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Women Innovators for Small Farm Technology

Caff

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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Farm to Market Coordinator – Bilingual

Caff

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. for partners and farmers statewide.

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Foodshed Cooperative Is Growing San Diego’s Small-Farm Economy

Civil Eats

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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Can a Farm Generate Solar Power and Blueberries at Once?

Daily Yonder

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. Still, there were bright spots among the findings.

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Food Systems 101: How Community Colleges Are Helping Students Connect Farm to Fork

Modern Farmer

Those cows are just one part of the closed-loop system the college aims to highlight in its new farm-to-fork program that is rolling out this school year. million grant for its soon-to-come vertical farming, hydroponics and plant-based culinary arts programs. Bergen Community College was one of the grant recipients, receiving a $4.5-million

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Sneaking Snake Onto the Menu

Modern Farmer

Snake farming is common in some Asian countries, such as China and Thailand, and certain snakes are considered a delicacy (often, python species, due to their quick-growing nature). A study published in Nature seems to find few faults in wide-scale snake meat farming projects. Photography via Shutterstock/Paul Harding.

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Farm to Market Coordinator, Bilingual – San Joaquin Valley

Caff

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.