Cultivation Fertilizer Ruralism 
Food Tank
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
It can also promote healthier soil, reduce pest problems, and boost rural economies. Integrating livestock with crops can create a closed-loop system where manure provides fertilizer and reduces reliance on external inputs. Incorporating indigenous vegetables into our local farming system can disrupt this pattern.
Modern Farmer
JANUARY 15, 2024
Basements and garages have long been fertile ground for innovation, with a host of well-known companies including Apple, Amazon and Harley-Davidson tracing back to humble residential roots. Recently, these unassuming spaces are cultivating a new trend in home-grown businesses.
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ATTRA
DECEMBER 23, 2024
Unlike much of the United States, where farming slows or halts during winter due to cold temperatures and snow, Florida’s mild climate allows for year-round cultivation. Crop rotation enhances soil fertility, minimizes erosion, disrupts pest and disease cycles, and reduces the need for synthetic fertilizers.
Daily Yonder
OCTOBER 29, 2024
They called the plants sisters to reflect how they thrived when they were cultivated together. Displaced from the Land As Euro-Americans settled permanently on the most fertile North American lands and acquired seeds that Native growers had carefully bred, they imposed policies that made Native farming practices impossible.
Food Tank
JANUARY 24, 2024
agriculture, food systems, and rural communities.” Farmers are forced to use increasing amounts of fertilizer to salvage profit from the degraded soil. At the same time, skyrocketing input costs squeeze farmers’ margins, hurting rural economies and jacking up food prices for consumers. As farmers, we are concerned.
Civil Eats
JANUARY 7, 2025
When Michael Kotutwa Johnson goes out to the acreage behind his stone house to harvest his corn, his fields look vastly different from the endless rows you see in much of rural North America. Hopi corn thrives without fertilizers, herbicides, mulch, or irrigation. We dont do your typical 14-inch spaced rows, he says.
NASDA
OCTOBER 5, 2023
We always like to remind our consumers, no matter where they live – in an urban area or a rural area – agriculture is very important to them.” She and her team also engage directly with farmers and ranchers, ensuring that government officials are in-touch with farmers and see their challenges from the field.
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