Farming Manufacturing Straw 
Civil Eats
APRIL 29, 2024
He plants nitrogen-rich legumes and other perennial cover crops amongst his pear, apple, plum, peach, and cherry trees, but he buys a commercial compost product to keep his 100-acre, fourth-generation family farm thriving. Ela knows first-hand how central compost is to his organic farm—and all organic agriculture.
Sustainable Food Trust
APRIL 10, 2024
We now all well know how plastic is devastating our seas, but we’re only beginning to realise how damaging it is to our soils and how widely used and poorly disposed of it is in farming. In 2021, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) published a major report on plastic use in farming. What happens to farm plastics?
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Modern Farmer
MARCH 1, 2024
Cheap and easy to make, it’s still the fastest-growing group of fibers used to manufacture garments. The difficulty, and the stage most of these startups are now, is in scaling manufacturing. The manufacture of next-gen fibers requires giant fermentation vats and skilled workers. What’s the solution?
Modern Farmer
MARCH 4, 2024
Photo courtesy of PuriFungi) Speyer and her crew cultivate fungi in a humidity- and temperature-controlled environment much like an indoor mushroom farm, inoculating a mix of cigarette butts and hemp with oyster mushroom spores. “Fungi are nature’s recyclers,” says PuriFungi’s Audrey Speyer.
Kavya Organic Farm
AUGUST 24, 2023
Phosphate rock is a popular material for the manufacturing of this fertiliser. Nitrogen helps with greenery, and potassium helps with plants’ stalks and straws Why fertilisers? Some traditional farming and agricultural methods, to date, use other methods of fertilising plants, especially farm manure and compost.
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.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 4, 2023
The Rodale Institute , a nonprofit research institution for organic farming, cites that every acre of land farmed with plastic mulch creates upwards of 120 pounds of waste that typically end up in landfill, or otherwise break down into the soil or nearby watersheds. However, no biodegradable films meet the NOP’s minimum threshold.
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