Harvester Harvesting Seeding Textiles 
Modern Farmer
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Farmer Jeremy Dunphy stands next to his four-acre test plot, brimming with flax as a cover crop, sharing what he’s learned with a crowd of 20 farmers, textile artists, designers, and educators. What they need is a supply chain and market that can handle the harvest. Farmers can grow flax for fiber or flax for seeds.
Modern Farmer
DECEMBER 4, 2023
But the varieties now springing up in places that have long been dominated by corn, wheat and soybeans aren’t meant to be used for seed. Demand is on the rise for sustainably made clothing and other textiles. Heidi Barr and Emma De Long, the co-founders of the PA Flax Project, harvest flax at Kneehigh Farm in 2020.
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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. In Congo, the seeds are bigger, so we just plant them in the ground. Wikongo and Bista oversee the farm crew.
NASDA
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
Since the beginning of the year, the harvest price of major crops traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Intercontinental Exchange have fallen by an average of 21% while total production costs remain near record levels. Estimated 2024 net farm income for U.S. agriculture is projected to be down $55.61
Civil Eats
APRIL 2, 2024
From architecture teams experimenting with it as a sustainable building material, to clinical applications treating binge-drinking and chefs harvesting it as a wild edible, environmental journalist Ayurella Horn-Muller investigates how kudzu’s notorious reputation in America is gradually being cast aside in favor of its promise.
Daily Yonder
APRIL 3, 2024
Pridgen says that this garden is a “food forest” where the harvest is donated to serve the community. Grayson LandCare Members bring in a harvest from the Permaculture Garden. In this framework, an entrepreneurial farmer was able to partner with members who produce artisan textiles. In Mouth of Wilson, there was a fiber mill.
Civil Eats
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Seaweed naturally absorbs carbon as it grows, but unless it is harvested, it decomposes and releases carbon back. In China and Korea, where seaweed farming first developed into a larger industry, governments provide kelp seed to farmers for free or at a subsidized cost. And many startups have benefited from those E.U.
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