Farming Greenhouse Tractor 
Civil Eats
JUNE 5, 2024
Emmert, a horticulturist at the University of Kentucky, was tinkering around with how to build a cheap greenhouse. This is commonly regarded as the first introduction of plastic into agriculture, a move that would transform modern farming—and inadvertently deposit an untold amount of plastic in the soil. In 1948, E.M.
Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
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. Aiello drives a shared tractor.
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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.
Modern Farmer
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
I loved the process of moving the tractor, getting them food and water and raising them,” he says. Siewicki started Vital Mission Farm with the hopes of helping to create a more sustainable food industry. But, starting the farm didn’t come easy at first. The model for long-standing farms wasn’t much help, either.
Civil Eats
JANUARY 15, 2024
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. New Jersey’s farms, just to the north, have not yet seen this degree of impact, and the U.S.
Civil Eats
MARCH 18, 2024
In other words, farmers lucky enough to produce a high-value product—especially when it’s intrinsically tied to the soil it’s grown in—may be uniquely positioned to help experiment, develop, and de-risk regenerative practices across all kinds of farms. “If If we take this as a holistic system. Today, it’s usually 30 minutes.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 20, 2024
flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. The farms mostly grow commoditiessoybeans, corn, cotton, and rice. The history of how this happenedhow one of the countrys most fertile farming regions became a knot of poverty, hunger, and racial injusticeis complicated and painful.
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