Ecology Farmland Pesticide 
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. An Arizona Walnut tree.
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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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.
National Young Farmers Coalition
OCTOBER 11, 2023
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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 Organic farming is done with no synthetic fertilizers or pesticides. “We We see the ecological benefits and values of producing organically,” LaPointe said. “It Progress was gradual, LaPointe said.
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.
Caff
OCTOBER 26, 2023
Organic farming offers synergistic economic, environmental, and social benefits as it creates opportunities for farmers to sell at premium price, reduces negative impacts on soil and water quality, and produces nutritious food for the community that is not treated with synthetic pesticides.
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