National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2023

As founder of the “Once and Future Green”, Michelle trains and consults Frontline communities, governments, and philanthropy to forward community-driven solutions with transformative anti-oppression and ecological design tools. Ollin Farms is run by farmers Kena and Mark who believe deeply in the principles of sustainable agriculture.

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Water Rights Food Farming Farming 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

As many portions of the country cannot transition fully to year-round, grass-based livestock systems, we believe it is vital for funding to be dedicated to AMMP technologies to ensure instances where confinement is likely to continue are as ecologically friendly as they can be.

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Ruralism Food Farming Farming 110

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Yes, I’m currently actively involved in farming, but in defined ways. I’m a beekeeper and I love all those momma bees that go out and gather pollen and nectar on our 15-acre pollinator conservation project as part of our 30-acre family farm. We need a huge paradigm shift in both the philosophy and the practices of farming.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

It connects expertise across disciplines to enhance food security, improve distribution, and position Canada as a leader in agricultural innovation. By combining interdisciplinary research, policy innovation, and collaboration, GFI aims to reimagine how food is grown, distributed, and consumed for a healthier planet and better lives.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

How do you do that and create ecological change, economic value, and social benefit? In the 15 years he spent at Niman Ranch , he increased the network of small family farms raising animals on pasture from 160 to over 850. “We Behind them, green pastures stretched into the distance toward looming, sand-colored peaks.

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Ranching Cattle Production Food 143

RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

We realized that the plant is actually farming the soil, pumping carbon into the soil through its root exudates,” says Tim. The carbon is being used by the microbes—the ecology of the soil—to do all things: build organic matter, soil structure, increase infiltration, and feed life.”

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Prioritizing ecological integrity and community health over yield, these farmers stay profitable by diversifying their crops, producing value-added products like jams and sauces, and building community support and social capital. Does the author ultimately take on the family farm? The read is well worth finding out.

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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. Edition] By Christopher Hart Hedgelands is a delightful paean to a staple of British life and a critical part of the nation’s rural ecology: the hedge.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 10, 2025

And then she saw it, right here on the wall of her childhood home: an aerial photograph of her own familys farm the house, the old barn, the windbreak of redcedar trees, and these same fields in summer green. Almost every farmhouse in America has a photo like this hanging on its walls just another member of the family, as it were.

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Family Farming Farming Farming Ruralism 72