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A Black-Led Agricultural Community Takes Shape in Maryland

Civil Eats

They’ll diversify the farm’s income streams and deposit their nutrient-dense manure across the landscape while pecking at the dirt, stimulating microbes with their beaks. Graham said that 2025 would be a year of testing the waters of collaborative capacity building, joint distribution, and building a food community.

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This Car-Free Michigan Island Is Leading on Composting

Civil Eats

At the island’s solid waste facility—hidden away in the hills and surrounded by forestland—piles of food scraps, manure, and green waste slowly turn to soil. In rural areas, “It is not always cost feasible to go from house to house to collect compost because they are miles away,” she explained. Composting Council.

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Bringing Back Local Milk, Ice Cream, and Cheese

Civil Eats

Since taking over the dairy a decade ago and branding it Foggy Bottoms Boys , the couple has been bucking convention and helping their rural community navigate changing economic tides. A lot of people don’t understand why my cheese costs [four times more than] Walmart’s.” “We’re an important fabric of these rural communities.”

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Q&A: Should Crop Insurance Be Subsidized?

Daily Yonder

Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. I was born and raised in rural southwest Wisconsin, where I attended a high school located in the middle of a 30,000 acre seedcorn field. Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders , an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder.

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Transfarmation: The Movement to Free Us From Factory Farming

Modern Farmer

That day, I’d driven from my home in Atlanta to Craig’s home in rural North Carolina. According to Civil Eats, animal confinement workers are subject to long-term lung and acute respiratory injuries from their work environments and are exposed to asphyxiating gases from manure. I’d failed every previous attempt.

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Producer-led Watershed Groups Making a Difference

Wisconsin Farmers Union

Jim Massey Rural Voices Correspondent During the first year of the Wisconsin Producer-Led Watershed Grant Program in 2016, $242,550 was awarded to 14 groups. Some have joined groups to learn about innovative farming practices such as cover crops, minimum tillage or low-disturbance manure application. She said about $4.2

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Virginia Tech Receives Record $80m Towards Climate-Smart Farming

World Agri-Tech

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences will distribute more than $56 million to producers to enact climate-friendly practices and serve as a pilot program for a national model. According to Thompson, the credit for the pilot concept belongs to RIPE (Rural Investment to Protect our Environment).

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