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Op-Ed | A Case for Food Diversification

Food Tank

Securing seeds and equipment and building climate-smart infrastructure like greenhouses, requires funding. Integrating livestock with crops can create a closed-loop system where manure provides fertilizer and reduces reliance on external inputs. The shift toward farm diversification has its share of challenges, of course.

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Op-Ed | USDA Opens the Door to Climate-Friendly School Meals

Food Tank

They also allow nuts and seeds to count as meats/meat alternates in school meals and bean dips like hummus to count as a smart snack. Dairy products also produce a tremendous amount of greenhouse gases. The standards also allow more flexibility to offer traditional Indigenous foods and make it easier for schools to purchase local food.

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Meet the Poultry Farmer Teaching Others How to Make Regenerative Farming Add Up

Modern Farmer

Industrial farming contributes around 11 percent of total US greenhouse gas emissions, not including the transportation of the food. Transportation contributes around 27 percent of the total greenhouse gas emissions. “I Trees and grass sequester 5-10 times more carbon than grass alone.

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Spotlight: Climate-Related Marker Bills for the Upcoming Farm Bill

CalCAN

It would cover the cost of installing equipment and infrastructure for dry scraping manure or separating solids to produce compost for bedding, for application to fields as a substitute for chemical fertilizer, or for sale. Transitioning to or increasing pasture-based production would also be eligible. agriculture by the year 2040.

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Federal Climate Policy: Agriculture Resilience Act Re-Introduced

CalCAN

From losing seed crops as wildfires rage for weeks, to losing entire crops as a result of erratic freezes, to losing farms as drought dries up available water, farmers’ risks are rising. Farming is also an important contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Farmers across the country are experiencing climate impacts as a crisis.

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How to Improve Long-Term Soil Health on Your Farm

Farmbrite

Lastly, not tilling can also help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Finally, if you apply too much compost or manure into your fields when they're already saturated with nitrogen, you could end up trapping harmful gases like methane beneath the surface of your field, where it will continue contributing greenhouse gases into our atmosphere!

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Organic Farming for Ecosystem Biodiversity & Diversity – Larchgrove Farm, Barrhead County

RR2CS

Through careful observation of land and climate, Jenna and Thomas have gradually built two cabins, a greenhouse, an organic market garden, and apiary. Then, we planted green manures and cover crops to help build up the topsoil again, which had been pretty depleted over the years. Why are there not more BIPOC seed keepers?

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