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. Some of these, such as food, fiber, and energy, are marketed, and the market compensates farmers. Natural capital and ecosystem services constitute farms’ ecological wealth.

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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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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 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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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

JULY 31, 2024

That day, they’d been out to their four-acre farm and back twice, harvesting a total of 6,300 pounds. Now those bags were ready to be offloaded into a waiting truck and driven 100 miles southwest to their processor, Atlantic Sea Farms (ASF), near Portland, where many of the state’s kelp companies are based. billion market.

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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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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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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. In late July, the pawpaws are fist-sized and hard as a rock, still two months shy of being full-grown and ripe.

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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

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This means rethinking attitudes toward growth, while recognizing water as a fundamental human right and a source of broader ecological health. We’re now in a world, I believe, where the water laws and the markets that encourage farmers to do certain kinds of things are no longer appropriate. What kind of crops are we going to grow?

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Caff

JULY 19, 2021

As a farming serving organization, we recognize the historic and lasting inequities in the California food and farming system. Currently our programming is focused in 4 areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming. See [link] for more information.

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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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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

Before RiCharde and his wife, Anna, took over Good Wheel Farm outside of Asheville in 2019, he managed the livestock operations for another farm in Western North Carolina. Michael RiCharde herds sheep down a slope on Good Wheel Farm in North Carolina, part of the Carbon Harvest carbon market.

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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

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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Editor’s Note: This post is the fifth post in a multi-part series exploring some of the key sustainable agriculture and food systems challenges that the farm bill can address. Other posts explore how the next farm bill can tackle issues in regional market development, crop insurance access, and more.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 11, 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. for partners and farmers statewide.

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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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Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2025

Irrigation and farm equipment also depend on fossil fuels. Mismanaged farm waste on CAFOs has a climate toll as well, responsible for as much as 7 percent of global farming emissions. Fossil fuels have enabled us to soar past our ecological limits.

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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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Caff

JANUARY 30, 2023

The Market Garden Institute, co-founded by Jean-Martin Fortier and Suleyka Montpetit. At The Market Gardener you will find an abundance of course offerings, resources, and inspiration for your small farm. At The Market Gardener you will find an abundance of course offerings, resources, and inspiration for your small farm.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Community Alliance with Family Farmers has announced the 2025 California Farm Champions : individuals, farms, and businesses who are making a positive difference in California. In addition, the Farm Policy Champion of the Year is Assemblymember Lori Wilson and the Farmers Market Champion of the Year is Jaclyn Allen with The Hens Roost.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

On May 1, 2024 – after months of stalled farm bill negotiations on both sides of Capitol Hill – Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) released a detailed section-by-section summary of her farm bill proposal. NSAC will reserve final assessment until the full legislative text becomes available.

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Caff

MARCH 24, 2022

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.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The loss of farmers in Canada is exacerbating these problems, with the farming population shrinking and aging significantly. This trend reveals that few young people from farming families are choosing to stay in farming, and those from non-farming backgrounds face obstacles like high costs and a lack of training.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 20, 2024

347.563.6408 Release: House Farm Bill Misses Opportunity to Move Agriculture Forward Washington, DC, May 20, 2024 – On Friday, May 17, the House Agriculture Committee released the long-awaited Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024 (FFNSA ). The Farm, Food, and National Security Act fundamentally fails to meet the moment.

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Caff

JULY 19, 2023

On June 29th, Lopes Family Farms hosted a field day with Community Alliance with Family Farms (CAFF) in Princeton, CA focused on rice and duck farming, a Biologically Integrated Farming System (BIFS). This system of integrating ducks into rice farming has been effectively used in Asian countries for hundreds of centuries.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

At her 6-acre Sakari Farms outside Bend, Oregon, Schreiner employs traditional ecological knowledge to cultivate regional first foods —foods consumed before European colonialization—and passes that expertise down to Native American youth. Spring Alaska Schreiner, owner of Sakari Farms outside Bend, Oregon.

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Caff

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Kaben Kramer displays his farmers’ market booth. On October 5th, attendees gathered at Riverwood Farm in Biggs, California to listen to Kaben Kramer of Tenderly Rooted tell his story of creating a Direct to Consumer market for his walnuts. per lb, at most, for walnuts during their first year.

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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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Caff

MAY 1, 2023

Emily Ayala and Hanna Kahl introduce CAFF and the Ecological Pest Management Program. Photo by Nolan Kirby) The Community Alliance with Family Farms (CAFF) held a Biologically Integrated Orchard System (BIOS) field day at Chinchiolo Farms on April 20th.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

Since the resurgence of regenerative agriculture, farming has never been sexier. The star-studded film Kiss the Ground , featuring celebrities Woody Harrelson and Tom Brady, put the movement on the map in 2020, claiming that regenerative farming could be the solution to, not the cause of, climate change, biodiversity loss and soil erosion.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund The Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund is a multidisciplinary, cooperative nonprofit ecosystem that aims to regenerate custodial land ownership, ecological stewardship, and food and fiber economies in the American South.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 8, 2024

Earthen ponds at Smoke in Chimneys trout farm. This is part of Walker’s annual maintenance routine at Smoke In Chimneys trout farm, which opened in 2019. Walker also touts Smoke In Chimney’s sustainability versus typical fish-focused commercial aquaculture farms. Smoke in Chimneys trout farm. The limestone aquifer.

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