Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2025

What she found was 200 acres of old farmland atop a Virginia mountain. The forest encroached on the meadow, pioneer poplar, locust, and sassafras saplings taking the lead. Standing on the mountain, with all those acres of rolling hills unfolding in front of me, my goal to plant a small patch of meadow seemed timid.

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Meadow Farming Farming Orchard 46

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.” Meadows for the term that residents of the region use to refer to the vast marshes that create a fluid transition between solid ground and the water of the Delaware Bay.

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Farming Farming Meadow Greenhouse 141

Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 1, 2025

The farm is small with a remarkably diverse array of landscapes woodland, ancient meadows, a stream that runs through the farm drawing a broad range of creatures and birds. The demands of growing cities are increasingly impinging on farmland.

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Food Farming Farming Acre 104

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

This includes leaving some vegetation along the wetlands undisturbed to help regulate water temperatures and planting wildflower meadows for native pollinators, especially milkweed for migrating Monarch butterflies. Your personal bar cart may seem far removed from forests and farmlands, but they are inextricably linked.

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Beverage Cultivation Meadow Production 76

Civil Eats

MARCH 18, 2024

Three acres of meadows provide habitat for insects. Compared to staple crops like corn and rice, wine grapes barely occupy a speck of the world’s farmland, at about 18 million acres. Long, diverse grasses blanket the ground around and between the vines. Soil carbon sequestration is one indicator that we’re on the right track.”

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Farming Farming Meadow Crop 143

Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

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. Collective farms grew local varieties and saved the seed of landraces that flourished in the varied growing environments across the country.

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Seeding Food Maize Cultivation 124

Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

But solar projects are increasingly being refused planning permission and faced with pushback from rural communities and farmers, who are worried that PV arrays will " blight " the local landscape and take fertile farmland out of production. It's getting a lot of flack." Co-locating wildflowers and solar panels can attract pollinators.

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Farming Farming Crop Yield 52