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Farm to School Program at Holmen School District is Growing Year-Round

Fork Farms

The district, with classroom applications, manages and feeds the kids food from their 85-tree apple orchard, large outdoor garden, indoor greenhouse, and most recently their Flex Farms. In Holmen , the students learn with hands-on activities, including greenhouse and orchard management where they care for a variety of plants and food.

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Hydroponics Help Urban Schools Grow Food Year-Round

Agritecture Blog

CONTENT SOURCED FROM CIVIL EATS Written by: Lisa Held January 13, 2023 Inside a 4,000-square-foot greenhouse in west Baltimore at the end of June, untended basil plants were falling over and going to seed. Reidy, the founder and CEO of a real estate design company that helped build and raise funds for the Green Street greenhouse.

Food 52
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Cultivating Profits in a Compact Crop

Modern Farmer

Customers now include nearby restaurants, and with business booming, he’s put a 10-by-20-foot greenhouse in the backyard and hopes to upgrade to a larger vertical farming structure in the near future. One of Kupu’s two employees, she started orchard farming at 16. Kaʻinapu Cavasso agrees.

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Building Resilience Through the Conservation Stewardship Program

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

In August 2022, Congress passed the historic Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a landmark piece of legislation that provided nearly $20 billion dollars to the United States Department of Agriculture for various programs capable of reducing greenhouse gasses across our food and farm system, including CSP.

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‘An Insane Amount of Water’: What Climate Change Means For California’s Biggest Dairy District

Modern Farmer

Orchards, vines and other perennials cultivated as long-term investments have steadily replaced ephemeral crops such as tomatoes and cotton, which are far less costly to sacrifice or replace. They’re currently the only technology in the entire state that reduces methane,” she adds.

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The Fifth National Climate Assessment: Implications for Agriculture

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Moreover, despite a steady growth in total factor productivity (TFP, “a ratio of agricultural outputs produced to inputs used“) since 1948 as a result of technological change, climate change has already dampened TFP, and it is expected to decline to pre-1980 levels by 2050 unless adaptation measures adequately respond.

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The Night Shift

Modern Farmer

A forthcoming analysis previewed exclusively by Grist found that, on average, the amount of time considered unsafe to work outside during a typical 9-to-5 workday will increase 8 percent by 2050, assuming greenhouse gas emissions stay on their current trajectory. Led by Naia Ormaza Zulueta, a Ph.D. Photography via Shutterstock.