Far Eastern Agriculture

JUNE 28, 2024

Bluewhite's unique technology and proven capabilities in orchards and vineyards helps New Holland customers address immediate challenges, such as labor shortages and rising operational costs in the specialty crop market. New Holland aims to bring autonomous solutions across all segments it serves, particularly in the speciality crop market.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 5, 2023

By Rowan Jacobsen , July 24, 2019 An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees By Paige Embry , June 20, 2019 In January, with the almond bloom in California’s orchards a month away, beekeepers across the country were fretting over their hives. By Brian Barth , March 23, 2020 Are we handling the bee crisis all wrong?

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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. My orchard has a lot of trees,” says Paddock. “I’m It’s all in an effort to build up his soil health. “My

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RR2CS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Today, the idea has taken root: they’ve expanded their business into Solstice Berry Farm, a 40-acre orchard, managing 10 acres for a U-Pick operation and 30 acres for commercial production. The airflow is important for the orchard.” The Saskatoons grown in commercial orchards are the same as their wild counterparts.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The nimble group of New Orleans urban farmers and food justice advocates travels directly to farms across Louisiana to offer funds, lend tools, rehome animals, organize volunteers, distribute food, and help farmers with post-disaster paperwork.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 3, 2023

What are the skillsets, knowledge, experiences, and resources that the community could contribute to a forest garden or community orchard? American Forests has a tool called the Tree Equity Score, which tells you how evenly distributed trees are in your city and your specific neighborhood. What about forest gardens gets people excited?

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World Agri-Tech

MAY 30, 2023

Tevel’s autonomous harvesting system was deployed in Unifrutti Chile’s apple orchards from March to May, harvesting several varieties of apples and picking the highest-quality fruit with unparalleled efficiency. The face of the fruit industry in Chile is being revolutionized as A.I.-driven driven robots picking apples in Linares.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 17, 2023

He says the labor and lessons of his ancestors are in the soil and the grapevines and orchards, and he’s passing these on to the next generations. Matsumoto in an orchard he planted with his father. Mas is an author, too, who has delved into the stories of his farm and family in more than 10 books. Photo by Lisa Morehouse.

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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. But they’ve since increased it to 10 percent to 12 percent in some areas.

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Caff

JANUARY 26, 2022

Launched in 2015, the hub has provided small farmers access to a shared sales and distribution network serving wholesale buyers like grocery stores, schools, and restaurants, all with a mission of increasing the economic viability of local agriculture and increasing local food access in their community.

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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. His grandfather, Grover, was the only one who elected to stay and farmand as a result (to the dismay of his siblings), he inherited a sum of more than $100,000.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The brewery is located on a small but busy farm with apple orchards, market gardens, two greenhouses, an apiary, and a flock of chickens. Proof & Company, Singapore In partnership with ecoSPIRITS , Proof & Company distributes 14 of its spirits in Singapore using circular packaging.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The FAM depicts nearly 1,000 assets, ranging from urban farms, community orchards, and gardens to food assistance programs, school breakfast programs, and grocery stores. From Oregon Food Bank’s five main locations, food is distributed to communities across Oregon and Southwest Washington State. In 2023, there were 1.9

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Caff

JULY 19, 2021

The Ecological Farming program area works with farmers, researchers and technical assistance providers in central and northern California to carry out projects including: Small-scale Biointensive No-till Vegetable production; Integrated Crop Livestock Systems; Cover Cropping; and Biologically Integrated Orchard Systems.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

Food grown in local fields, orchards, and pastures with healthy soil management practices simply make for healthier, more nutritious, and more flavorful meals, he says—the perfect ingredients for changing the “stigma” associated with hospital fare.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 21, 2022

By Rowan Jacobsen , July 24, 2019 An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees By Paige Embry , June 20, 2019 In January, with the almond bloom in California’s orchards a month away, beekeepers across the country were fretting over their hives. By Brian Barth , March 23, 2020 Are we handling the bee crisis all wrong?

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 11, 2023

By Rowan Jacobsen , July 24, 2019 An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees By Paige Embry , June 20, 2019 In January, with the almond bloom in California’s orchards a month away, beekeepers across the country were fretting over their hives. By Brian Barth , March 23, 2020 Are we handling the bee crisis all wrong?

