ATTRA

AUGUST 11, 2023

In this introductory webinar, NCAT and the Carbon Cycle Institute talk about what Carbon Farm and Ranch Planning is and what it looks like across the Texas landscape. This webinar was made possible by the Meadows Foundation and is based upon work that is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S.

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Caff

MARCH 4, 2024

Part One: Creating a Strong Online Presence for Your Farm with Instagram Our first webinar took place on February 27th as part of the California Small Farm Conference. Part Two: Direct-to-Consumer Flower Sales Stories, Tips, and E-commerce Our second webinar features Sunny Meadows Flower Farm.

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RR2CS

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In the end, humility remained firmly stuck in my head every time I thought about my experience at South Glanton Farms near Forrest, Manitoba and Bla-Kar Farms near Merlin, Ontario last August. How and where they farm varies quite a bit though. As I walked through the meadow, I was hit by flashbacks of my childhood.

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RR2CS

APRIL 4, 2023

To start things off, ranchers Blusette and Mark Campbell, out in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan joined us to share some of what they’ve learned about grazing and herd management. For the remainder of the series, we’ll mainly be focusing on grazing management and adjusting grazing during a drought.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

When Albania emerged from Communist rule in 1990, collective farms were dismantled, heralding a move to a market economy. Until 1990, the system of collective farms in a country that had been able to utilise its abundant water to irrigate most farmland, meant Albania was self-sufficient in food.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 21, 2023

the first cloud-based farm accounting software delivering solutions to growers across the Midwest, announced the appointment of Dustin Sapp as chief executive officer. Jim Winn, a member of Farmers for Sustainable Food and president of Lafayette Ag Stewardship Alliance, was selected as the Field to Market 2023 Farmer of the Year.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

In this series, we explore the role of metrics in transitioning to a more sustainable food and farming system, and we meet some of the people who are leading the way. Here, Alicia Miller, Content Editor for the Sustainable Food Trust, looks at why farmers, workers and communities are the bedrock of a resilient food and farming system.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Additionally, it’s worked with the North Carolina Department of Agriculture to support farmers who want to grow flowers on their farm margins in support of pollinators. A meadow planted by TDOT at a highway interchange. Transportation departments are one of the largest landowners in various states,” says Smith.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

Co-locating solar panels and crops can protect the crops from extreme weather, but it also produces energy for the farm or other purposes. Top: agrivoltaics are being trialed at Jacks Solar Farm in Colorado. Credit: De Zeen Editor’s Note: As farmers explore the realm of renewable energy, agrivoltaics is gaining traction.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 8, 2023

The water savings since he added the technology to his farm have been substantial, yet the benefits and cost savings have gone well beyond conserving an increasingly contentious natural resource in the West. Even so, the water efficiency is far higher than traditional farming methods. “It Fodder is a tool.”

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The Lunatic Farmer

APRIL 11, 2022

A note from Dr. Sina McCullough… “Last year, Joel Salatin (from Polyface Farm) and I joined forces to bring you the TWO DAYS OF TRUTH wellness summit. Date: June 24-25, 2002 Location: Polyface Farm 43 Pure Meadows Ln, Swoope, VA 24479 Space is LIMITED to 300 people For more information and to purchase tickets click HERE.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In the last couple of years, a steady stream of visitors, many in rented motor homes, have stopped at our farm to walk our fields and dream. They don’t watch TV all evening; they can tomatoes and chase fireflies in the meadow. You can find a homestead conference to attend virtually every month of the year. That’s okay.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

In this series, we explore the role of metrics in transitioning to a more sustainable food and farming system, and we meet some of the people who are leading the way. For many people, the way to change our approach is to re-consider how we value nature. But there is a more fundamental value issue here.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

SFT CEO Patrick Holden and his wife Becky Holden farm 300 acres in West Wales and produce a raw milk cheddar called Hafod with the milk from their herd of Ayrshire cows. Here, Becky reflects on the thriving biodiversity on their hill farm and the interconnectedness of the farm and nature.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Once they would have been joined by many other families whose produce fed the local population and whose farms were within Bristol’s city boundary. A hundred years ago, according to Catherine, there were 28 farms in South Bristol alone, several of them tenanted by her ancestors.

