Food Tank

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Strengthening local economic markets and smallholders access to them creates a mutually generative cycle of food and ecological resilienceessential to strong local incomes and livelihoods. Remember that family farms continue to feed 70 percent of the worlds population. Finance can be inclusive and accessible.

Agroecology 105

Agroecology Marketing Food Finance 105

Modern Farmer

MAY 28, 2024

“Of 400 farms in our county, only five are organic,” says Matt Fitzgerald of Fitzgerald Organics in Hutchinson, Minnesota. His 2,500-acre family farm is patchwork across 40 miles of land the family owns and leases, and grows organic corn, soy, wheat and specialty crops such as beans and peas.

Agriculture 102

Agriculture Agriculture Acre Farming 102

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Those include multi-generation family farms or beginning farmers that are adopting agroforestry or farmers transitioning from annual production to perennial production. Blooming ecological success Maggie Taylor of Delight Flower Farm, a commercial cut-flower farm in Champaign, Ill.,

Farming 84

Farming Farming Crop Production 84

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Gretebeck worked with the Savanna Institute and Bob Micheel of the Natural Resources Conservation Service to help finance the planting of 1,200 trees that included honey locust, black walnut and a poplar hybrid on his property. Elderberry, becoming popular as a hedgerow crop, provides both farm income and ecological benefits.

Acre 104

Acre Farming Farming Pasture 104

Caff

APRIL 9, 2024

CAFF’s mission is to build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities, and ecosystems. As a farmer-serving organization, we recognize the historic and lasting inequities in the California food and farming system.

Cultivation 52

Cultivation Finance Food Farming 52

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.”

Ranching 52

Ranching Cattle Crop Acre 52

ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In this video, Michael shares about his early career as a researcher and educator with the Rodale Institute; describes how the gnawing in his gut led him into farming and the move toward more regenerative practices that strengthen biodiversity, build soil health, and sequester carbon; and explains his family’s efforts to mitigate climate change.

Cattle 69

Cattle Pasture Poultry Family Farming 69