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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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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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

On the importance of diversity in ecological research. ” The Role of Crop, Livestock, and Farmed Aquatic Intraspecific Diversity in Maintaining Ecosystem Services. Food-sourcing from on-farm trees mediates positive relationships between tree cover and dietary quality in Malawi. Diversity of the research teams, that is.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

For example, soil and vegetation on farms remove carbon from the atmosphere, regulate hydrological flows, and shelter pollinators who pollinate crops. Two-thirds of the fertilizers applied on the farm are not available for the plants due to loss of organic matter. soil health and biodiversity) on their farms.

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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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Real Agriculture

JULY 5, 2024

Farmers and ranchers are responsible for managing the land they own or rent, including ecologically sensitive areas such as riparian areas and wetlands. Read More Farmers and ranchers are responsible for managing the land they own or rent, including ecologically sensitive areas such as riparian areas and wetlands.

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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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Civil Eats

APRIL 7, 2025

Environmental activist and author Robin Greenfield is known for his fully committed experiments in ecological living. Cycle the compost back into small-scale ecological gardening and farming. Join a community-led ecological food initiative. Become a member today and get the next issue directly in your inbox.

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Agric4profits

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Organic farming is an agricultural method that prioritizes sustainability and ecological balance, avoiding synthetic chemicals and genetically modified organisms.

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Caff

APRIL 5, 2024

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Lunatic Farmer

MARCH 13, 2025

Coast Guard officers in charge of this program put Polyface on their itinerary last year as an example of American agriculture ecological entrepreneurism. In farming, who builds soil? We had officers from Mozambique, Madagascar, Italy, Poland, Sri Lanka, Moldives, Mauritania and several other countries. Who has healthy plants?

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The NSAC staff retreat in West Virginia Theres no such thing as a quiet year when it comes to federal food and farm policy, and 2024 proved to be no exception! As the year comes to a close, we are reflecting on the progress we have made toward building a more resilient and equitable farm and food system.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 7, 2025

Farms come in all shapes and sizes, from a thousand-acre field planted in corn to a quarter-acre parcel supporting thirty different types of vegetables. Increasing the types of crops present in an area can provide numerous ecological and economic benefits. Increase Yields More diverse rotations can boost crop yields and resilience.

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Caff

DECEMBER 18, 2024

CAFFs 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.

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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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Photo credit: Matt Ryan/Sandra Wayman Editor’s Note: This blog post is a guest post authored by Gordon Merrick, Senior Policy and Programs Manager at the Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF) and Mark Schonbeck, Research Associate, also at OFRF, which is an NSAC member.

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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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ATTRA

JANUARY 15, 2025

Episode 367: The Farming Systems of Puerto Rico This episode of Voices from the Field explores the ancient Taino Conuco farming systems of Puerto Rico in a conversation between NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Gabriella Soto-Velez and researcher Joseph Navarro.

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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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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.

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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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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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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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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

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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Food Tank

MARCH 19, 2025

Ben Brisbois reveals the less-palatable side of the banana industry, from devastating health impacts of pesticides to imperialism and ecological destruction. His latest book takes a deep dive into the realms of plants, animals, insects, fungi, food, and farms to demonstrate how intertwined carbon is with the human experience.

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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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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 3, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. This is exactly what Jay Fuhrer and the team at the Menoken Farm did starting in 2013. In 2022, the farm averaged 8.7% in some spots.

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Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The more he and his neighbors farmed, the less they grew. They eventually had no option but to stop farming and let the land heal. His farming operation benefited too, with a diverse array of vegetables, fruits, and grains now flourishing in his fields. Abebe’s mantra, “nourish and heal,” is catching hold around the globe.

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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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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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