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

By Rowan Jacobsen , July 24, 2019 An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees By Paige Embry , June 20, 2019 In January, with the almond bloom in California’s orchards a month away, beekeepers across the country were fretting over their hives. By Brian Barth , March 23, 2020 Are we handling the bee crisis all wrong?

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Farmbrite

APRIL 25, 2023

It's often used in greenhouses and nurseries, but it can also be used in vegetable gardens, flower gardens , orchards and even trees. Flood irrigation Flood irrigation is the method of distributing water over an entire field at one time. Drip tape and tubing Drip tape and tubing are used in drip irrigation systems.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

Each of TFFJ’s farms produces thousands of pounds of vegetables every year, including spinach, lettuce, and cucumbers, which are used in cafeterias or distributed to students’ families and the surrounding community. Of course, Soll said the organization does believe the production at each farm also needs to be high enough to have an impact.

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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.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

the Osage Nation’s community orchard. As in other regions, the impacts are distributed disproportionately, with Indigenous populations especially affected by struggles with water availability. Beyond the agriculture chapter, each of the regional chapters also puts a spotlight on both the inequities built into U.S.

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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. Residents were told to evacuate. They were also told that this flood was just the beginning.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2023

A disused orchard that had been stewarded by the Sisters of St. Here are snapshots from those visits: Members toured Sister Gardens, one of three sites that are part of Frontline Farming, based in Denver, CO, Sister Gardens is a vegetable, herb, and flower garden on more than one acre of land within the Aria Denver development.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 29, 2023

It then distributes the co-op products to low-income people, especially to many ndigenous Mixtec and Triqui families. Ana Lopez inspects a tree seedling in a Tierra y Libertad orchard. At the same time, with C2C’s help, the co-op began working with the local food bank. It pays a premium for berries—$4.75

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

“A lot has to go into the planning of where the food forest is, when the fruits are harvestable, and whether the harvestable fruits are equitably distributed.” She pointed to the Philadelphia Orchard Project as an emblem of success.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 16, 2024

By the time the Nüümü returned to their valley, the settlers had turned it into a constellation of cattle ranches and orchards. Some Nüümü found jobs as farm laborers and ranch hands, and by the early 1900s a small group had used the federal government’s Indian allotment system to recover some of the land and water they’d lost.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Even monarch butterflies have lost habitat due to the prevalence of monocrop avocado orchards, along the once lush, biodiverse hillsides of Michoacán in Mexico. Choose one from Chile and you might be furthering the extraction of much-needed fresh water.” Yet Eldridge is far from calling for an avocado boycott.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

Before 7 th October 2023 , farms and orchards covered almost half of Gaza’s total land area and more than 7,500 greenhouses contributed to an agricultural sector normally worth over $575m a year. A young farmer called Yousef, whose farm was destroyed in recent bombings, has already begun distributing heirloom seedlings.

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Farmbrite

JANUARY 31, 2025

The CSA allows producers to sell directly to consumers without a middle entity, which translates to less money invested in distribution and more affordable prices for the consumer. Some farms, orchards, ranches, etc. How are Community Supported Agriculture Shares Distributed? Here are the most popular methods.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The rest is distributed to nearby urban and suburban areas in Yolo and Sacramento counties through food programs and community supported agriculture (CSA) subscription boxes—25 percent of it for free. Orchards and other perennials, for example, make more sense when you own your own land because they can take a while to mature.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 28, 2025

Afterward, they turn the herd out onto organically managed pasture, where the animals eat freely from clover, alfalfa, and a blend of perennial grasses like meadow bromegrass, orchard grass, and fescue. Their got a minute? check-ins often turn into half-hour conversations on the finer points of rotational grazing or organic pest treatments.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 20, 2023

an hour for his work in the mango orchards. They have merged with a flow of Central and South Americans—Hondurans, Salvadorans, and Venezuelans—fleeing gang violence, natural disasters (whose frequency and intensity have increased due to climate change), and the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic. Jones Carme said he was paid $1.25

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 23, 2025

From Californias strawberry fields to Floridas orange orchards, at least 70 percent of the agricultural workers who harvest our crops were born outside the U.S. If you are interested in republishing or reposting this article, please contact info@thefern.org. food system is propped up by low-wage immigrant workers from farm to table.

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