The Farmers Daughter USA

JUNE 12, 2023

Although most of us imagine that it has something to do with swapping plastic straws for paper straw, it’s something that goes much further. These tiny particles can be ingested by aquatic organisms and can enter the food chain, potentially impacting human health. A Pressing Problem Plastic pollution is a major problem.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

And in a region where many residents suffer from diet-related illnesses and do not have easy access to grocery stores selling fresh foods, Patrick offers vegetable boxes through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, as well as by producing hemp-derived CBD products meant to reduce chronic pain by holistic, non-pharmaceutical methods.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 19, 2024

Grown in a combination of manure and straw, they produce a distinct kind of spent substrate that is also used as compost, though it is a very different material from specialty mushroom substrate, with fewer applications. “We In the U.S.,

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Caff

JANUARY 24, 2024

Some get food by living intertwined with plants or animals. These fungi are most often parasitic (stealing food in the form of sugars) to the detriment of the host) or symbiotic (a mutually beneficial relationship). A participant breaks open some packed spawn material to spread through the straw.

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Civil Eats

MAY 22, 2024

As the impacts came into focus, advocates and experts who had been pointing to the chicken industry as a model for how food corporations could make real progress toward improving practices that threaten public health looked on in dismay. Julia Johnson, the leader of CIWF’s Compassion in Food Business in the U.S.,

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2023

Called the Nigiri Project for its fish-on-rice concept, it’s a collaboration between researchers and farmers that floods rice fields in the winter, helping to break down rice straw while offering juvenile salmon and waterfowl conditions that mimic the bug-rich floodplain ecosystems to which they’re adapted. That’s not how it works.”

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

David narrowed his eyes beneath his wide-brimmed straw hat and scanned the plain of yellow esparto waving in the hot wind. The post A conversation among shepherds appeared first on Sustainable Food Trust. We’ve had 16 sheep killed by wolves so far this year.” Featured images courtesy of Julie Baber.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2024

Robb sees his work of coaxing beneficial fungi back into the soil, which he largely learned from an online program called the Soil Food Web School , as both a challenge to mainstream agriculture and as a way forward to restore agricultural soils. But working to both protect and encourage fungi on farms is a way to reverse course.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Our next post in the series will explore what the Census shows us about local and regional food systems. The data provided by the Census of Agriculture is an essential and comprehensive tool for all stakeholders to understand what is happening in US agriculture and food.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

In our series of butcher profiles, food and farming writer, Marianne Landzettel, meets butchers from across the UK who have built their business around high welfare, sustainably produced meat. Every Thursday, a group of 20 to 25 is transported in a trailer with thick straw bedding to a small abattoir which is just over six miles away.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Straw and manure for our compost comes from local farms in our neighborhood, which we mix with remains from grapes after theyve been pressed. Other vintners, like Count Michael Goess-Enzenberg, owner of Weingut Manincor i n Alto Adige, Italy, embraces a holistic approach to biodynamic farming and business-building.

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Sustainable Harvest International

APRIL 22, 2024

Local Food Systems SHI trains and empowers family farmers as they transition towards sustainable farming practices. Through our programs, farmers gain the knowledge and skills to nurture the soil and the environment, ensuring a reliable food source for their families. For more sustainable tips, sign up for our newsletter.

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Farmbrite

JANUARY 23, 2025

Animal Feed Recipes for Chicken, Cattle, Sheep, Goat, and Pig Feed Raising livestock can be a rewarding experience, whether you're doing it for fun, food, or as a full-time agricultural business. Local byproducts from farms, mills, or food processors (like unsold produce, leftover grains, or pulp) can be repurposed as animal feed.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

Walking around the farm with experts in pollinator identification, moving at a slow careful pace and with good attention and observation, it feels as though we shrink to the size of a hoverfly as we look at nesting potential and food sources. The post Fifty years of nurturing nature first appeared on Sustainable Food Trust.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2023

The final straw for Hachmyer was losing half of her crops in 2021 to drought. Besides growing a small quantity of zucchini and cucumbers in the summer to sell to a nearby natural foods store, the Burgers will sell most their crops in the winter at a farmers’ market in Portland. “I couldn’t keep martyring myself,” she says.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

If the emissions aren’t from the shoreline, no amount of straw bales is going to improve the air quality,” says John Gillies, an atmospheric physicist at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 6, 2024

It’s also harmful to humans and the environment, exposing us to toxins, polluting ecosystems and entering our food, water and air through microplastics. Our explainer on Food’s Big, Plastic Problem digs into the problem. For most people on the planet, plastic has become inescapable. But what’s the solution?

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As part of a new, two-part series, food and farming writer, Marianne Landzettel, meets with upland farmers in northeast England who explain why the shift to the new farm payments scheme – the Sustainable Farming Incentive – poses an existential threat for many upland farmers. Lambing season starts in April.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 23, 2024

” Yet a number of studies and pilot projects have helped pioneer the composting of dog waste— and unlike biosolids, it’s not being spread on food crops. When any unfinished compost smells, it needs carbon—such as wood chips or shredded straw—and turning. . “That is perhaps why most cities prohibit it.”

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

When two small Western grass-fed beef brands combined forces in the name of growth in fall 2022, Jeff “Trip” Tripician was tapped to lead the newly formed company, Grass Fed Foods. Photo courtesy of Grass Fed Foods) Buyers from Costco, Sysco, and Whole Foods climbed onto a hay wagon, eager to get started.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

Textiles are a major source of microplastics in the ocean, where they weave their way into the food chain, causing untold harms to marine life. The claim is controversial, however, in terms of biodegradability and because plant-based plastics require crops such as corn and farmland that could have been used to grow food.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Much of the wool was saturated with organic matter such as manure, straw and leaves. As she undertook the cumbersome process of cleaning the wool, Maksymiuk realized she would end up with a lot of unusable material. Bags of this “waste wool” sat around for a long time, with Maksymiuk unsure what to do with it.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

While some farmers are undoubtedly making real efforts to farm in more sustainable ways, all the indications to date suggest that the bulk of the food we consume will continue to be produced in exploitative ways that are associated with a wide range of negative impacts and increased risks , including reductions in important soil microorganisms.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 14, 2025

In summer, the 62 cows within the herd give birth on pasture, in winter they are moved to a spacious calving box with deep straw bedding in the barn. While the cows are being milked, the group of calves waits in a special pen with deep straw bedding. The post The Sustainable Meat Challenge appeared first on Sustainable Food Trust.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JUNE 29, 2022

Smithfield Foods Inc. Buried in the Wall Street Journal story is probably the straw that broke the camel’s back: Proposition 12 passed in 2018 that outlaws the use of gestation crates for sows on factory farms. It operates 45 plants throughout the U.S., owned by umbrella company WHGroup Ltd. times higher than anywhere else).

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Voices of farm workers, young people in shorts and muck boots and wide brimmed straw hats drift across the fields. How does the act of growing food and eating become transactional? I remember a warm summer day, the sun casting shadows of cornstalks on freshly tilled humic soil. We get to the end of the corn row and it’s noon.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Your food prices Inflation has cooled significantly since 2022 , but high prices — especially high food prices — remain a concern for many Americans. Meanwhile, Trump has said he will tax imported goods to lower food prices , though analysts have pointed out that the tax would likely do the opposite.

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