Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

Textiles are a major source of microplastics in the ocean, where they weave their way into the food chain, causing untold harms to marine life. Fashion contributes around 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, second only to big oil. In the US, 85 percent of used clothes and other textiles are sent to the landfill.

Textiles 98

Textiles Manufacturing Production Processing 98

Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 31, 2024

He went on to talk about the studies being done on greenhouse gases in relation to sheep farming and the potential for wool to be a carbon sink, with around 40% of a sheep’s fleece consisting of carbon. Why are we competing on a global scale when we have good markets in the UK for fibres and textiles?

Production 111

Production Textiles Greenhouse Farming 111

ATTRA

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Growing concerns about textile-derived microplastics, land-use impacts, “fast fashion,” and human rights have prompted an industry-wide shift to seek natural fiber sources with verified benefits to land and climate.

Textiles 75

Textiles Manufacturing Ranching Greenhouse 75

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

It was there she met Meg Erskine, co-founder and CEO of the Multicultural Refugee Coalition (MRC), the non-profit that oversees New Leaf and a textile manufacturing studio located at the church. Bista’s son Bal is New Leaf’s chicken and greenhouse manager, and he and his in-laws also have community farmer plots.

Crop 104

Crop Cultivation Textiles Farming 104

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

(Graph by Our World in Data) “If we targeted just a small amount of some of the very worst offending sources of these oils, palm oil plantations or soybeans that are grown on areas recently cleared in the Amazon, we can make very large reductions in some of the greenhouse gas emissions,” says Davis.

Crop 95

Crop Farming Farming Plantation 95

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

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.

Plantation 113

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 113

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The soybeans and corn are processed into animal feed and ethanol, mostly outside the region; the cotton is exported to textile mills in Asia. He showed me the stacks of donated piping that hes going to set up in a greenhouse so he can grow food hydroponically, year-round and free from pests. Only the rice becomes food for humans.

Acre 52

Acre Farming Farming Crop 52