Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The Canadian NC1 ripens early, with fewer smooth black seeds than other varieties. Photo credit: Andrew Leahy, Horn Farm Center) Pawpaw’s Agricultural and Ecological Benefits The pawpaw is not only a part of Appalachian heritage. The Allegheny’s yellow flesh brings a pop of citrus flavor. A pawpaw tree in winter.

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NASDA

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition National Wheat Improvement Committee North American Millers’ Association Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association Oregon State University Oregon Tilth Organic Farming Research Foundation Organic Seed Alliance Pollinator Partnership Society for Range Management Soil Science Society of America Spark Climate (..)

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Reducing the use of harmful and synthetic inputs and fostering farmer-led seed systems offer good entry points for countries to introduce ecological and agroecological practices, proposed Fegert. Agroecology offers a powerful pathway towards achieving biodiversity, climate, and food security goals simultaneously.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

These methods include wide row spacing, planting multiple seeds per hole, and planting drought-tolerant varieties of seeds. Our seeds have been adapted for over 3,000 years to be raised with little moisture.” For him, agricultural resilience in the West means less manipulation of the environment. “The

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Agricultural Biodiversity

OCTOBER 20, 2024

NUS so fast: the social and ecological implications of a rapidly developing indigenous food economy in the Cape Town area. . …yes indeed there are, especially if they are grown in diverse landscapes. Nurturing gastronomic landscapes for biosphere stewardship. The hallowed craft of cooking can help realize those advantages.

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

When we asked why they chose the soil on the right, the answer was typically some version of “because the nutrients are dissolved in the water” or “because that powdery soil looks like it would be better to plant a seed into.” They clearly had some knowledge of soil, but that knowledge was leading them astray.

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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. Remember that family farms continue to feed 70 percent of the worlds population. These markets are large and important to local producers.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 16, 2024

In this series, we will explore the positive ecological impacts, challenges, and process for utilizing this perennial mulch on your farm or homestead. Welcome to the Clover Living Mulch System (CLMS)! The CLMS has many potential benefits for climate adaptation and mitigation as well as for building soil health and promoting biodiversity.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Planning Winter Cover Crop Rotations Maximizing cover crop benefits in the garden requires strong crop planning with strategic rotations coupled with creative improvision so it’s important to examine strategies and considerations for incorporating cover crops with no-till methods and inter-seeding.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

At her 6-acre Sakari Farms outside Bend, Oregon, Schreiner employs traditional ecological knowledge to cultivate regional first foods —foods consumed before European colonialization—and passes that expertise down to Native American youth. I think some of the blood memory in this ancestral seed is digging the drought.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 25, 2024

At Spirit of the Sun , Native American youth are not only learning about traditional ecological knowledge , they’re also empowered to do the teaching. After moving to Denver in 2021, Hemingway found a reconnection to place upon attending a Spirit of the Sun workshop about plant relationships and seed keeping.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 9, 2024

She explains that part of her work is saving the seeds from different types of fruit, both to trade with other farmers as well as to grow into trees that she sells. There are two major threats to criolla [native] seeds today,” said Fuentes. And that is why we save seeds.” Under both of these threats, species can go extinct.

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 3, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Cropland was seeded back to grass in 2014, and cattle were grazed during the 2015, 2016 and 2017 seasons. Its much more complex than that.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Inflation is leading families to cut back on meals and farmers to cut back on seeds and fertilizers. A study published by Groundswell international and Partenariat pour le Developpement Local finds that rural farmers in Haiti who engage in agroecology are more than twice as productive, more ecologically positive, and more food secure.

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NASDA

MARCH 18, 2024

These challenges have greatly slowed agency regulatory functions, which in turn have delayed product registrations needed by growers and other users, as well as the implementation of new ecological and human health protections. million for the operations of EPA-OPP.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Failure to robustly fund public research that promotes ecologically-based production systems stifles scientific and technical innovation and leaves US farmers and ranchers unable to fully participate in and benefit from emerging markets for sustainably-produced foods. This problem has grown over the past several decades.

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Kavya Organic Farm

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Environmental Benefits of Planting Tuna Fruit Planting this fruit at home comes with several ecological benefits that contribute to a healthier environment. Q: Can you eat the seeds of a tuna fruit? A : Yes, the seeds of a tuna fruit are edible. However, they are quite hard and may not be pleasant to chew.

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Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 10, 2024

Plastics are used across the gamut of farming, from the ubiquitous silage wrap, usually black but now increasingly in an array of colours, to plastic mulches, agricultural film plastic, seed bags and onwards. What happens to farm plastics? Assessing what happens to farm plastics once their usefulness is over has proved very tricky.

