Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2025

Years ago, author Paula Whyman left her DC-area home in search of a rural spot, hoping to get back to nature. Around forty years ago, most of the orchards were replaced with cattle pasture. An old pasture filled in with blackberry. It would serve as a living example of how to restore native meadows!

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Hundreds of acres of Bristol farmland, with its meadows and hedges and resident wildlife, was swept away by the concrete sprawl and the ambitions of its new owners. The constant threat of loss This year, for the first time in probably hundreds of years, hay has not been made on Yew Tree Farm’s 13 acres of meadow.

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RR2CS

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Based on my experience working with Rural Routes to Climate Solutions over the last six years, agriculture has enough humility and modesty when it comes to belief in one’s self. The differences between South Glanton and Bla-Kar weren’t as big as the differences between the three farms I wrote about in Regenerating Rural Opportunities.

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Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

Strips of trees, bushes, grasses, or flowers around agricultural or pasture fields can house higher numbers of small mammals than cropland. They avoid using pesticides and heavy equipment that could compact the soil, plant flowers in their gardens to attract beneficial insects, and maintain meadows with native plants.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

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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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

[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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Civil Eats

JANUARY 28, 2025

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. Ben Wagner may be a dairy farmer, but that job description is woefully incomplete.

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