AgriLife Today

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute facilitates private land conservation through the Camp Bullis Sentinel Landscape The post Advancing military readiness and ecological resiliency in the Hill Country appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Title: Ecological Farming Program Specialist I or II Location: California / Hybrid – partially remote option (Davis, CA Region preferred) FTE: 1.0 CAFF is a California-based membership organization that includes family farmers and other community members passionate about local food, farming, and the environment.

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Caff

AUGUST 16, 2024

Samuel Guitron of Gospel Swamp Farm. Emma Centeno and Johnny Wilson at The Ecology Center. In this episode we travel to Southern California to meet with Samuel Guitron of Gospel Swamp Farm in Santa Ana and Johnny Wilson from The Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano to talk all about Integrated Pest Management, or IPM, in urban farms.

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Food Politics

APRIL 25, 2024

Read more However, a new study co-authored by Dr Daniel Natusch and Dr Patrick Aust, among others, has suggested that the commercial farming of snakes could help improve agricultural food security and offer a more sustainable alternative to meats such as beef and pork. To meet wide demand, python farming in the U.S.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 3, 2025

Organic curry farming involves cultivating curry plants without the use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, or genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The focus is on maintaining soil health, enhancing biodiversity, and following sustainable farming practices.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The writer, farmer, and social scientist doesn’t believe that humans need to take themselves out of the natural world to protect it, and he argues for agrarian localism over ecomodernism in his latest book, Saying No to a Farm-Free Future. He hasn’t written much about food and farming in recent years; this was his big food book.

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NASDA

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

These vital programs operate in all fifty states and a failure to fund them in a farm bill or farm bill extension in 2024 negatively impacts countless farmers, ranchers, and food system stakeholders. These critical programs support numerous stakeholders across the U.S.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Ronald Leimgruber farms 3,500 of those acres. Given the lack of rain in the region, Leimgruber says he has “about seven” different irrigation projects on his farm, where he grows an array of crops, including carrots, lettuce, watermelon, and hay. Farming in the Arid West Illustration by Nhatt Nichols. Field and Robert W.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 26, 2023

And over the last year, we’ve covered farming from many angles, from threats to farms and farmworkers—including from the herbicide paraquat, PFAS forever chemicals, and drought-induced air pollution—to ways farmers are improving their soil health and reducing their carbon footprints. Farm Credit Can Make or Break Farms.

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Caff

APRIL 15, 2024

Photo Credit Bonnie Veblen As part of CAFF’s Ecological Farming Program , we collaborate with farmers to implement and better understand ecologically-based farming practices, which include climate smart farming and soil health practices.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

On the surface, the US farm system may seem like a resounding success. Farm income, yields and food availability have all increased tremendously since the inception of the Farm Bill in 1933, in line with its original intent. Right now, the government needs to agree on priorities for the new Farm Bill.

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Caff

APRIL 6, 2023

As a farmer-serving organization, we recognize the historic and lasting inequities in the California food and farming system. Currently our programming is focused in four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming.

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Organic Farming Research

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The post Protected: Respecting the Roots: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Organic Agriculture appeared first on Organic Farming Research Foundation. There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

As the sun beats down from a cloudless morning sky across Horn Farm in York, Pennsylvania, Dick Bono ambles among his pawpaw trees, admiring their pale green fruits like a proud parent. Now, Horn Farm Center runs the show. Dick Bono and his pawpaw trees growing at the Horn Farm Center.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 3, 2024

Forbes declared that, “Urban Farming Has a Shockingly High Climate Cost,” a headline that was outright wrong in terms of the study’s findings. Earth.com led with a single, out-of-context data point: “Urban agriculture’s carbon footprint is 6x greater than normal farms.”

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

To gather that information, the pilot cohort is receiving technical assistance from the IAC team and participating in the Minnesota Farm Business Management Program. Department of Agriculture is investing heavily in new and existing carbon markets designed to reward growers for the carbon they store on their farms.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

About 5 miles off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, a vast swath of giant kelp— Macrocystis pyriferia , which can grow nearly 3 feet per day—sways just below the surface of one of the world’s first open-ocean seaweed farms. seaweed farm of 1 to 4 acres—and a new frontier for ocean farming. seaweed industry.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 7, 2023

After half their farm’s crops were wiped out by a devastating heat wave in 2018, Ellee Igoe and Hernan Cavazos, co-founders of Solidarity Farm, changed their practices with the explicit goal of adding more carbon to the soil, or “carbon farming.” it was more economically viable if we grew that capacity for lots of farms.”

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EOS

MARCH 28, 2024

Aside from soil health, regenerative agriculture has other ecological and farming benefits. These advantages outweigh the short-term hurdles of the transition.

