Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 10, 2024

In 2021, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) published a major report on plastic use in farming. Farmers once used straw or other organic matter instead of plastic mulch. Find it on our podcast page along with more conversations with leading figures from the world of sustainable food and farming.

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Caff

JANUARY 24, 2024

Some get food by living intertwined with plants or animals. These fungi are most often parasitic (stealing food in the form of sugars) to the detriment of the host) or symbiotic (a mutually beneficial relationship). A participant breaks open some packed spawn material to spread through the straw.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Our next post in the series will explore what the Census shows us about local and regional food systems. The data provided by the Census of Agriculture is an essential and comprehensive tool for all stakeholders to understand what is happening in US agriculture and food.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

The 50 years of farming at Bwlchwernen, according to the interconnected principles of health, ecology and a circular economy, have not only stewarded the farm’s natural biodiversity as a complete and thriving ecosystem, but also created the conditions to increase and improve its biodiversity potential.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

If the emissions aren’t from the shoreline, no amount of straw bales is going to improve the air quality,” says John Gillies, an atmospheric physicist at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada. It’s associated with air quality, ecology, and biologicals in the lake. Water quality isn’t just water quality.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

When two small Western grass-fed beef brands combined forces in the name of growth in fall 2022, Jeff “Trip” Tripician was tapped to lead the newly formed company, Grass Fed Foods. How do you do that and create ecological change, economic value, and social benefit? But they have to be big. Do not bring me a small ranch,” he said.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology estimates that “One teaspoonful of topsoil contains around 1 billion microscopic cells and around 10,000 different species.” The post More things in Heaven and Earth: Mycorrhizal fungi, ploughing, no-till and glyphosate first appeared on Sustainable Food Trust.

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