Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The tall forage stands out in southeastern Minnesota’s corn and soybean fields, which this time of year have been reduced to stubble poking through the snow. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently called on three state agencies to take action to protect the health of rural residents.

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RR2CS

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Not to mention how handy that strip of greenery adjacent to a wetland can be when your pasture isn’t growing or recovering the way you need it to. Useful Links: Movald Farm Makes An Impact West-Central Forage Association ALUS Canada Young Agrarians Want to learn more?

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RR2CS

MARCH 11, 2024

25:06 – What is forage-finished beef? This podcast has been partially funded by Agriculture and Agri-food Canada The post EP 77 – Healthy Food, Healthy Environment – SoR Part 9 appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions. 15:25 – Peter and Craig talk about the regenerative practices they use on the farm.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

The authors do not discuss the advantages of highly-managed pasture carbon sequestration outweighing the emissions of associated livestock. The authors also note ongoing and increasing “disruptions to the ability of subsistence-based peoples to access food through hunting, fishing, and foraging.” the Osage Nation’s community orchard.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

After heavy grazing, a mixed summer forage is still building soil. Anthony, IN, has substantially reduced the impacts of downpours on his farm by adopting managed rotational grazing and improving his pastures. A clover crop interseeded into pasture. The mix includes sorghum-sudangrass, sunn hemp, cowpeas, and millet.

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Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

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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RR2CS

APRIL 25, 2023

20:30 – When should you begin stockpiling forage and how can rotational grazing help? The post EP63 Extended Grazing appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions. The post EP63 Extended Grazing appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions. Useful Links: Young Agrarians Want to learn more?

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

Today, Rod and family raise Angus cattle and a flock of Katahdin sheep on open native and annual forage pastures. They’ve adapted an integrated approach to land management, practicing rotational grazing to improve the quality and biodiversity of the soil, which in turn has provided fertilized soils for growing grain and forage crops.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 25, 2023

An agency of the Government of Alberta, the board acts as a rural municipal service and, during a crisis, provides support to residents of the region. It will take years for the pastures and perennial forages to recover, and that’s only if conditions improve. It all adds up to a smorgasbord for the hungry insects. billion.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

After looking in vain for an affordable local wheat source, Ellis decided to experiment with dry-farming the grain himself on a small piece of land 45 miles north of San Diego, in rural Valley Center. percent, and it’s concentrated in the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys and used mostly for animal forage.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

Bakersfield College boasts an Edible Gardens Catalog program, Kalamazoo Community College offers Sustainable Food Systems Competencies coursework and Greenfield Community College’s Farm and Food Systems covers mushroom foraging and cultivation, permaculture design, beekeeping, food preservation and more.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

While these networks remain strong in many ways, there are also vulnerabilities due to the erosion of local services and infrastructure within rural communities. He sees it as a way of revitalising rural communities and giving space for new enterprises to develop. Straus feels that “ collaborating with the next generation is essential.”

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Leyla Rios, both of MSU Extension, strives to better understand forage present and soil health results from the implementation of conservation practices through an HMI framework. Dr. Lemus has been crucial in assisting the livestock producers across Mississippi understand the needs of each individual pasture toward better soil health.

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Organic Garden Farmer

OCTOBER 3, 2020

I was very much drawn to foraging and eating tropical fruits. This was a tropical food forest, previously having been forested area that was converted to cattle pasture, damaged by soil erosion and was now being converted to edible forestation. Rob: I was privileged to have been raised (although born in Toronto) in Barbados.

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Organic Garden Farmer

OCTOBER 3, 2020

I was very much drawn to foraging and eating tropical fruits. This was a tropical food forest, previously having been forested area that was converted to cattle pasture, damaged by soil erosion and was now being converted to edible forestation. Rob: I was privileged to have been raised (although born in Toronto) in Barbados.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

I’ve been a rural resident and a regenerative farmer for nearly two decades, currently operating an 81-acre farm in a remote corner of northeast Washington State. The question then becomes: How can farmers balance the need for wildlife to live on the landscape with the necessity of producing economically valuable crops?

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

NSAC welcomed the pragmatic Senate bill, the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024 (RPFSA) , as an important step toward completing a bipartisan farm bill reauthorization this year. improving irrigation efficiency, restoring pasture, cover cropping, or nutrient and pest management).

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Our Staff Reporter Grey Moran has a delightful article about foraging , published in Grist, included in the book. smith Slow Drinks: A Field Guide to Foraging and Fermenting Seasonal Sodas, Botanical Cocktails, Homemade Wines, and More By Danny Childs Danny Childs studied ethnobotany in college. To make an amaro (relatively easy!)

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 28, 2025

Hes also an accountant, squaring the numbers for his central Minnesota farm by hand; a herder, rotating 75 cows between pastures; a crop farmer, raising 300 acres of feed like corn and hay; and a mechanic, repairing the equipment necessary to tend that acreage. Ben Wagner may be a dairy farmer, but that job description is woefully incomplete.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

We are rural, urban, and suburban,” she said. Against the backdrop of a carefully managed perennial pasture, the gathering focused on legislative approaches to promoting regenerative farming and ranching practices, which the group believes can galvanize support across partisan and rural-urban divides.

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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

Last fall, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and more than 150 other organizations, including nutrition, sustainable farming, rural development, racial equity, labor, and environmental groups, sent a joint letter to President Biden, urging him to prod Congress to pass a new farm bill this year that transforms the US food system.

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