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Measuring and Valuing: Farmers, workers and community

Sustainable Food Trust

While these networks remain strong in many ways, there are also vulnerabilities due to the erosion of local services and infrastructure within rural communities. He sees it as a way of revitalising rural communities and giving space for new enterprises to develop. Straus feels that “ collaborating with the next generation is essential.”

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Food and Farming at the Forefront of Labour’s Missions for Change – September 2024

Sustainable Food Trust

[xviii] For example, Clifton Ings and Rawcliffe Meadows are a crucial part of the City of York’s flood defences. xix] Regenerative agriculture also has potential to support resilient rural communities and jobs. [xix] xix] Regenerative agriculture also has potential to support resilient rural communities and jobs.

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Apprenticeships Bring a Fresh Generation to Small Dairy Farms

Civil Eats

Hes also an accountant, squaring the numbers for his central Minnesota farm by hand; a herder, rotating 75 cows between pastures; a crop farmer, raising 300 acres of feed like corn and hay; and a mechanic, repairing the equipment necessary to tend that acreage. Their got a minute?

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