Agric4profits

JANUARY 3, 2025

Organic apples farming prioritizes ecological balance. Farmers avoid synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, instead using organic alternatives such as compost, cover crops, and… Read More » Complete Practical Guide on Organic Apples Farming

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 3, 2025

Organic Aloe Vera farming also prioritizes biodiversity, promoting ecological balance and reducing the negative impact of pesticides. Organic methods promote healthy soil, beneficial for both the plant and the environment.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

There, she’s using her vast ecological expertise to develop curriculum for the Indigenous Food Lab training center and lead community engagement programming. “As Why is traditional ecological knowledge so important as it relates to both food sovereignty and climate change? Let’s back up a bit.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Agricultural run-off, including soil erosion, nutrient loss from fertilizers and animal manure, bacteria from animal manure and pesticides are the largest stressors to water quality of America’s streams and rivers. These crops are also the largest consumer of increasingly scarce river water in the Western United States.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

But intensive agricultural practices prevalent since the Green Revolution began in the 1960s in India suppressed many ecosystem services and threatens India’s food, ecological, and nutritional security. Natural capital and ecosystem services constitute farms’ ecological wealth. percent in 1947 to 0.4

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 29, 2023

Click Here to buy Bird Feeders to attract Birds to your lawns Chemical Control: Pros and Cons Chemical control measures for worms in lawns do exist, but they should be used with caution due to potential environmental and ecological impacts. Chemical pesticides may harm beneficial earthworm populations and other non-target organisms.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

Agricultural runoff from both valleys is the primary input into the Salton Sea, and with that runoff comes pesticides and nutrients such as phosphorous and nitrogen. Imperial County residents were exposed to over 1,200 pounds of pesticides—via the air, water, and on the plants themselves—per square mile from 2017-2019. In 2002, U.S.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Strengthening local economic markets and smallholders access to them creates a mutually generative cycle of food and ecological resilienceessential to strong local incomes and livelihoods. Local manufacturing of bio-inputs including fertilizers, bio- pesticides, and inoculants is booming.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 5, 2024

An ecological graveyard. First, stop using chemical pesticides. She says that commercial pesticides contain toxins harmful to humans as well. “The more I read about these native bees and plants and ecosystems, the more I realized that the reason why pollinators were so in decline is because they lost habitat,” says Montoya.

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Caff

MAY 1, 2023

Emily Ayala and Hanna Kahl introduce CAFF and the Ecological Pest Management Program. Emily Ayala, CAFF’s Ecological Farming Program Manager, kicked off the event by introducing CAFF and highlighting CAFF’s many different program areas.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

But she maintains that “organic is still really important,” and that’s why USDA organic standards, food grown without most pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, is the minimum baseline for the ROC certification. For livestock farmer and Land to Market certified producer Reuben Hendricks of Cabriejo Ranch , good ecology is good for business.

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Caff

JULY 18, 2024

On June 3rd, CAFF’s Ecological Pest Management team co-hosted a field day at Il Fiorello Olive Oil Co in Fairfield, CA. CAFF’s Ecological Pest Management team takes a holistic approach to managing pests that includes a suite of practices which farms and ranches can employ based on their own unique needs and circumstances.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This translates to healthier food and a healthier environment and reduces reliance on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. They offer valuable resources and practical solutions for organic and transitioning producers, as well as conventional producers interested in ecologically and economically sound practices.

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Caff

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Photo by Nolan Kirby) Hanna Kahl, CAFF’s Ecological Pest Management Specialist, kicked off the event by introducing CAFF and the BIOS project. Her research, spurred by her dedication to not spray pesticides, led her to FoamStream, which seemed promising as an organic spot-treatment for some of those tougher weeds on her farm.

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Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

It sits alongside the Belize Northeastern Biological Corridor, which connects various ecological reserves and allows for safe passage of wildlife like jaguars and pumas. The ecological farming practices SHI partner farmers use provide even more habitat for wildlife and contribute to national conservation efforts.

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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. An Arizona Walnut tree. Photo CC-licensed by Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University.)

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

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. Who manages land determines which scientific perspectives, crop choices, traditions, and skills shape the landscape, with profound implications for its ecological sustainability.

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Sustainable Harvest International

JULY 19, 2022

Of course, the agrochemical companies and their apologists have a profit motive to make us believe we can’t produce enough food without synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. As the name implies, this is a no-cost system relying on ecological processes to produce the same yields as more expensive conventional systems. Among the 12.6

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The Equation

MAY 15, 2023

This system provides little to no flexibility for producers to diversify their land using ecological principles that have positive environmental effects, which leaves today’s farms particularly vulnerable to the consequences of climate whiplash.

