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How the Next Generation of Farmers is Getting Creative with Land Access

Modern Farmer

Backyard farms may need infrastructure for things ranging from drip lines and irrigation systems to hoop houses or greenhouses. Investing in Real Estate as a Means to Farm Jamie and Doug Wickler were engineers, but the 2008 crash made them reconsider career paths. They see it as an eco model that is very interesting.”

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Cultivating Profits in a Compact Crop

Modern Farmer

Given the cost of Long Island real estate, the space efficiency is “one of the great benefits of [farming] microgreens,” says DiLillo. 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.

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Young Farmers’ Analysis of the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024

National Young Farmers Coalition

As it reads now, the bill fails to prioritize equitable farmland access, divests from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and strikes climate provisions that would assist farmers in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preparing for extreme weather events. The committee considered the bill in a 13.5-hour

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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. I was young, I was in my 20s. (To

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Elementor #747575

National Young Farmers Coalition

This pilot is sorely needed by prospective borrowers facing the pressures of the current real estate market. 2501); requires at least 80% of the funds to be used for easements that will most reduce, capture, avoid, or sequester greenhouse gas emissions associated with land eligible for the program as laid out in the IRA (Sec.