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Good Goats Make Good Neighbors

Civil Eats

Lawn mowers, weed eaters, chainsaws, tractors, and trimmers can all spark a wildland fire if used during the wrong time of year,” Garrett says. Jessica Segale talks about her work as Happy Goat’s greenhouse manager and produce grown on their regenerative farm in the Sierra Nevada foothill community of Mariposa, California.

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Dispatch from the U.N. Climate Change Conference: Saturday, Dec. 10

Food Tank

The farmer of the future is just as likely to wear a lab coat as they are to drive tractors, says Evan Fraser, Professor of Geography at the University of Guelph, at the Food4Climate Pavilion. emits greenhouse gas equal to that of 50 million gas-powered cars. Start composting: via NRDC : Food waste in the U.S. Read more HERE.

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Waste and Water Woes

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

CAFOs — specifically their large manure lagoons — are also a huge source of methane , a potent greenhouse gas, as well as ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and particulate matter, 3 all of which pose risks to human health. United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development. Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.

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