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This Oregon Farmer Is Building a New Model for Indigenous Food and Agriculture

Civil Eats

The farm is not a nonprofit organization, so Schreiner depends largely on small one-off grants, crowdfunding, and limited wholesale revenue to finance Sakari’s many efforts—all of which center on traditional ecological knowledge. Spring Alaska Schreiner, owner of Sakari Farms outside Bend, Oregon.

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Agroforestry Deepens Roots with New Demonstration Farm Network

Modern Farmer

It was founded in 2013 in the Champaign-Urbana area by a group of researchers, students and farmers that were interested in exploring how perennial agriculture and agroforestry could benefit Midwestern farmlands. The organization focuses on Illinois and Wisconsin but also does support work in Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan and Indiana.

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More regenerative farming may be a climate solution. But another climate solution is impeding its progress

The Counter

They’d take a few hundred acres of both leased and family-owned central-Texas farmland—land that for decades had grown row crops of corn and cotton—and give it “what it wants back,” he said. By one estimate, storing an extra 2 percent of carbon in soil would return atmospheric greenhouse gases to “safe” levels.

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Restoring soil carbon

Sustainable Food Trust

It plans to do this by public and private means with the Agricultural Transition Plan 2021 to 2024 which contains schemes incentivising and helping farmers to adopt nature-friendly farming practices, and a Green Finance Strategy to encourage more private investment.

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One-of-a-kind 'agri-hood' would blend housing, farming and racial justice on Far East Side of Madison

Agritecture Blog

It will preserve farmland and grow food to feed people. The project’s planners, Bt Farms Foundation , is a diverse team led by Black women with expertise in design, landscape architecture and urban planning, urban agriculture, ecology, geography, real estate, finance and engineering.

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Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

In 1920, Blacks owned or operated 14 percent of all farmland in the U.S.; In both cases, its the initial conversion of undisturbed land to farmland that has the biggest impact. If its coming to the Delta, its going to be existing farmland switching from one crop to another, not new land being converted. But he has bigger plans.

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What Are the Big Issues for Young Farmers? We Asked Them

Modern Farmer

Ardeo was matched to farmland through the B.C. In Ontario, the Fair Finance Fund has a national fund for BIPOC candidates, because those candidates weren’t able to get their loans from the traditional lenders. So, in my mind, one of these big policy shifts is understanding that bigger isn’t always better.

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