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Guest Post: Is the Future of Organic Food at Risk? Research Funding Holds the Answer

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

They offer valuable resources and practical solutions for organic and transitioning producers, as well as conventional producers interested in ecologically and economically sound practices. New organic crop and whole-rotation budgeting tools to help new and aspiring organic farmers assess and manage the economic risks of organic transition.

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The Farmers Leaning On Each Other’s Tools

Civil Eats

For three years, Nathanael Gonzales-Siemens drove up California’s coast for 14 hours every month for a routine task: milling his grain into flour. “I We’ve got 150 acres of grain.” He found this disconcerting, not only for himself but the future of small-scale grain farming in California, once known for its golden hills of grain.

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20 Sustainable Sips to Cheer For

Food Tank

Boochcraft partners with The Ecology Center for the advancement of regenerative agriculture. In order to preserve the cooperative and the future of the families it supports, Garibaldi strives to be “socially fair, ecologically correct, economically viable and culturally diverse,” according to their website. Martinique Rhum J.M

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Profile: Grayson LandCare – Incubating Rural Innovation

Daily Yonder

Permaculture means that gardeners work with existing ecological conditions in a specific place. Inspired by the region’s tradition with apple orchards, another farmer worked with GLC to establish a new apple orchard with a long-term goal for a cidery. So Grayson LandCare was happy to help this member estalish an orchard.”

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On the Ground with the Midwest Farmers Going All-In On Agroforestry

Modern Farmer

They ate grains that couldn’t be sold.” Photos courtesy of Wendy Johnson) The sheep were getting sick from eating too much grain, so Johnson worked to reestablish a natural savanna, a mixed woodland and grassland ecosystem that had once been prevalent on Iowa’s landscape but was destroyed by grazing and row crops. Johnson laughs.

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Building Resilience Through the Conservation Stewardship Program

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

CSP pays producers to improve, maintain, and actively manage conservation activities already in place at the time of application and to adopt new conservation activities during the life of the five-year contract.

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Organic Farming for Ecosystem Biodiversity & Diversity – Larchgrove Farm, Barrhead County

RR2CS

Many of our neighbours who have larger farms — grain and cattle — they’ve had to sell out and move because of flood years, drought years, and this increasingly warming trend we’re seeing.” For example, if you want to put an orchard in an area with heavy clay or muskeg, it won’t work.

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