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Bringing Back the (Flax) Fields of Gold

Modern Farmer

Farmer Jeremy Dunphy stands next to his four-acre test plot, brimming with flax as a cover crop, sharing what he’s learned with a crowd of 20 farmers, textile artists, designers, and educators. What they need is a supply chain and market that can handle the harvest. Dunphy is part of the PA Flax Project , founded in 2020.

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Meet the Refugee Farmers Raising the Crops of Their Homelands From Texas Soil

Modern Farmer

Krishna Bista grew up on a diversified farm in her native Bhutan, where her family cultivated sweet potatoes, ginger, corn, wheat, millet, citrus and cardamom. For Doli Wikongo, a refugee farmer employee who grew up cultivating bananas and rice in her native Congo, New Leaf has been a lifeline. Wikongo and Bista oversee the farm crew.

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Profile: Grayson LandCare – Incubating Rural Innovation

Daily Yonder

Instead of applying industrial chemicals to amend soils or introducing irrigation to regulate crop growth, permaculture gardening is an adaptive, self-regenerative, and diversity-driven approach in food production and pollinator habitat cultivation. Grayson LandCare Members bring in a harvest from the Permaculture Garden.

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The Future of Seaweed Farming in America

Civil Eats

Seaweed naturally absorbs carbon as it grows, but unless it is harvested, it decomposes and releases carbon back. 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. All commercial seaweed farms are on land.

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PART 2: 13 SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES FOR A HEALTHY PLANET

Sustainable Harvest International

This Earth Day, Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) has curated a second compilation of thirteen impactful practices and daily routines that, when adopted, nurture our planet and preserve it for future generations. Over time, conventional agricultural methods lead to soil degradation, threatening our ability to cultivate food.