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Caff

AUGUST 26, 2024

Below are a list of the Spring 2024 microgrant awardees, along with links to learn more about the projects and growers.

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NASDA

JUNE 22, 2023

Sincerely, 2 Blades Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Alliance to End Hunger American Association of Mycobacterial Diseases American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges American Dairy Science Association American Feed Industry Association American Institute of Biological Sciences American Malting Barley Association American Phytopathological (..)

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 2, 2023

As a young scientist, he helped develop wheat seeds that helped end famine and propelled India to more than triple its annual crop in just 15 years. This renewed focus came as hybrid seeds, instrumental in the Green Revolution, had led farmers to overlook the potential ecological damage of intensive fertilizer and agrochemical use.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 26, 2023

He realized the ecological importance of milkweed, sometimes viewed as a pest plant, and turned to gathering seed pods and encouraging gardeners to plant the flower. After seeing the lively discussion sparked by our profile of Steve Bushey, we know better.

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 22, 2023

These practices may include planting cover crops, seeding perennials in a riparian area, using no-till planting, etc., Too often, we see government agencies, organizations and entities pay farmers for performing a practice on their land. but once the monetary incentives are no longer available, farmers stop using those practices.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Now it becomes a perennial living mulch to direct seed or transplant cash crops into. Clover grows aggressively at the beginning of the season, Lincoln told me, so it’s best to direct seed or transplant vegetables into the clover in late May or after (he’s in Massachusetts), when the clover growth slows and competition is reduced.

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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. full_link READ MORE Learn how to prepare your yard for pollinators.

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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. The demo, provided by Oscar Veloz with TurfStar Inc, and following discussion highlighted the many challenges and emerging opportunities of managing weeds organically.

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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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The Lunatic Farmer

APRIL 20, 2021

Yesterday I did a two-hour guest podcast for SCATTERED SEEDS, co-hosted by Tom O'Boyle and Nathanael Devlin, and we dug into my book THE MARVELOUS PIGNESS OF PIGS. That book emphasizes the Christian part of my self-proclaimed title: Christian Libertarian Environmentalist Capitalist Lunatic Farmer.

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Caff

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Presentations happened surrounded by farm machinery, including a no-till seed drill, that River Garden uses to plant diverse cover crops every year. 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.

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Caff

AUGUST 5, 2022

Hanna Kahl, CAFF’s Ecological Pest Management Specialist, kicked off the event by introducing CAFF and the BIOS project, which began in the 1990s and involved some growers in the same neck of the woods as Blossom Farms. Randy also owns his own seed drillers, and plants cover crops on other farms in the area.

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Caff

JANUARY 27, 2021

ECOLOGICAL FARMER Kristyn Leach, Namu Farm Kristyn Leach runs Namu Farm, with a focus not just on organic heirloom Korean produce but also seed saving and production on a small scale at a time when the seed industry has been consolidated into the hands of just a few big businesses.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

From 2014 to 2021, Minnesota farmer James Wolf raised organic soybeans, corn and wheat, selling the grains to farmers across the midwest, both for seed and animal feed. The state claims that the “organic” seed Wolf was selling was not, in fact, organic. How much seed did you purchase? In May, Wolf pleaded guilty to the charges.

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Caff

MAY 4, 2021

The purchase and use of culturally- and scale-appropriate farm tools can ensure that farms remain ecologically and financially prosperous. The fund was launched with seed funding from Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. and with additional support from American AgCredit.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 3, 2024

Permaculture means that gardeners work with existing ecological conditions in a specific place. More efforts, like The Free Market – a store where neighbors exchange household-items – and a Seeds Exchange Library, complete an impressive portfolio of community-lead projects.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

In its place, ‘agroecology’ was more explicitly recognised as a broad moniker for a range of practices that are grounded in biological / ecological farming; this has made the term more distinct in its definition. Kumar calls for “a new trinity for an age of ecology which has wholeness, integrity and cohesion”.

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Caff

MAY 2, 2022

Soil, Seeds, Sunshine and Soul!” In addition to working my farm, I also run a farmer training program and Ag education center, the Ecological Agriculture Training and Cultural Center in Norco. Soil, Seeds, Sunshine and Soul!” ” What is one of your biggest challenges as a grower?

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

Graydon Garner, Rod’s son-in-law, is new to the ranch, but equally as committed to the tenets of soil health and environmental conservation, while introducing new strategies on the land, including using their sheep as an ecological management tool for weed control. In April 2021, Rod, Graydon, and family, received the J.

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