National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Joshua Cave, Cave Family Farm in Pilot Mountain, North Carolina. Funds spent in regional food systems are considered multipliers , meaning that the value of each dollar spent in a regional food system is amplified beyond its initial value for community impacts. In 2022, 60,332 farms reported more than $14.2

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 22, 2023

As the general manager of the nonprofit Northwest Connecticut Food Hub (NWC Food Hub) , Giroux spends a lot of time in that station wagon. Food hubs bridge the marketing, sales and distribution channels while taking out any middlemen.” Small, first-generation farms are often susceptible to common business start-up issues.

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Caff

JUNE 11, 2024

Background After months of advocacy, the State Legislature proposed a joint budget agreement that would prevent critical investments in food hubs and small farm emergency relief from getting cut! to CDFA’s Farm to Community Food Hub: Created by former Asm Bloom, this program would create NEW food hubs across California.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Across the city of Atlanta, Georgia, many organizations are working to build a food system that centers community wellbeing with the health of the planet. On April 14, Food Tank is heading to Atlanta to partner with Spelman College and Emory University for the Summit “ Empowering Eaters: Access, Affordability, and Healthy Choices.”

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Trimble Agriculture

APRIL 23, 2024

Farmers are in the business to make food not waste, but even so, an inevitable 88.7 million tons of food went unsold or uneaten in the United States in 2022 , roughly 38 percent of our nation’s total food supply. The majority of food waste occurs on a consumer level—in homes, restaurants, and grocery stores.

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Food Tank

JUNE 28, 2024

It changes what your vision of a family farm is and how you have to go about getting there.” Between 1935 and 2023, the number of farms in the U.S. decreased by 72 percent, while the average farm size nearly tripled. Independent family farms are the bedrock of healthy rural economies,” says Treakle.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 20, 2024

When Maximina Hernández Reyes emigrated from Oaxaca, Mexico, to Oregon in 2001, she was still learning English, had no idea where the food pantries were, and knew very few people. Hernández Reyes was able to secure a small plot in the community garden and started growing food for her family. This was just the beginning.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Trisha says niche markets like this are critical to keeping small family farms like theirs alive. “If If we didn’t have Niman Ranch, we wouldn’t be raising pigs…we are a small farm and 225 pigs is just tiny on the scale of the large conventional operations. We don’t have to hire multiple people to run the farm.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Some of the terms used on food labels are official certifications, enforced by the USDA or a nonprofit entity, and the presence of the certification means that the farming operation has been verified in some way for compliance. Below is a list of definitions for common phrases on food labels. Do you know what “cage-free” means?

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The food systems advocate, land steward, and beekeeper came of age during the civil rights movement in Kentucky and has spent five decades working for social and racial justice. In 1972, he founded the Good Foods Co-op in Lexington. Jim Embry sees tending to land as a sacred and spiritual responsibility.

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Caff

JULY 19, 2023

On June 29th, Lopes Family Farms hosted a field day with Community Alliance with Family Farms (CAFF) in Princeton, CA focused on rice and duck farming, a Biologically Integrated Farming System (BIFS). For more information on Lopes Family Farm follow them at Lopes Family Farms. *All

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

Two organizations want to put an end to the wild west of claims and prove, through certification, that food labeled regenerative is genuinely the gold standard of sustainability and not just another marketing buzzword. Her family farm has been organic certified since 2006, but it only adopted the ROC standards in June 2022.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Small farms that made all their household income from the farm struggled the most, despite selling something we all need—food. Nevertheless, these farms were honorably scraped together from nothing, their growers much like passionate artists in the field; their art: beautiful, healthy local food.

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Food Tank

MAY 3, 2024

Iowa is the number-one pork producer in the United States, but it has relatively few hog farms. Large factory farm facilities have replaced smaller family farms. The state lost nearly 90 percent of its hog farms from 1982 to 2017, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Census data.

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Caff

JANUARY 10, 2023

These cuts will have a huge impact on the future of family farmers and local food. million in cuts to the sustainable agriculture programs such as the Healthy Soils Pogram and the Pollinator Habitat Program The post Family Farms React to Governor’s Proposed Budget, Major Cuts appeared first on Community Alliance with Family Farmers.

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Sustainable Food Trust

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Superficially, it is a warm, amusing, easy to read collection of snippets of life on a family farm. The post Lessons from a life on the family farm first appeared on Sustainable Food Trust. The post Lessons from a life on the family farm appeared first on Sustainable Food Trust.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

Walla Walla’s hands-on coursework is bringing together agriculture and culinary students as part of a nascent movement among community colleges that are increasingly bringing food production into curricula in new and innovative ways. million grant for its soon-to-come vertical farming, hydroponics and plant-based culinary arts programs.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Or being able to go visit family or be there for every basketball game or holiday or wedding…there are a lot of sacrifices that must be taken to get food on everybody’s plate.” With fewer from the next generation taking over family farms, they are often bought by large-scale farmers and consolidated.

