Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

The Food Bank works with almost 700 community-based nonprofit partners to distribute more than 9 million meals across metro Atlanta and north Georgia every month. Food Well Alliance Food Well Alliance brings together leaders of the local food movement to support more than 300 community gardens, urban farms, and orchards in metro Atlanta.

Cultivation 105

Cultivation Food Marketing Distribution 105

Modern Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

He’s tinkered with different irrigation systems, moving from a sub-surface drip setup to his current above-ground micro-sprayer, which he says has the best distribution of water with the least waste. There’s also the loss of farmland due to a confluence of factors. My orchard has a lot of trees,” says Paddock. “I’m

Orchard 97

Orchard Crop Family Farming Farming 97

Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2024

This relationship becomes especially interesting when business is booming—when the plants are delivering a lot of carbon into the soil that is used to build larger and larger fungal networks while distributing carbon across the soil profile. He mostly grows salad greens across 3 acres of farmland.

Farming 144

Farming Farming Crop Agriculture 144

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7 Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s. Today, the approximately 40,000 Black farmers remaining in America own less than 1 percent of the countrys farmland. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Caff

JANUARY 26, 2022

Together, they’re safeguarding affordable access to the farmland by providing a long-term lease to Mountain Bounty so that it continues to produce local, organic food in an ecologically responsible way for generations to come. But with heart a’plenty, that’s exactly what the the Mendo-Lake Food Hub is doing.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Orchard Food 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 15, 2023

In March, California’s barrage of atmospheric rivers overwhelmed the area, flooding pistachio orchards and swamping communities, and Allensworth found itself all but surrounded by a shallow sea. They arrived here and they started grabbing the snow melt out of those rivers, and then diverting that onto their farmland.”

Farmland 52

Farmland Farming Farming Orchard 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Westlands Water District was formed to distribute that water to 600,000 acres of land. Growers now are ripping out some of those parched orchards. President Kennedy himself showed up for the groundbreaking. The new canal delivered water from dams hundreds of miles to the north, like Shasta and Trinity.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Distribution Acre 52