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Western FarmPress

JULY 5, 2024

Ohio Bits: A free tour of organic and ecological farms, plus several educational workshops, are planned.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

CSP for its part helps build on existing conservation already in place on a farm. The farmers spoke in turns detailing how they use these programs on their farms along with their personal stories of how they came to this work. The Phillips’ farm, nestled in the Ozarks in northwest Arkansas, raises livestock.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A cause for controversy Unsurprisingly, it’s an approach that hasn’t been particularly well received by the hill farming community. It’s a frustrating situation, not least because most people probably agree that there is space for hill farming and rewilding to coexist.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 7, 2025

Organic Moringa farming focuses on growing Moringa trees using natural and sustainable practices. Organic Moringa farming promotes soil health, biodiversity, and ecological balance. By adopting organic farming practices,… Read More » Complete Practical Guide on Organic Moringa Farming

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 27, 2024

food system, we’ve seen firsthand how complex, often sobering stories about challenges in food and farming come to life when they include real people trying to fix problems at the local level. A Community of Growers How East New York Farms builds food security and provides jobs for its neighborhood.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 7, 2025

Organic squash farming focuses on growing squash without synthetic chemicals, fertilizers, or pesticides. Organic farming practices emphasize soil health and biodiversity. Organic squash farming encourages sustainable practices that maintain ecological balance.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 31, 2024

This episode of Voices from the Field is an inspiring conversation with a trailblazer in ecological agriculture. Christopher’s journey post-Groundswell led him to establish Aegis Conservation Ecology and Regenerative Development, a consulting firm at the forefront of promoting ecological agriculture and regenerative development.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This radically seasonal, regional restaurant sources its ingredients exclusively from the ocean, climate-adapted farms, and wild plants of the Mid-Atlantic. Come February, we have this very short farm list. They source sunflower and canola oil from Pennsylvania farms. Toward the end of winter, it gets a little. agriculture.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 3, 2025

Organic apples farming is a sustainable agricultural practice that focuses on growing apples without synthetic chemicals. Organic apples farming prioritizes ecological balance. It uses natural methods to promote soil health, control pests, and maintain biodiversity while yielding high-quality fruits.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 3, 2025

Organic Aloe Vera farming focuses on growing Aloe Vera without synthetic chemicals, ensuring the plant’s natural healing properties remain intact. Organic Aloe Vera farming also prioritizes biodiversity, promoting ecological balance and reducing the negative impact of pesticides.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 5, 2024

There's a lot that goes into farming and there's a lot to think about before buying land for your farm. Finding the best farmland for your new farm involves several key steps to ensure you choose a location that meets your needs and goals. Consider the size of the land you need based on your farming plans.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Meet the trailblazing women who are revolutionizing technology for small farms, one ingenious solution at a time. Three women are paving the way forward and helping to define what appropriate technology innovation means for the small farm. Rachel is a winner in the Do It Yourself (DIY) category of the Small Farm Innovation Challenge.

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Caff

AUGUST 1, 2023

CAFF’s Ecological Farming team collaborated with nut growers in California’s Central Valley as part of a Healthy Soils Demonstration project from 2019-2022. Do you want to learn more about the ins and outs of planting and managing cover crops from growers with cover crop experience?

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Daily Yonder

MAY 14, 2024

Paul Sweetland brings a bucket-like object with him to work on a blueberry farm in Rockport — not to collect Maine’s hallmark fruit, but to protect his head. That’s because this farm is a little unusual: Looming over the narrow rows of wild blueberries are 8-foot-tall solar panels.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As director of demonstration and on-farm education for the Savanna Institute (SI) , she knows that agroforestry can be a game-changer in fighting climate change and creating healthier food systems. On the demonstration sites, farmers can see examples of successful integration of trees on farms.

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Agric4profits

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Organic catfish farming is a sustainable and eco-friendly approach to raising catfish without the use of synthetic chemicals, antibiotics, or genetically modified organisms. It focuses on creating a natural environment where catfish can thrive while maintaining the ecological balance of the water systems.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth post in a multi-part blog series analyzing the Farm Food and National Security Act of 2024 (FFNSA), which was reported out of the House Agriculture Committee on Friday, May 24. Overall, FFNSA misses the mark and fails to sufficiently address the most fundamental threat to our food and farm system.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

For others, however, the Welsh countryside is a stark reminder of the damage that humans have wreaked upon the land through intensive farming and industry. Graves looks at how the country-wide shift from traditional mixed farms with carefully managed infield-outfield systems to mass livestock farming – primarily of sheep – has taken its toll.

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