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Caff

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The post One & a half million dollars for family farms in need appeared first on Community Alliance with Family Farmers. DONATE TODAY “COVID has made worse of the inequities that already existed in our community but it has also shown some of our best qualities to come together and support each other.

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Caff

JUNE 29, 2021

Small farmers who scrambled to adapt and supply healthy, local food when the pandemic shuttered restaurants and dining halls are once again facing enormous challenges. Caiti Hachmyer of Red H Farm in South Sebastopol started a CSA in 2020 which helped her farm survive the pandemic but the heavy workload took its toll.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

By his senior year, Williams was trying to figure out how to return home and take over the family farm. Williams, his wife Hannah, and their toddler Lyle now live on Williams Family Farms, sustainably and humanely raising pigs and farming about 400 acres of cropland. Luckily, his father was just about to retire. “To

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Food Tank

JULY 19, 2024

Today, 22-year-old Roberts is enlisted with the Nebraska Army National Guard while working as a fifth-generation farmer with his parents at Roberts Family Farm in Southwest Iowa. The family’s farm serves as a model for how smaller-scale, humane hog farming can be both environmentally and economically sustainable.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

There are some 90 million dogs in the US alone, and their protein needs are rattling the human food chain. Humans are worried about what’s in dog food, not to mention what dog food is in––way too much non-recyclable packaging. Is there a way to make healthier dog food that won’t burden the planet so much?

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Sustainable Food Trust

MARCH 12, 2024

Our list of recommended food and farming films and TV series is especially selected, watched and reviewed by the SFT team for your viewing pleasure. As a new entrant grower with no family background in food production, it is Adrienne who has perhaps the hardest path.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This is because the subsidies have been unconditional and the market has been brutal; they have used, as the NFU likes to say, ‘all the tools in the toolbox’, i.e., nitrogen fertiliser and pesticides, to continuously increase their food production in order to stay in business. Of course, this is not the end of the story.

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Caff

DECEMBER 23, 2021

As nearly 400 equally colossal boats panicked in queue behind that floating global bottleneck, our members throughout California were helping to push forward a bill that would invest $15 million in Community Food Hubs. And yet, crisis after crisis, our local farmers grew food for their communities.

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Caff

MAY 14, 2024

While acknowledging this year’s budget deficit, Community Alliance with Family Farmers(CAFF) and California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF) are disappointed by the additional cuts made to critical disaster relief for the majority of California’s farmers. million to CDFA’s Farm to Community Food Hubs Program created by AB 1009 (Bloom) $12.9

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Its agrihood model uses tiny homes as the residences, with 11 families currently sharing the responsibilities of gardening and caring for the chickens, honey bees and orchards. The community was started by a husband-and-wife team, inspired by a passion for tiny homes and good food. Participation requirements on the farms vary.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 30, 2023

A version of this piece was featured in a special edition of Food Tank’s newsletter. I just returned from one of my favorite events, the Niman Ranch Hog Farmer Appreciation Celebration in Des Moines, Iowa, at which Food Tank is honored to co-host an Educational Summit. These are stories that are too often ignored and forgotten.

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Food Tank

APRIL 29, 2024

While he was fighting President Reagan’s attempt to gut the New Deal Farm Bill, Senator Harkin pointed to a study that compared two agricultural communities: one composed mostly of family farms and another crowded with giant corporate producers. Copyright © 2024 Austin Frerick.

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Caff

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

At this moment, CAFF is working closely with partners across the country, with plans to meet this month with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) to advocate for the needs of family farms.

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NASDA

JUNE 22, 2023

Letter Dear Chairs and Ranking Members, As organizations concerned about the future of food and agricultural science, the undersigned are writing to express our support for the America Grows Act of 2023 (S.1628), Food and agriculture remain a pillar of the U.S. Thanks to the U.S.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This community used to form the backbone of UK rural culture, however, during my lifetime of dairy farming, it has been decimated. Customers are increasingly suspicious that many of the foods they eat, and milk in particular, are coming from ever larger and more industrialised farms. His response stuck in my mind.

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Caff

JANUARY 27, 2021

Every year, we honor individuals, farms and local businesses making a positive impact on our food and agricultural communities throughout California. Big thanks to everyone who nominated their own local food and farm heroes. LEGACY FARMER Will Scott, Scott Family Farms Will Scott Jr.

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Caff

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

At this moment, CAFF is working closely with partners across the country, with plans to meet this month with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) to advocate for the needs of family farms.

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Food Tank

JULY 5, 2023

“The sooner we can mobilize and organize and be there to help, the better the families are to endure this,” Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga, Executive Director for ALAS tells Food Tank. ALAS has found that one of the biggest impacts of the flooding is the barriers the destruction imposes on accessing food. ALAS is ready.

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Caff

JULY 11, 2023

While newer to CDFA, programs like Farm to Community Food Hub and Urban Agriculture are central to the agency’s commitments to equity and we are pleased to see these programs maintain their funding to serve California’s small and diverse family farms.

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