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A Washington Cohousing Project Could Help Preserve Farmland

Modern Farmer

Its a rare sunny day in January, and about a dozen people gather on a farm in Snohomish County, Washington. The farmer, Brett Aiello of Reconnecting Roots Farm, wants to suppress the weeds around some newly planted fruit trees without disturbing the soil, and hes enlisted some help. Let’s prove that this works.

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Vertical Farming: How to Produce More Food on Less Land

Modern Farmer

The word farm was once equated with images of sun-kissed green fields in rural areas. Not only are farms moving closer to urban areas, but theyre also getting creative in how and where they grow produce. Vertical farms take advantage of old buildings and state-of-the-art greenhouses to produce food in a small amount of space.

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Op-Ed | India Must Redesign its Agriculture Based on Regenerative Farming

Food Tank

Ecosystem services are the benefits provided by nature and managed by farmers on their farmland. For example, soil and vegetation on farms remove carbon from the atmosphere, regulate hydrological flows, and shelter pollinators who pollinate crops. Farmers manage these subsidies of nature on their farmland, free for the public.

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PFAS Shut Maine Farms Down. Now, Some Are Rebounding.

Civil Eats

Until a few years ago, Songbird Farm in Unity, Maine, grew wheat, rye, oats, and corn, as well as an array of vegetables in three high tunnel greenhouses, and supported a community-supported agriculture (CSA) program for over 100 customers. Some farms were able to stop production temporarily while they identified possible solutions.

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Q&A: How Community Land Trusts Help to Preserve Farmland

Modern Farmer

For more than four decades, the executive director of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics (which she co-founded with Robert Swann in 1980) has been tending to a land-use movement in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, driven by innovative ideas for cultivating affordable access to farmland. HVS: Let’s start with the basics.

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As Saltwater Encroaches on Farms, Solutions Emerge from the Marshes

Civil Eats

John Zander’s family has owned a stretch of land along New Jersey’s southern coast for 30 years, but he only recently dubbed the farm “Cohansey Meadows.” John Zander, project manager at Cohansey Meadows Farms in Fairfield Township, New Jersey. Cohansey for the river that runs through it. How can we turn this into an advantage?”

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It’s not the plough, but the how!

Sustainable Food Trust

As news of weed killer resistant plants hits the headlines, Patrick Holden reflects on discussions at the latest Oxford Real Farming Conference, highlighting why the plough may not be the worst option when it comes to nature-friendly cultivation. In parallel, Richard Gantlett, who is somewhat of a data geek (I mean that as a compliment!),