Family Farming, Harvesting and Orchard

With 80+ Speakers, Join Us in Bringing Food to the Forefront of Big Conversations at SXSW

Food Tank

MARCH 7, 2025

Congressman Pete Sessions (TX-17); Cathy Strange , Whole Foods Market; Roy Steiner , Rockefeller Foundation; Rick Simington , Organic Valley; Josh Tickell , Common Ground Film; Josh Tranel , Tranel Family Farm; Jeff Travillion , Travis County Commissioner; Alyssa Vescio , Whole Foods Market; Melva K.

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road near the familys farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community. Patrick currently operates Brown Family Farms on the land that Byron worked as a sharecropper once he was freed.

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Climate Change is Coming for Christmas Trees. Can They Be Saved?

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We lost 10 percent of our saleable Christmas trees that year,” says Leanna Anderson, owner of Aldor Acres Family Farm in Langley, British Columbia and treasurer of the BC Christmas Tree Association. Photo courtesy of Aldor Acres Farm. Photography courtesy of Aldor Acres Farm.

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Almonds are Under Threat. The Key to Saving Them Could Be in the Soil

Modern Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

It’a not just because it’s cheaper and not just because Capay Hills Orchard , his farm just north of Sacramento, is in an area of California that is increasingly drought-prone. Treehouse Almonds sources nuts from roughly 50,000 acres in California’s Central Valley, and Gardiner’s family farm provides about 20,000 of them.

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Talking Integrated Pest Management at Blossom Farms

Caff

AUGUST 5, 2022

The Community Alliance with Family Farms (CAFF) hosted our fourth Biologically Integrated Orchard System (BIOS) field day, titled “Effective IPM Strategies for Major Walnut Pests,” at Blossom Farms on July 12th. Hanna Kahl explaining CAFF programs and resources to growers at the beginning of the field day.

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The Night Shift

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

But it is no longer simply a proposal: This shift is already underway among many of the communities that catch, grow, and harvest the worlds food supply, from Brazil to India to the United States. That means that when harvests decline with nighttime fishing, their margins are even smaller. So its all on me, and its my family farm.

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20 Organizations Cultivating the Food Movement in Atlanta

Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Food Well Alliance Food Well Alliance brings together leaders of the local food movement to support more than 300 community gardens, urban farms, and orchards in metro Atlanta. They support 10 farm, community garden and orchard sites in DeKalb and Rockdale Counties, helping communities grow fresh, culturally familiar crops.

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Cultivation Food Marketing Distribution

On the Ground with the Midwest Farmers Going All-In On Agroforestry

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Johnson added trees to grazing land to create silvopastures, enhanced existing windbreaks and planted a micro-orchard with fruit and nut trees. Extreme rain events in 2016 and 2018 stressed field tile drainage systems on her neighboring farms, causing a creek on her property to flood.

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2022 Farm Champions

Caff

JANUARY 26, 2022

In October 2020, the Bear Yuba Land Trust, Sierra Harvest, BriarPatch Food Co-op and Tahoe Food Hub bought the land through a partnership called Forever Farm. The entire Sierra Orchards team is not only deeply knowledgeable and committed to their roles as land stewards, but they are forever generous with that wisdom.

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Farming Farming Orchard Food

Speaking on Behalf of Small Farmers for a Better Future: Christine Gemperle’s Testimony on AB 552 Regional Equipment Sharing

CalCAN

AUGUST 10, 2023

Christine Gemperle, almond farmer and CalCAN advisor recently drove to Sacramento from her orchard in Ceres to testify in support of equipment sharing and sustainable agriculture investments alongside CalCAN staff. Don’t sell the family farm because you will never get it back.

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Orchard Farming Farming Agriculture

Tractor Rollovers Kill Dozens on Farms Each Year—and a Prevention Program Is at Risk

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It was on Janssen’s family farm in the state’s Ozark Mountains where her uncle rolled his tractor—which had no ROPS—into a ravine in the 1980s. In one instance, a 56-year-old man had worked on his father’s farm all his life. Missouri has the highest number of fatal tractor incidents nationwide.

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Tractor Farming Farming Acre

BIFS Field Day: Cover Cropping and Livestock Grazing for Regenerative Viticulture

Caff

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Kendra Altnow shares the history of the LangeTwins Family Winery & Vineyards. On December 5th, the Community Alliance with Family Farms (CAFF) held a field day at the LangeTwins Family Winery & Vineyard in Acampo, CA. You may have to network with some other farmers and figure it out.

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Livestock Crop Farming Farming

Planting the ‘Prairie Berry’ — Solstice Berry Farm, Crossfield, Alberta

RR2CS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In 2007, after the perennial berry had established, the Gelowitz’s enjoyed their first harvest. Today, the idea has taken root: they’ve expanded their business into Solstice Berry Farm, a 40-acre orchard, managing 10 acres for a U-Pick operation and 30 acres for commercial production. The airflow is important for the orchard.”

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Orchard Farming Farming Harvester

A Win for Growers Who Protect Biodiversity on Agricultural Land

Modern Farmer

JUNE 6, 2024

Without pollinators to fertilize berry crops, orchards or field crops such as squash, all of us eaters are also endangered. After the lupine was discovered on the Mallonee family farm, the Department of Fish and Wildlife told Maynard Mallonee to come up with a rotational grazing plan for his cattle that protected the lupine.

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With 80+ Speakers, Join Us in Bringing Food to the Forefront of Big Conversations at SXSW

Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

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Climate Change is Coming for Christmas Trees. Can They Be Saved?

Almonds are Under Threat. The Key to Saving Them Could Be in the Soil

Talking Integrated Pest Management at Blossom Farms

The Night Shift

20 Organizations Cultivating the Food Movement in Atlanta

On the Ground with the Midwest Farmers Going All-In On Agroforestry

2022 Farm Champions

Speaking on Behalf of Small Farmers for a Better Future: Christine Gemperle’s Testimony on AB 552 Regional Equipment Sharing

Tractor Rollovers Kill Dozens on Farms Each Year—and a Prevention Program Is at Risk

BIFS Field Day: Cover Cropping and Livestock Grazing for Regenerative Viticulture

Planting the ‘Prairie Berry’ — Solstice Berry Farm, Crossfield, Alberta

A Win for Growers Who Protect Biodiversity on Agricultural Land

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