Sat.Jan 08, 2022 - Fri.Jan 14, 2022

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Transitioning to No-Till Organic Agriculture for Climate Resiliency—Sundog Organic Farm, Sturgeon County

RR2CS

By Trina Moyles Jenny Berkenbosch and James Vriend manage Sundog Organic Farm , a 14-acre certified organic vegetable and herb operation, located north of Edmonton in Sturgeon County. They grow a wide range of field and greenhouse vegetables and herbs, and sell their organic produce to customers through a summer and fall Farm Share program , and as well, at Edmonton’s Strathcona Farmer’s Market.

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More Guidance on ERC Gross Receipts

Agribusiness Blog

We have gotten numerous comments and questions regarding our last post on the Employee Retention Credit (ERC) gross receipts. The main question seems to be why we must include other business and personal income when we calculate gross receipts. Tax rules have almost always treated business income under common control as |”one” business for purposes of calculating gross receipts.

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Drought-threatened Family Farmers React to Governor’s Proposed Budget

Caff

Today California Governor Gavin Newsom released a record-breaking state budget proposal that includes significant investments to address climate change, support sustainable agriculture, and expand access to healthy school food. Unfortunately, the Governor’s budget does not yet articulate how to deliver on those challenges for the state’s small-scale farmers in ways that meet the moment around drought resilience and racial equity in agriculture.

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Happy New Year Gleaners!

The Gleaning Project of South Central PA

Happy New Years to all of you! We are so excited to be able to walk into another year with the opportunity to Glean and be part of our community! In the spirit of celebrating, we’re here to share some amazing recipes for the first week of January as well as introduce some food holidays to start your year off right! January is National Slow Cooking and Hot Tea Month !

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BACKYARD CHICKENS

The Lunatic Farmer

A friend contacted me last week for talking points to go before his town council asking for backyard chicken relief. This is such a crazy American issue. In Great Britain, everyone by right can have backyard chickens. Those rights were enshrined in British law as a result of wars and realizing that ultimate food security begins in the home and as proximate as possible.

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More ERC Info

Agribusiness Blog

It has been a while since I went a full week without doing a post. Last week I was traveling all week (and won’t be home until the 23rd) and am finally getting caught up a bit. I have gotten several emails regarding the Employee Retention Credit (ERC) and thought I would go over some details in this post as follows: If your gross receipts for the 4th quarter of 2020 were less than 80% of the same quarter in 2019, then you qualify for the ERC in the first quarter of 2021 even if your gross

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Member Spotlight: Alchemist Farm

Caff

Happy 2022! This year we want to start strong by highlighting the amazing farmers that are essential to the work we do at CAFF. This month, we want to introduce you to Franchesca and Ryan Duval owners of Alchemist Farm. When asked, “Why did you join CAFF” Franchesca said’, “As the world shifts ecologically I see the extreme benefit of joining our voice with the voices of local farmers for a common good” Together we go further in creating a more just, sustainable and

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