Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Rufino Vargas walked along the border of his greenhouse, on the westside of Detroit this summer, collecting chili peppers. Ortega Urban Farms, which Vargas built from scratch over two decades on a pair of vacant lots, is a labor of love rooted in his rural childhood, where agricultural techniques were part of the family lore.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 2, 2024

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. Tragically, working in the food system amplifies the risk of heat-related illness and death. It’s shameful that many food system workers across the globe are not shown even basic levels of care when it comes to heat. In the U.S.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Current food systems are responsible for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions and for nearly 80 percent of biodiversity loss. The country has pioneered a move towards agroecology for two decades and has already seen a 4 percent improvement in rural food security.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Especially when it comes to food systems. Governments are still failing to recognize food systems as a critical lever for change—despite food systems pumping out one-third of greenhouse gas emissions, and climate chaos decimating harvests and slowing productivity. But among the doom and gloom shine beacons of hope.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Last year, in the lead-up to COP27, the biggest global convening on climate change, many groups worked to call attention to the fact that governments and businesses were not doing nearly enough to address food and agriculture in their plans to tackle the crisis. Food Systems Summit in 2021. consumers of all kinds,” said Nabarro.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Are you a greenhouse grower looking to save money on your heating bill? Or maybe you are looking to decrease the carbon footprint of your greenhouse? Either way, passive solar greenhouse growing might be for you! It is likely the largest passive solar greenhouse you can find in Alberta too: 330 feet x 28 feet.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2022

There is great potential for strawberries in rural CEA settings. However, this article makes a case for utilizing CEA in rural environments with various benefits. The latter set of systems is “advanced and a critical part of our food system.” Greenhouses and even hoop houses have long been considered part of the CEA landscape.

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Food Tank

JULY 8, 2023

These 20 summer reads are guaranteed to broaden readers’ perspectives on food, agriculture, and society. Whether you’re a food enthusiast, an avid home cook, or are simply passionate about the relationship between food, identity, and society, this list has a book to satisfy any palate.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Corn and soybeans dominate the Hawkeye State’s rural landscapes. The pandemic and subsequent higher food prices have boosted interest in farming differently, several ag experts said. The organization works with growers and food hubs in eastern and central Iowa counties. This story was originally published on Investigate Midwest.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county. In the rural Hecks Grove communityless than a mile from where Robert E. As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7

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Sustainable Harvest International

MARCH 12, 2025

Through this partnership, the Belize program and Shipstern are working together to conserve critical forestland and waterways that provide essential wildlife habitats and support the livelihoods of rural farmers. Farmers in the Honduras TREE program participate in a workshop at a community greenhouse.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 3, 2024

The issue most cited across critiques was simple: When urban farms were separated from community gardens in the study, the higher rate of greenhouse gas emissions reported essentially disappeared. Overall, they found greenhouse gas emissions were six times higher at the urban sites—and that’s the conclusion the study led with.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 12, 2023

The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) applauds USDA’s commitment of funds to improve the tracking and analysis of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. As the agency increasingly focuses on implementing incentive-based support for reducing agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, effective measurement becomes ever more vital.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Increase the efficiency and reduce labor costs of seeding transplant trays in your greenhouse with this self-built vacuum seeder. Increase the efficiency and reduce labor costs of seeding transplant trays in your greenhouse with this self-built vacuum seeder. Department of Agriculture.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 5, 2024

Share this I am an expert on wasting food, if only because I do it so much. Almost nothing — except for this week, when I committed to tracking my food and what becomes of it. Almost nothing — except for this week, when I committed to tracking my food and what becomes of it. Approximately 40 percent of all food in the U.S.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 9, 2024

I don’t think that food disruption is just a vague possibility, I think it is inevitable, and that communities should be preparing for it.” Food security, at its core is, access to affordable, nutritious, culturally appropriate foods. Food insecurity is when that choice and that access are taken away.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

Walla Walla’s hands-on coursework is bringing together agriculture and culinary students as part of a nascent movement among community colleges that are increasingly bringing food production into curricula in new and innovative ways. Walla Walla Community College hopes to offer surplus agricultural products at its food pantry, too.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

After years of philanthropic support for fisheries, water, and education, members of his generation (along with some of their elders) are not only accelerating that environmental focus, they’re applying it to food and agriculture in new ways. Then there’s the Walmart Foundation, which last year gave the Nature Conservancy $1.5

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ATTRA

AUGUST 9, 2024

According to a press release, the report shows that organic produce and agriculture benefit human health, the planet, and the farmers and farmworkers who grow our food in a multitude of ways. Finally, the higher premiums associated with organic products enhance farmers’ livelihoods and boost rural economies.

