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.
Agric4profits
NOVEMBER 28, 2024
Cotton is one of the most widely grown and important crops worldwide, providing fiber for clothing, textiles, and other products. Its cultivation has a long history and continues to support millions of farmers globally.
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ATTRA
AUGUST 20, 2024
Together, we can cultivate a fashion industry that honors the health of our planet and the well-being of its people. You can hear more about our work in our Soil-to-Skin podcast series with Seed2Shirt, New York Textile Lab, and Fibershed. Together, we can create a fashion industry that respects our planet and its people.
Ohio State University
OCTOBER 29, 2024
I aspire to become a cultivator grower, developing my organic cannabis strain and distributing it nationwide to dispensaries. I also aim to collaborate with farmers to utilize the cannabis plant for textiles and educate the community on its many benefits—not just as a drug, but as a healing herb, textile resource, and medicinal tool.”
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.
Modern Farmer
MARCH 4, 2024
Her Belgian start-up cultivates mycelium—the thread-like root structure of fungus—using the plastic- and toxin-laden stubs as fodder. A designer by training, Speyer stumbled on fungi while searching for a sustainable and easy-to-cultivate material. Fungi are nature’s recyclers,” says PuriFungi’s Audrey Speyer.
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.
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