Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

Food grown in local fields, orchards, and pastures with healthy soil management practices simply make for healthier, more nutritious, and more flavorful meals, he says—the perfect ingredients for changing the “stigma” associated with hospital fare. Davis Med Center. Obviously, we’re not going to change patient behavior.

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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. Two hundred years ago, many of these hillsides were timbered for orchards. Around forty years ago, most of the orchards were replaced with cattle pasture. An old pasture filled in with blackberry.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Johnson added trees to grazing land to create silvopastures, enhanced existing windbreaks and planted a micro-orchard with fruit and nut trees. His mother’s family were dairy farmers, and the land had consisted of pasture and row crop fields. It’s an exciting opportunity to revive our rural communities.”

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

Next, they purchased a no-drill seeder together, and it allowed them to plant rows of grain directly into orchards and pastures without tilling, a practice known to benefit the soil. Similarly, buying a no-till drill allowed Gonzales-Siemens to expand the use of cover crops in his orchards and further protect the soil. “[The

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

For example, at Eckert’s Farm in Belleville, MO, Chris Eckert has seen extreme freezes killing off parts of his peach orchard. Anthony, IN, has substantially reduced the impacts of downpours on his farm by adopting managed rotational grazing and improving his pastures. A clover crop interseeded into pasture.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

The authors do not discuss the advantages of highly-managed pasture carbon sequestration outweighing the emissions of associated livestock. the Osage Nation’s community orchard. Some solutions offered include grass banks for pasture areas experiencing drought as well as temporary leasing of water.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Even monarch butterflies have lost habitat due to the prevalence of monocrop avocado orchards, along the once lush, biodiverse hillsides of Michoacán in Mexico. It reads as a love letter to his land, his herd, and his rural community and a manifesto on how and why to farm in a way that protects them all.

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