Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 29, 2023

Soil pH: In some cases, nightcrawler activity can lead to localized pH changes, making the soil more alkaline due to their digestive processes. Chemical pesticides may harm beneficial earthworm populations and other non-target organisms. Can I use chemical pesticides to control worms in lawns?

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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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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

It’s a tedious but worthwhile process: drying mushrooms, vegetables, and herbs, making pickles and slaw, and preserving garlic blossoms and coriander seeds in airtight jars before these ingredients vanish with the end of the season. Seafood processing houses, they just cut the filet off and throw the carcass in the bin.

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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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The Equation

MAY 15, 2023

Research from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has shown that repurposing agricultural land in California can be a feasible solution for many communities and farmers, but it is not a simple linear process and stirs a lot of emotions and controversy.

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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.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This bill helps meet the conservation needs of young and BIPOC producers through dedicated funding and a simplified application process for small operations. With these partners, we call on Congress to include the text of the Small Farm Conservation Act in the 2023 Farm Bill.

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Caff

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The process of producing sprouted walnuts starts first by soaking them in water, rinsing them in a salt bath, then dehydrating them at low temperatures until ready. This process reduces both the tannin levels and allergens. With the added value of processing the walnuts, sprouted walnuts were able to be sold at a premium.

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 29, 2023

Soil pH: In some cases, nightcrawler activity can lead to localized pH changes, making the soil more alkaline due to their digestive processes. Chemical pesticides may harm beneficial earthworm populations and other non-target organisms. Can I use chemical pesticides to control worms in lawns?

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Compost Fertilizer Ecology Pesticide 52

Caff

JULY 28, 2024

This chemical process is called pyrolysis, and produces charcoal, or, biochar. Creating Biochar: Methods and Processes Biochar can be produced using specialized biochar kilns or through traditional methods like pile burning. Portuguese settlers called these Amazonian soils terra preito do indo which means Indian black earth.

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 29, 2023

Soil pH: In some cases, nightcrawler activity can lead to localized pH changes, making the soil more alkaline due to their digestive processes. Chemical pesticides may harm beneficial earthworm populations and other non-target organisms. Can I use chemical pesticides to control worms in lawns?

Compost 40

Compost Fertilizer Ecology Pesticide 40

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. Some participants acknowledged that in urban settings, hydroponically grown produce might be preferable to processed food.

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RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

They’re also in the process of establishing a shelter belt and heirloom flower garden. Today, Jenna and Thomas are in the process of rebuilding the market vegetable and herb garden, while focusing on restoring health and vitality back into the compacted hayfield. We’re growing peas and oats to bring nitrogen back into the soil.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

And while the loss of coffee wouldn’t necessarily cause mass starvation, a whole lot relies on it: hundreds of millions of smallholder farmers and coffee-processing jobs in the tropics, as well as the gross domestic product of several countries like Nicaragua and Uganda. Thousands of hectares of agroforestry systems were razed as a result.

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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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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

This refers to the natural processes by which all living things eventually die, decay and under normal circumstances return to the earth to be recycled. What he could not have known is that the processes he describes, depend, amongst other things, on the action of mycorrhizal fungi.

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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Farmers need to have annual inspections to demonstrate delivery against those standards, ranging from controlled pesticide usage to crop rotations and natural fertiliser usage. Farmers must undergo an expensive (and sometimes bureaucratic) certification process. Today, shoppers in the United Kingdom spend £60 million a week on organic.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Farmers euthanized (that means killed and threw away) millions of chickens, turkeys, and hogs because mega-processing plants couldn’t maintain operations. But instead it shackled us, enslaved us to nefarious scientists bringing us fertilizer and menus from laboratories instead of from God’s ecological womb. Or in the pig pen.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Studies linking paraquat to Parkinsons disease havent moved regulators to outlaw the pesticide, but lawsuits seeking damages for the neurological disorder will almost certainly depend on them. The EPAs Delay Paraquat was first registered for use in the U.S. On January 17, EPA took two actions.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 12, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) retract a memo it released last year that reported the agency found no evidence of PFAS in its tests of commonly used pesticides. EPA initiated the tests after an environmental toxicologist found alarming levels of multiple PFAS in six out of 10 agricultural pesticides he tested.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Power of State Policymaking The Cohort for Rural Opportunity and Prosperity (CROP)—a subset of SiX’s Agriculture and Food Systems program—currently includes elected officials from 43 states who are positioned to advance socially and ecologically responsible rural, agricultural, and food policy.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

The bill also provides new authority to allow USDA to refinance farm loans for distressed borrowers, although some of this flexibility was stripped back during the amendment process. Shifts the burden of proof in the appeals process to USDA. This program has been long authorized but never funded in the farm bill process.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 19, 2024

Dedicating even a fraction of the land now devoted to ethanol to solar panels would produce more energy and ease the ecological burden on our most prolific farming region, the former prairies and wetlands of the Midwest. Corn, the largest U.S. crop, blankets this rich landscape.

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