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This Gardener Gets Tomato Harvests Year-Round With This Unique Growing Strategy

Modern Farmer

One gardener has figured out how to push the boundaries of tomato growing and harvest fresh fruits throughout the year. Jacques doesnt use a heated greenhouse or even a high tunnel…but he does live in San Diego. Indeterminate varieties grow taller and yield continuously until frost.

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Precision Ag News 11/14

Agwired

Agriculture to Be Greenhouse Gas Negative,” was authored by 26 leading independent researchers and peer reviewed by the National Academy of Sciences. million to fund increased education and adoption of climate-smart practices that will help increase carbon sequestration and reduce greenhouse gases. The report, “The Potential for U.S.

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JM Fortier Wants to Help More Small-Scale Farmers Grow Vegetables in Winter

Civil Eats

On a recent video call, the renowned Canadian market farmer and educator Jean-Martin “JM” Fortier stood in a greenhouse, wearing a winter vest and talking about the wide variety of fresh herbs and greens—from sweet spinach to cilantro to frilly mustard greens—tucked snugly into rows behind him. “We

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‘Nothing’s Predictable’: Extreme Weather is Ruining Farmers’ Crops and Finances

Daily Yonder

By 7:30 the next morning, he and his crew were out in the mud, trying to harvest all they could save. The catastrophe came at a particularly hard time of year for farmers to face disaster: In early summer, many are heavily invested in their season, but not yet able to harvest. Soon, the river began to rise.

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Report Finds That Agriculture Is Breaching Several Planetary Boundaries

Food Tank

Mckinsey finds that human activity has already extended beyond the “safe operating space” for four of these boundaries: biodiversity loss, chemical and plastic pollution, nutrient pollution, and greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. As a sector, agriculture has the single largest direct impact on planetary boundaries.

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy. Across the road, peacocks shriek.

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Op-Ed | Why the World’s Food Systems Need to Transition Away from Industrial Agriculture

Food Tank

Current food systems are responsible for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions and for nearly 80 percent of biodiversity loss. In Mexico, climate change has caused a decline in yields—including a 35 percent reduction in the bean crop while increasingly ferocious hurricanes have wiped out fruit crops.