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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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The environmental and financial problems of the hill farming sector have been written about exhaustively, so I won’t expand on them here – other than to say that while hill farming has a central role to play in socially and ecologically vibrant landscapes, a major shift towards agroecological practices is needed to realise this.

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ATTRA

MARCH 31, 2024

Sol Systems announced a series of sponsorship and research agreements with the American Farmland Trust (AFT) to promote solar development alongside ecosystem-focused land use practices. Additionally, a four-year Research Agreement will study soil health at six solar sites developed and owned by Sol Systems.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

OCTOBER 21, 2024

They can include developer investments in local schools, emergency services, support for farmland preservation, and ecological requirements to the developed sites. They can also think outside of the box. Many CBAs & CBPs include workforce development requirements.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

The isolation of this ecologically rich archipelago of peaks, located in a “sea” of desert that stretches from northern Mexico into southern Arizona, means that plants grow here that don’t grow anywhere else. Up to 40 percent of farmland has been fallowed in some parts of Arizona,” he wrote in an email.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Some midwestern fields are still bordered by hedgerows, but most US farmers don’t plant hedgerows and are skeptical of their benefits , worrying that they might introduce pests or predators to their farmland. “I The biggest benefit of hedgerows is providing wildlife and biodiversity on farmlands,” explains Long.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It was founded in 2013 in the Champaign-Urbana area by a group of researchers, students and farmers that were interested in exploring how perennial agriculture and agroforestry could benefit Midwestern farmlands. Blooming ecological success Maggie Taylor of Delight Flower Farm, a commercial cut-flower farm in Champaign, Ill.,

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Lake Shasta, built in 1945 to meet the needs of six million residents and irrigate a third of California’s farmland is at 33 percent capacity. Without getting into the health tradeoffs, let’s think about the ecological tradeoffs. It’s never been that low since it began filling in 1945. Almonds only grow in hot areas. Cows eat grass.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 23, 2023

Lahaina, the former capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom , was once a thriving, ecologically diverse landscape full of fish ponds and diverse crops that included sweet potatoes, kalo (taro), and ‘ulu (breadfruit). Since the 1950s, we’ve lost about 1 percent of our farmlands annually. It’s just economically restricted.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

The research from the University of Michigan-led study seems to show that fruit and vegetables grown in urban ag have a carbon footprint six times larger than that of “conventionally grown” food (meaning, on rural farmland). However, when you divide a large number (i.e., from U.C.

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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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

As farmland becomes less functional as a result of increasing stresses from drought, floods, pests, and heatwaves, its regulation by diverse organisms becomes ever more important. However, as with all social-ecological systems , change in any part of the system necessarily requires or causes change in other parts of the system.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As Reichl travels the United States, moving from fine dining rooms to rural farmlands, she unveils a series of riveting narratives. Wild Hope An eight-part series, Wild Hope highlights the eco-changemakers who are coming together to restore the planet and protect local ecology. Watch it on Disney+.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Marbleseed National Bison Association National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition Pesticide Action Network (national, and CA, MN, IA, HI) Simple Mills Soil and Water Conservation Society Union of Concerned Scientists Waterkeeper Alliance Wild Farm Alliance Midwest and South Businesses and Organizations Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (NC, SC) (..)

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

In its place, ‘agroecology’ was more explicitly recognised as a broad moniker for a range of practices that are grounded in biological / ecological farming; this has made the term more distinct in its definition. chemically based) farmland in the Green Alliance modelling got some strong push-back from the audience.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 28, 2024

Image courtesy of Mad Agriculture Multi-year credit helps established farms Recently, Fitzgerald Organics acquired 140 acres of farmland, and needed financing to transition the plots to organic, as well as implement cover crops and plant pollinator strips.

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The Equation

APRIL 3, 2023

My answer regarding agricultural and ecological droughts is a bit more complicated, as farmers and environmentalists alike continue to advocate for more water to be allocated to their causes, making it evident that our current and projected water supply is still insufficient. Snow Water Equivalent in California Sierra Nevada.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

Over at Tool Legit, the farmers share similar goals of farming ecologically and productively at a human scale, which lends to knowledge-sharing, too. “It Whelan hopes to one day own her own farm in Connecticut, the state that she notes has some of the most expensive farmland in the country.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

Transforming the food and farming system through the above domains as well as through crop insurance, agroforestry, organic farming, farmland protection, pasture-based systems, conservation set-asides, manure management, and agrivoltaic systems, the bill creates a clear focus on farm and food system resilience.

