Civil Eats

MARCH 18, 2024

Three acres of meadows provide habitat for insects. He was resistant, since he’d already put in so much time building up that habitat to accommodate insects that like to eat other pests, and the meadows that will bloom in a few months host crucial pollinators, providing countless other ecosystem benefits beyond the vines.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 21, 2023

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. Concept AgriTek has hired Mike DeLaughter to lead operational success and efficiency efforts in the newly created role of Director of Operations. Traction Ag Inc. ,

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Beyond that, pollinators such as bees are key participants in agriculture, and we depend on them for our food. A meadow planted by TDOT at a highway interchange. Planting the roadsides for monarchs will also be good for insect pollinators in general. These roadside plantings aim to connect habitat, rather than fragment it.

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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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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We’ll offer havens of protection and nourishment to lead our culture into stable families, fertile soil, nourishing food, working faith, and overall health. They don’t watch TV all evening; they can tomatoes and chase fireflies in the meadow. They make great patron saints to buy authentic food and keep me in business.

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The Equation

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Globally, wetlands such as peatlands, mangroves, salt marshes, and seagrass meadows cover 6% of the world’s surface. A report this year by the US Fish and Wildlife Service found between 2009 and 2019, the nation lost enough acreage of forest and scrub wetlands to equal the size of Rhode Island.

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The Lunatic Farmer

APRIL 11, 2022

Learn how to use energy medicine, essential oils, healing herbs, homeopathic remedies, supplements, and nutrient-dense foods to create a resilient body, mind and spirit. 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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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 example, is ‘x’ hectares of woodland, or ‘y’ hectares of species rich hay meadow, good? Or is it too little? At what level do we move from good to bad?

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

The biodiversity generated by the farm’s productivity exists together with the biodiversity that flourishes naturally, they are not mutually exclusive – our traditionally managed hay meadows are alive at the moment with invertebrates, birds and mammals. The post Fifty years of nurturing nature first appeared on Sustainable Food Trust.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

CONTENT SOURCED FROM DE ZEEN Written by: Jennifer Hahn January 5, 2023 Next-gen solar parks that enable energy and food production as well as water conservation to work in synergy on the same plot can help to solve solar 's growing land-use issue, according to the researchers making them a reality.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 22, 2023

Loss of natural food sources mean tribal citizens now have to rely more on grocery stores than in the past. When you don’t have the funds to purchase foods that are healthier, or better quality, you’re going to get what you can get [to] fill your stomach,” says Shirell Parfait-Dardar, Parfait’s predecessor as chief.

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The Equation

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Globally, wetlands such as peatlands, mangroves, salt marshes, and seagrass meadows cover 6% of the worlds surface. A report this year by the US Fish and Wildlife Service found between 2009 and 2019, the nation lost enough acreage of forest and scrub wetlands to equal the size of Rhode Island.

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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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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Farming and food production are central to UK society. The importance of a sustainable and regenerative future for food and farming is integral to three of these missions: economic stability and growth, health and renewing the NHS, and greening the economy to reach net zero commitments. [i] This level of ambition is needed again now.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Hundreds of acres of Bristol farmland, with its meadows and hedges and resident wildlife, was swept away by the concrete sprawl and the ambitions of its new owners. The constant threat of loss This year, for the first time in probably hundreds of years, hay has not been made on Yew Tree Farm’s 13 acres of meadow.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

Graves draws upon the example of Troed y Rhiw Organics in Ceredigion, run by the Sustainable Food Trust’s Editor, Alicia Miller, and her partner Nathan Richards. Agriculture had not yet quite arrived as a practice and food was abundant.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2024

Shellfish are a traditional food source for the Shinnecock; they were also once the backbone of Long Island’s robust commercial fishing industry. And they can spell disaster for coastal communities, as 3 billion people globally rely on “blue foods” from the ocean, including shellfish, as a primary source of protein.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 6, 2023

We had grand plans to install a curated pollinator garden in the front and a vegetable garden with a managed meadow in the back. A meadow of native plants can promote healthy soil and draw in pollinators. The outcome was a meadow of purple petals of self-heal, buttery flecks of common yellow wood sorrel and ivory dapples of chickweed.

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Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

They play critical roles in their ecosystems, sustaining and keeping in check species higher and lower on the food chain. First of all, farmland reduces mammals’ natural habitats and diminishes their ability to find shelter as well as food and prey, explained Koen Kuipers, a researcher at Radboud University in the Netherlands.

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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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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. Horse flies have a lifespan of two months but may migrate during colder seasons if there’s not enough food around them locally.

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Sustainable Food Trust

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In the beautiful chapter, “The Heart of the Meadow”, she describes why you “cannot photograph the anticipation and excitement of seeing the hazy brilliance of the whole thing waving slowly”. The post Lessons from a life on the family farm first appeared on Sustainable Food Trust.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

He planted wheat and other grains directly into the meadows and relied solely on rainfall for much of his acreage. food supply. This fails to account for longer-term future risks in the food system, such as aquifers running dry, and farming methods that can help a farm adapt to the growing threat of climate change.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 28, 2025

Afterward, they turn the herd out onto organically managed pasture, where the animals eat freely from clover, alfalfa, and a blend of perennial grasses like meadow bromegrass, orchard grass, and fescue. Her first apprenticeship, with mentor grazier Jeff Biddle at Bear Meadows Farm , threw her into a demanding daily routine.

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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. She tells me she hasn’t turned a profit since the first rows were laid out and the virgin meadow soil was tilled. What do the tomatoes say in return?

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Parents rattled off reports of what they had seen at various places, from the big box outlets to the local food co-op, from high-end Whole Foods to discounters like Grocery Outlet and WinCo. food system since the COVID-19 quarantine, which created a rush on vegetable seeds and baby chicks. Which brands were available?

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