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. An agrihood’s investment in farmland can help save a family farm and keep more farmland in production.

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Farmland Food Farming Farming 126

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Photo credit: Vilicus Farms Farmers Are Coping with Severe Weather Many of the stories gathered by NSAC members highlight the climate impacts to which farmers are responding. For example, at Eckert’s Farm in Belleville, MO, Chris Eckert has seen extreme freezes killing off parts of his peach orchard.

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Pasture Crop Orchard Farming 117

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. For days, temperatures barely fell below 100 degrees Fahrenheit. “We

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

Nut farmer Benina Montes of Burroughs Family Farms in California says she chose to certify her almonds with ROC because of the environmental and economic benefits of ROC’s practices and brand. “By Her family farm has been organic certified since 2006, but it only adopted the ROC standards in June 2022.

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Food Ranching Ecology Fertilizer 93

Caff

JANUARY 26, 2022

CLIMATE SMART FARMER OF THE YEAR: SIERRA ORCHARDS When a small film crew arrived at Sierra Orchards last year for a video shoot on integrated crop livestock systems, the interviewer asked farmer Sean McNamara about his seed mix.

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Farming Farming Orchard Food 52

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 83

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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Acre Farming Farming Pasture 105

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 52

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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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 139

Caff

JULY 19, 2021

As a farming serving organization, we recognize the historic and lasting inequities in the California food and farming system. We are working to build farmer-to-farmer networks in California to provide farmers and ranchers with the resources to successfully implement ecological farming. webinars, field days, etc.)

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

Dairy farmer Joseph Goni’s grandfather witnessed the 1955 deluge that flooded their farm. Photo courtesy of Lerda-Goni Farms) Since the 1983 flood, changes in farming patterns have also raised the basin’s economic risk, he notes. Despite the resilience of family [farms], the mega-trend is undeniable,” says Raudabaugh.

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Farming Farming Manure Agriculture 81

Caff

APRIL 6, 2023

Description of Services Assist with setting up biological control experiments (applications of predatory mites, food sprays, and predator attractants) according to protocol and site maps in commercial walnut and winegrape farms Carry out weekly field monitoring of spider mites and natural enemies (using visual observations and yellow sticky cards) (..)

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Ecology Food Farming Orchard 52

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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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. Most of the rollovers in Washington occurred on crop farms, including the state’s signature apple orchards. Missouri has the highest number of fatal tractor incidents nationwide.

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Tractor Farming Farming Acre 91

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2023

Here are snapshots from those visits: Members toured Sister Gardens, one of three sites that are part of Frontline Farming, based in Denver, CO, Sister Gardens is a vegetable, herb, and flower garden on more than one acre of land within the Aria Denver development. A disused orchard that had been stewarded by the Sisters of St.

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Water Rights Food Farming Farming 52

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

This [farm] has been in my family for over 125 years, she said. So its all on me, and its my family farm. Keeping her farm well-managed is a responsibility she doesnt take lightly. I do everything from banking to planting to spraying, everything. Im very proud of that. Shes been more or less a one-woman show since.

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Agriculture Agriculture Food Harvest 55

RR2CS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

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.” The Saskatoons grown in commercial orchards are the same as their wild counterparts.

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Orchard Farming Farming Harvest 52

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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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Farming 89

Agwired

JANUARY 26, 2024

For the second year, delegates were polled at the beginning of the voting session regarding their farms and 99% of those who cast votes operate family farms and nearly two-thirds represent small to mid-size farms as defined by USDA. The award was presented at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 105th Convention. “My

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Civil Eats

APRIL 10, 2024

The owner of Wheeler’s Orchard and Vineyard , a family farm in Sequatchie County, said the first LFPA grant allowed regional food pantries to purchase some $30,000 in apples from her orchard. Kelsey Keener at Sequatchie Cove Farm. One county over from the Keeners, Jane Mauldin grows grapes, apples, and berries.

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Food Orchard Distribution Farming 109