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Caff

JANUARY 26, 2022

Together, they’re safeguarding affordable access to the farmland by providing a long-term lease to Mountain Bounty so that it continues to produce local, organic food in an ecologically responsible way for generations to come.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 9, 2024

It does this by providing farmers with financial and technical assistance to actively manage, maintain, and expand conservation activities – like cover crops, rotational grazing, ecologically-based pest management, buffer strips, and the transition to organic farming – even while they work their lands for production.

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Caff

JULY 28, 2024

In March, I got to participate in a two-day workshop with the Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation teaching private landowners pile burning for ecological health. Pile burning is a very controlled fuels management practice that can be implemented during wetter, colder months when broadcast burning would be ineffective and produce too much smoke.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

After the land-back policy was adopted in 2012, the tribe gradually began bidding for and winning small leases on farmland. “It We see the ecological benefits and values of producing organically,” LaPointe said. “It And, through Ho-Chunk Farms, the Winnebago Tribe now is one of the largest producers of organic crops in the region.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

This is because productive arable farmland, that could be used for growing food to be fed directly to people, is used for growing lower grade livestock cereals, from which only 17-30% of calories are returned for human consumption as meat or milk. The more cereals that are fed to an animal, the less resource efficient its milk or meat is.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 20, 2024

It also removes the guiding purpose of ensuring farmland is usable by the next generation. The Chairman’s proposal fundamentally damages CRP’s ability to address environmental concerns generally, and water quality concerns specifically. 2101) Dramatically increases support for precision agriculture technologies.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 17, 2023

It will preserve farmland and grow food to feed people. The project’s planners, Bt Farms Foundation , is a diverse team led by Black women with expertise in design, landscape architecture and urban planning, urban agriculture, ecology, geography, real estate, finance and engineering. Credit: Wisconsin State Journal.

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Caff

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Another challenge comes from the fact that Kaben leases a portion of the farmland from larger family owned property. The most obvious barrier for many small farmers in becoming Certified Organic is the financial cost.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

I lived around farmland and was surrounded by farmers,” says Tim. “I 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.” The benefits aren’t just financial, says Tim, but ecological.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Ecological Impacts of Corn Production and the Ethanol Market Tyler Lark is a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), where he leads research on U.S. agricultural land use and its interactions with our nation’s land and water resources.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. To understand the fescue-native debate requires an understanding of the ecological tradeoff between warm- and cool-season grasses. Nature’s design is not for monocultures.”

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

Many have pointed out that using productive farmland for financial gain rather than producing food may not be the best result for farmers or the environment, if we then need to import more of our food from areas where we have no ecological control.

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RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

In 2006, they began to look for farmland around Edmonton, but the exorbitant cost of land — in some areas, upward of a million dollars — was insurmountable on teacher’s salaries. For Jenna and Thomas, both teachers by trade, it was always a dream to build a life off-grid and grow organic food for their community.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A few years back, while building a fence on her farmland, Hemmes suffered her first bout of on-the-job heat exhaustion. Women pastoralists in particular are entirely left out of these policy spaces, said Rabari, which isnt just an issue of exclusion but means their unique ecological knowledge is lost, too.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Not all farmland is created equal,” says Jesse Womack, a conservation policy specialist with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC). Photography submitted by Delta Farmland & Wildlife Trust. In general, permanently retiring farmland has much better benefits for the climate than even working lands with conservation.”

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Irrigated crops receive higher payouts than dryland crops, while farmers often risk their coverage to engage in some of the most ecologically sound practices. Even though what we’re doing is absolutely [moving in] the right direction, ecologically and long-term economically, it’s not doable if you’re following the rules.”

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Caff

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

We are working on this issue in two ways – first through our Ecological Farming program where we work directly with farmers, conducting on-farm trials to implement and investigate ecological farming practices. Climate change is a major priority of CAFF’s.

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