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Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

Tom Farquhar planted several large plots of beneficial flowers around his vegetable farm in Montgomery County, Maryland. Once a conventional corn and soybean farm, the idea was to control pests at the Certified Naturally Grown operation by increasing the number of beneficial predator insects and spiders. Runoff from U.S.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2024

Kelp’s Tangled Lines Read all the stories in our series: Overview: The Promise and Possible Pitfalls of American Kelp Farming Our four-part in-depth series examines the growth of the U.S. Seaweed farming, a longstanding tradition in Asia for more than a hundred years, is now gaining a place on U.S. seaweed industry.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 22, 2023

The banks of canals cut into marshland are all that remains of a section of marsh in Golden Meadow, Louisiana. Those wetlands, he says, would in turn provide habitat for the seafood and game that make up the traditional Indigenous diet.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Farming and food production are central to UK society. This short briefing explores how regenerative farming is core to delivery of Labour’s missions, and how public investment in the farming transformation can deliver for its economic, environmental and social goals. This level of ambition is needed again now.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

For others, however, the Welsh countryside is a stark reminder of the damage that humans have wreaked upon the land through intensive farming and industry. Graves looks at how the country-wide shift from traditional mixed farms with carefully managed infield-outfield systems to mass livestock farming – primarily of sheep – has taken its toll.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 4, 2024

We received so many suggestions and wanted to share a few of these farms and farmers with you. We asked each of them to tell us what makes their farm special, why they each chose farming, and what advice they would give to any future farmers out there. I keep the honey separate from each meadow and each month.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Catastrophe loomed everywhere I looked: in the dust bowls on the once-fertile plains of central Turkey, in the vanishing lakes of Mexico City, in the fetid cesspools outside the factory farms of North Carolina, in the disease-ravaged olive trees of Puglia, in the rapid wiping away of diverse food webs in every biome.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The owner of Meadow Creek Farms in northern Alberta serves about 200 families a month with her egg subscriptions and broiler chickens—but now, instead of customers coming to pick up their orders from Melnyk directly, she’s spending a lot of time in the car, delivering them herself.

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Sustainable Food Trust

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Having been inspired by Rosamund Young’s latest book The Wisdom of Sheep , Julie Baber shares with us the magic of Kite’s Nest Farm, where “the kitchen is warm, the tea copious, the milk creamy”. Tucked into a valley on the scarp slope of the Cotswolds, and with nature in abundance, it’s no wonder the farm draws you in.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 16, 2023

They lay eggs on grassy areas like pastures or meadows where the larvae will grow into adult flies within three weeks of hatching. Here's what you need to know about preventing and treating horse fly bites in horses and cattle: Horse flies are blood-sucking insects that attack livestock, such as horses and cattle.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Chris Grotegut has earned a reputation in the High Plains of Texas for farming practices that have helped replenish the region’s depleted aquifer. Just over a decade ago, he began converting his 11,000-acre farm to perennial native grassland to rebuild the health of his soil.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 28, 2025

Hes also an accountant, squaring the numbers for his central Minnesota farm by hand; a herder, rotating 75 cows between pastures; a crop farmer, raising 300 acres of feed like corn and hay; and a mechanic, repairing the equipment necessary to tend that acreage. Ben Wagner may be a dairy farmer, but that job description is woefully incomplete.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Here, the clover struggles for light beneath the overstretched vines, and crabgrass and small amaranth seedlings dream of sunlit meadows or the turnrows of a cornfield. Voices of farm workers, young people in shorts and muck boots and wide brimmed straw hats drift across the fields. What do the tomatoes say in return?

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

I heard a similar argument when I paid a visit to David Whittaker at Oak Meadows Farm , a pasture-raised poultry and hog operation near where I live in Whatcom County, WA. He was also leery of the notion that smaller farms could meet the countrys demands for chicken breasts, turkey dinners, and egg scrambles.

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