Cultivation Seeding Textiles 
Modern Farmer
MARCH 1, 2024
Textiles are a major source of microplastics in the ocean, where they weave their way into the food chain, causing untold harms to marine life. There is nowhere near enough fiber recycling infrastructure in the US, where 85 percent of used clothes and other textiles get sent to the landfill. percent of the world’s farmland but uses 4.7
Modern Farmer
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
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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Modern Farmer
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
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. Flax takes about 100 days to go from seed to harvest, and once planted, it needs little tending. Photography by Zoe Schaeffer.
Daily Yonder
APRIL 3, 2024
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. A mini-grant from GLC helped the farmer add a new ram to his herd to improve bloodlines.
Kavya Organic Farm
JULY 14, 2023
Cultivating Parda Bel: Tips and Tricks Cultivating Parda Bel can be a rewarding experience, bringing the beauty of nature into your own backyard. With these tips in mind, you can cultivate Parda Bel successfully and enjoy its lush beauty as it adorns your garden or outdoor space. How does Parda bel grow from seeds?
Civil Eats
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
In China and Korea, where seaweed farming first developed into a larger industry, governments provide kelp seed to farmers for free or at a subsidized cost. 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.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
He also cultivates 75 acres of wheat, 83 acres of soybeans, 65 acres of corn, and 45 acres of hardwoods and pine trees. Photo credit: Cornell Watson) Ideally, wed get this sweet corn in the ground today, he says, indicating a bag of organic seed and a nearby half-acre plot of loose brown soil. To note: Hemp contains only.3
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