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 29, 2023

Click Here to buy Bird Feeders to attract Birds to your lawns Chemical Control: Pros and Cons Chemical control measures for worms in lawns do exist, but they should be used with caution due to potential environmental and ecological impacts. Chemical pesticides may harm beneficial earthworm populations and other non-target organisms.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Whatever little bit of land you have, no matter how small it is, is this amazing opportunity to really help these creatures thrive,” says Deb Landau, director of ecological management for The Nature Conservancy Maryland/DC chapter. I can’t say enough about the importance of minimizing the use of pesticides.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 9, 2024

In Mexico, as in the rest of the modern world, biologically diverse traditional agriculture is increasingly being crowded out by hybrid and genetically modified crops that can withstand heavy applications of industrial herbicides and pesticides. A kaleidoscope of native corn varieties, plus colorful beans in a range of shades.

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Caff

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Hanna Kahl, CAFF’s Ecological Pest Management Specialist, started by welcoming attendees and sharing the history of the BIOS project which began in the 1990s and restarted in 2020. The BIOS project encourages farmers to implement a whole systems approach to orchard management that enables farmers to reduce chemical pesticide inputs.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

By reconnecting with food, with ecology, with living soil, we connect to climate solutions and help to reverse the damages of climate change. I see that shift happening already on farms both urban and rural, big and small. Laney Siegner is founder and Co-director of Climate Farm School, with a Ph.D. from U.C.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2023

National Businesses and Organizations American Sustainable Business Network Amphibian and Reptile Conservancy California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF) Carbon180 Defenders of Wildlife Earthjustice Environmental Policy Innovation Center Environmental Working Group Farm Aid HEAL Food Alliance Healthy Food Strategies Latino Farmers & Ranchers International, (..)

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

More Soil Protected With Conservation Tillage Conservation tillage and no-till methods protect soil health and reduce soil erosion, increase crop resilience, reduce the need for chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and save labor costs. The Census shows that between the 2017 and 2022 Census, the US lost approximately 1.8

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The farmer] could be spraying with every insecticide, pesticide, fertilizer, and drive a big, stinky diesel truck into my city and sit outside idling for 20 minutes while he unloads all his plastic containers into my restaurant, right?” And, just because food is raised locally doesn’t mean it’s grown with climate-friendly practices. “[The

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 29, 2023

Click Here to buy Bird Feeders to attract Birds to your lawns Chemical Control: Pros and Cons Chemical control measures for worms in lawns do exist, but they should be used with caution due to potential environmental and ecological impacts. Chemical pesticides may harm beneficial earthworm populations and other non-target organisms.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

Organic farming is done with no synthetic fertilizers or pesticides. “We We see the ecological benefits and values of producing organically,” LaPointe said. “It In 2017, a transition to organic farming began, along with further efforts to positively impact the community through education and food sustainability.

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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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Farmbrite

AUGUST 16, 2023

While both permaculture and polyculture farming prioritize sustainability and ecological balance, permaculture takes a broader systems-thinking approach, while polyculture farming focuses on planting strategies within a specific area. This means that farmers don't need to use pesticides or herbicides as much.

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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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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Rooted in principles of ecology, localism, democracy, equity and justice, agroecology offers a compelling alternative to the industrial food system. Agroecological intelligence Agroecological farmers are not immune to either the pressure of, or the attraction to, adopting new technologies.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2023

As founder of the “Once and Future Green”, Michelle trains and consults Frontline communities, governments, and philanthropy to forward community-driven solutions with transformative anti-oppression and ecological design tools. They also have a farm stand. Somewhere, over the rainbow, NSAC members enjoyed farm fresh food.

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RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

We weren’t going to use fungicides, herbicides, nor pesticides — partly for the health of the land and the diversity of the ecosystem, and partly for our own health. It’s important that we use organic varieties, as we’re hoping to grow organic certified crops. We’re growing peas and oats to bring nitrogen back into the soil.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The situation is especially complex, given that the coffee industry is simultaneously fueling the climate crisis by clearing ecologically rich habitat for rows of tightly packed coffee plants. It creates a more ecologically diverse system that provides an abundance of crops and environmental benefits for farmers.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 12, 2025

Starting in the 1970s, through her groundbreaking nutritional ecology class at Teachers College within Columbia University, and through books like The Feeding Web: Issues in Nutritional Ecology , she transformed our view of food from something enjoyed at the end of a fork to the entire system that created the mouthful.

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