our programming is focused in four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming. Reference requests will be made further along in the application process. We commit to advancing racial, gender, and environmental justice in our larger systems, as well as in our own workplace.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Currently, our programming is focused on four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming. Reference requests will be made further along in the application process. We commit to advancing racial, gender, and environmental justice in our larger systems, as well as in our own workplace.

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ATTRA

JULY 18, 2023

Solar panels have been installed over about 11 acres of wild blueberry plants in the first project in Maine to collocate solar electric production with wild blueberry cultivation. However, he didn’t want to see acres of wild blueberries destroyed in the process of constructing a solar array.

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Caff

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Currently, our programming is focused in four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming. Reference requests will be made further along in the application process. We commit to advancing racial, gender, and environmental justice in our larger systems, as well as in our own workplace.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2024

The Scientists Who Kickstarted American Kelp Farming The science behind this boom in seaweed cultivation began in New England nearly 50 years ago. The process took about three years, and cost $125,000 in permitting fees alone, paid to the California Coastal Commission. Gregarious and welcoming, Yarish can talk kelp nonstop.

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Caff

JANUARY 30, 2023

In the Fall of 2022 we embarked on our annual intensive farmer listening process, organizing over a dozen multilingual farmer gatherings, distributing our online survey to hundreds of growers, and holding numerous one-on-one conversations. Additional Priorities: Of course, the major priorities above are not the only issues impacting farmers.

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Caff

APRIL 2, 2024

Currently, our programming is focused in four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming. Reference requests will be made further along in the application process. We commit to advancing racial, gender, and environmental justice in our larger systems, as well as in our own workplace.

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Caff

JANUARY 27, 2021

ECOLOGICAL FARMER Kristyn Leach, Namu Farm Kristyn Leach runs Namu Farm, with a focus not just on organic heirloom Korean produce but also seed saving and production on a small scale at a time when the seed industry has been consolidated into the hands of just a few big businesses.

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Caff

JULY 28, 2024

This chemical process is called pyrolysis, and produces charcoal, or, biochar. Creating Biochar: Methods and Processes Biochar can be produced using specialized biochar kilns or through traditional methods like pile burning. Portuguese settlers called these Amazonian soils terra preito do indo which means Indian black earth.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The production, processing, transportation, and consumption of food are all part of the intricate web of operations that make up a “ food system.” The development of key recommendations is a crucial point in the planning process, so it is important to consider findings from the data as preliminary. Raised beds at Dallas Half Acre Farm.

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 29, 2023

Soil pH: In some cases, nightcrawler activity can lead to localized pH changes, making the soil more alkaline due to their digestive processes. Avoiding the use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers that may harm earthworms and other beneficial organisms helps preserve the delicate ecological balance in your garden.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The competition took place over three days and tasked contestants with creating working intellectual structures for the cultivation of ornamental, edible and medicinal plants that benefit people and the environment. He considered symbolism like the sun and moon in the design process, which is incorporated in the spherical forms.

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Caff

JANUARY 24, 2024

A Workshop with Cheetah Tchudi on Mycoremediation In December 2022, the Community Alliance with Family Farmers partnered with TurkeyTail Farm to co-host a workshop and peer-to-peer learning event about using mushrooms for bioremediation (utilizing natural processes to improve/heal something) in post-wildfire applications.

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 29, 2023

Soil pH: In some cases, nightcrawler activity can lead to localized pH changes, making the soil more alkaline due to their digestive processes. Avoiding the use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers that may harm earthworms and other beneficial organisms helps preserve the delicate ecological balance in your garden.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

We believe in a world where all farmers, communities and ecosystems are thriving, dignified and respected, cultivating a food system that centers those farmers who are currently most marginalized and benefitting all. Reference material: A list of references, data sources and resources consulted during the assessment process.

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Caff

JUNE 1, 2023

Currently our programming is focused in four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming. Reference requests will be made further along in the application process. We commit to advancing racial, gender, and environmental justice in our larger systems, as well as in our own workplace.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

And at the root of it all is a startling vulnerability: The coffee we cultivate and drink today, which sustains an industry valued at over $100 billion , comes from just two species — and research on others is woefully behind. In the meantime, rising global temperatures are exacerbating threats to production.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

Reflecting on this miraculous process of renewal, American poet, Walt Whitman, expressed awe, bordering on horror, when he wrote: “What chemistry! The disaster , which left over 500,000 Americans homeless, intensified the Great Depression and devastated the region’s ecology.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Currently our programming is focused in four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming. Reference requests will be made further along in the application process. We commit to advancing racial, gender, and environmental justice in our larger systems, as well as in our own workplace.

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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. Family, land, forest, water and the desire to work — that has been our commitment, and be aware that this is not an overnight process. The most important thing was to recover the water.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Currently, our programming is focused in four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming. Reference requests will be made further along in the application process. We commit to advancing racial, gender, and environmental justice in our larger systems, as well as in our own workplace.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 12, 2025

Starting in the 1970s, through her groundbreaking nutritional ecology class at Teachers College within Columbia University, and through books like The Feeding Web: Issues in Nutritional Ecology , she transformed our view of food from something enjoyed at the end of a fork to the entire system that created the mouthful.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 11, 2024

But finalizing the plan has been a slow process. Photo credit: Emma Glassman-Hughes) The slow-moving harbor plan is just the beginning of a long reconciliation process that may or may not come. At right, an example of a privatized water access point in the resort community of New Seabury.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2023

Hailing from a commercial lobstering family in Maine, Patryn sees cultivating this marine crop as a lifeline for a community threatened by fishing’s uncertain future. In response, cultivators are calling for more policies to govern their business and protect waterways and marine ecosystems. in the four years since its founding.

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