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The Rancher's Guide to Sustainable Grazing Practices

Farmbrite

As the sun sets over the rolling hills and the cattle graze peacefully in the meadows, it's easy to appreciate the timeless beauty of ranching. Sustainable grazing practices help maintain healthy pastures and ecosystems, reduce the environmental impact of ranching, and enhance the overall well-being of the animals in your care.

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Measuring and Valuing: Farmers, workers and community

Sustainable Food Trust

During the pilot, a six-week programme of farm-based activities was offered to participants, including spending time with farm animals, farm walks, foraging and harvesting, healthy cooking demonstrations, collecting honey and getting occupational experience.

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Changing How We Farm Might Protect Wild Mammals—and Fight Climate Change

Civil Eats

Strips of trees, bushes, grasses, or flowers around agricultural or pasture fields can house higher numbers of small mammals than cropland. For instance, agriculture can destroy forest habitats that certain bat species, like the endangered Indiana bat or northern long-eared bat , use for roosting and foraging. Runoff from U.S.

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Summer reading 2024: Our recommended food and farming reads

Sustainable Food Trust

The author’s journey into landscapes of the past and the foods they provide takes him far and wide – starting in Çatalhöyük where humans first settled on the land becoming place-based, cultivating emmer wheat and barley, yet still hunting and foraging their food. Agriculture had not yet quite arrived as a practice and food was abundant.

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Fifty years of nurturing nature

Sustainable Food Trust

Our permanent pastures are beautifully diverse with plant mixtures that change and evolve over the years. The diversity that the cows graze and eat as forage and the cereals in the parlour, is the ‘blas y tir’ or ‘terroir’ that makes their milk taste sweet and our cheese unique.

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