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The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

The volatility of wet and dry years, the lack of water infrastructure, and the continued depletion of groundwater resources adds up to California losing its resilience to cope with future droughts and to preserve future food security. Example of cropland within and one mile around several rural disadvantaged communities in Tulare County.

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

An underground greenhouse currently under construction in Pine Ridge. Editor’s Note: Historically, many indigenous communities in America have faced food insecurity and poverty , often as a direct result of government policy. This is an underground greenhouse, or walipini, and the harvesters are members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The EFFECTIVE Food Procurement Act outlines a new, values-based approach for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to purchase commodities that supply child, senior, and community nutrition programs across the nation. USDA spends roughly $6 billion annually on food for nutrition programs nationwide.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 26, 2023

Since its launch in 2020, the Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production (OUAIP) has invested over $50 million in urban, suburban, and rural areas, strengthening networks of growers and consumers through infrastructure, education, and local planning initiatives.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

million in 2020, Boehnlein worked with Snohomish County to pass the Rural Village Housing Demonstration Program ordinance in 2023. Beyond tools, this also includes critical infrastructure such as onsite cold storage, a refrigerated van, a greenhouse for plant starts, and washing facilities.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

Since taking over the dairy a decade ago and branding it Foggy Bottoms Boys , the couple has been bucking convention and helping their rural community navigate changing economic tides. A lot of people don’t understand why my cheese costs [four times more than] Walmart’s.” “We’re an important fabric of these rural communities.”

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

As a researcher of urban agriculture, I was shocked to see a recent news article bearing the headline “ Food from urban agriculture has a carbon footprint six times larger than conventional produce, study shows.” with the Berkeley Food Institute, and this conclusion seemed to fly in the face of all that I’d read.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

It’s a great gateway crop,” says Don DiLillo, owner of Finest Foods in Huntington, New York, for ushering in a new breed of novice farmers. Photography submitted by Don DiLillo, Finest Foods. Photography submitted by Don DiLillo, Finest Foods. Plus, he adds, “I can do farm chores in my pajamas.”

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

Murphy Family Farms (later bought by Smithfield Foods) helped out with the loan needed to get started. It’s important, she says, to see farmers as allies in building a different food system. “We I want people to be able to come out in the country and be in nature and actually see where their food comes from.”

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

But the key points are: The National Farmers Union has supported the ethanol industry as it has helped farmers maintain a stronger market and has reduced the greenhouse gas emissions of the transportation industry. The overall impact of the greenhouse gas reductions of ethanol compared to gasoline are therefore hard to balance.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

APRIL 8, 2024

The rice was grown using climate-smart practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60-95% and reduce water use by at least 33%. Vilsack spoke about the challenges that farmers and rural communities are facing, commenting that, “Agriculture is the only industry where you can be the very best and still not make a living.”

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2024

In rural Mariposa County, where many large, historic ranches have been replaced by smaller residential parcels that can easily get overgrown, Happy Goat provides help. Happy Goat also helps recycle food waste from local school cafeterias, using it to create compost for small school gardens and its farm.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Food Tank’s Dispatch from the U.N. To make sure it lands straight in your inbox and to be among the first to receive it, subscribe to Food Tank’s newsletter now by clicking here. Yesterday, the food movement grappled with some potentially significant setbacks from this week at COP28. This is the food moment.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

public, across party lines, is concerned about the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food production. Farming is also an important contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Side by side with that loss of diversity was a long growth in greenhouse gas emissions that has only recently begun to be addressed.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Food Tank’s Dispatch from the U.N. To make sure it lands straight in your inbox and to be among the first to receive it, subscribe to Food Tank’s newsletter now by clicking here. It’s Food, Agriculture, and Water day at COP28 in Dubai. Meaningful action on food systems starts at the grassroots level—literally. “If

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 22, 2023

Last week, NSAC hosted farmers, ranchers, and food system advocates from six states, who collectively attended nearly 20 meetings with Congressional offices and USDA officials, to share their stories and call for stronger, better-funded sustainable agriculture programs in the next farm bill.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Editor’s Note: Urban agriculture is very important to us at Agritecture, as it makes cities more green while also providing food to the local community. This article features Henry Gordon-Smith , our Founder and CEO, in a dialogue on how to make cities greener while also increasing food security for their residents. We said: “Farming?

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

In addition to sharing their stories and insights, the people we interviewed had a lot of helpful advice—both for farmers hoping to change the way they farm and for non-farmers who are interested in where their food comes from. Here is some of that advice, edited for length and clarity. For farmers: You’re not alone.

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