Modern Farmer

JUNE 27, 2024

At Modern Farmer, we believe that creating a sustainable and equitable food system is only possible with small, local, and family farms. The average farmer is just under 60 years old, and the trend of inheritance within families is declining, which means there is a need to train the next generation of farmers.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

A farmer then cultivates that plot of land before leaving it fallow for seven-to-ten-year cycles. The type of rotational farming that Hin Lad Nai engages in, which includes what is sometimes known as slashing and burning, did not originally fit with the Thai government’s conservation strategy.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 28, 2023

Award Highlights NSAC congratulates all LCM recipients, including the following NSAC members: California Alliance of Family Farms (CAFF) , World Farmers , Cultivate Kansas City , Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA (RAFI-USA) , Maine Farmland Trust , Agrarian Trust , and Land Stewardship Project (LSP).

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Whether we live on farms or in small towns, suburbs or big cities, we can connect with the earth where we are. That may be on a farm or it may be in a backyard, a community garden or an urban park. In various settings, we can work to cultivate affection and fidelity. Sunset over a farm in Marshall County, Tennessee.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

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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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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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

I should mention that our farm was, and still is, a family farm in the strongest sense. A childhood photo from the family farm. Whether it’s a farm or an urban park, a community garden, or a tree planted in the sidewalk, we’d do well to cultivate these connections with, and affection for, place.

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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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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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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Those include multi-generation family farms or beginning farmers that are adopting agroforestry or farmers transitioning from annual production to perennial production. In addition, USDA-supported agroforestry practices include efforts to mitigate soil erosion and protect waterways.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 23, 2024

Department of Agriculture, 98% of all farms in the U.S. are family farms, with nearly 90% of those considered small family farms. A small family farm is an agriculture enterprise whose gross cash farm income does not exceed $350,000 annually. According to the U.S

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

(Photo courtesy of Lerda-Goni Farms) Since the 1983 flood, changes in farming patterns have also raised the basin’s economic risk, he notes. Orchards, vines and other perennials cultivated as long-term investments have steadily replaced ephemeral crops such as tomatoes and cotton, which are far less costly to sacrifice or replace.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Through the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), Carney Family Farms in Iowa has received funding for watering, waterways, field buffers, and no-till practices. The farm is profiled along with other conservation-minded farmers here. A move toward rotational grazing also inspired John Bell’s application for support from EQIP.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

A typical farm in the foothills of the Amazon in southern Caquetá. As one gets closer to the Quimbayo Gutiérrez family farm, the landscape begins to change. Family, land, forest, water and the desire to work — that has been our commitment, and be aware that this is not an overnight process. Image by Antonio Paz.

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CalCAN

AUGUST 15, 2023

CalCAN is one of hundreds of sustainable, organic, and family farming organizations across the country that is engaged in farm bill advocacy this year. Sponsors: Representatives Dan Newhouse (WA-04), Jimmy Panetta (CA-19), and Chellie Pingree (ME-01) See here for more information.

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Caff

JANUARY 27, 2021

Awards will be bestowed during the conclusion of the California Small Farm Conference on February 28, a free event featuring keynote speaker, Nikki Silvestri. LEGACY FARMER Will Scott, Scott Family Farms Will Scott Jr. started farming as a form of self-transformation and restoration.

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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

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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Modern Farmer

JULY 4, 2024

The post Young Farmers Cultivating Change appeared first on Modern Farmer. AKreGeneration is committed to restoring the land for generations to come, acre by AKre. Find farmers that will spend time talking or working with you so you can learn different practices and principles; everyone does things different. Nothing happens in a hurry.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2023

Francis since 1938, Sister Gardens has become a bustling site of food production and also of reawakened community cultivation.​ Members huddled under a covered pavilion for live music, farm-fresh food, and local brew from Odd13 Brewing , while the rain poured down. A disused orchard that had been stewarded by the Sisters of St.

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Caff

MAY 24, 2022

Fresno Freedom School About: Fresno Freedom School is an urban vegetable farm and job-skills program investing in Fresno’s African-American youth. Luna's Farm About : Luna’s Farm is a multi-generational Latinx family farm growing organic vegetables in California’s Central Coast region. Farmers: Dr. Floyd D.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Black Urban Growers (BUGs) , United States BUGs is committed to fostering a strong, supportive community for cultivators in both urban and rural settings, while empowering Black leadership in agriculture. With a commitment to restoring ancestral knowledge, Soul Fire Farm fosters healing, community empowerment, and ecological sustainability.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Brazil’s national requirement that 30 percent of school food ingredients be sourced from local and regional family farms helps empower and fund women agroecological producers. Could cultivating it offer me an opportunity to make up for all that had not passed down to me?” Meanwhile, in the U.S.,

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In 2014, the amount of land devoted to tobacco cultivation, as a portion of all U.S. Will Strader, a county extension director in Rockingham County, North Carolina, who grew up on a tobacco farm, described the situation in 2004 with his father’s words. “He agricultural land, was 0.04 percent and dropping.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 24, 2024

Nine years ago, Rick observed how extreme weather eroded his fields in Indiana, where he cultivated his row crops like corn, alfalfa, and wheat. As a fifth-generation farmer, Rick knew he had to make a change to ensure the family farm’s future. Devastating weather became routine, decimating crops year after year.

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