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The Tribal Elder Food Box Program: 94,500 Boxes and Counting

Wisconsin Farmers Union

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Grown in the Community, For the Community The Oneida Nation Apple Orchard is located on 34 acres, just outside of Oneida, Wisconsin. Orchard manager Heather Jordan works year-round to care for 4,443 apple trees, 120 chickens, and three beehives. Its really about health and community wellbeing.

Food

Food Distribution Orchard Production

Guide To Starting a Fruit Orchard on Your Farm

Farmbrite

JUNE 19, 2023

Starting a Fruit Orchard on Your Farm Growing fruit trees or nut trees on your farm is a great way to be more self-sufficient and a great way to add items to your CSA, use the unwanted fruit to supplement feed for your animals, sell at your local farmers market or for personal use. Fruit trees need lots of sun and space to grow properly.

Orchard

Orchard Farming Farming Pruning

Guest Post: Is the Future of Organic Food at Risk? Research Funding Holds the Answer

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This translates to healthier food and a healthier environment and reduces reliance on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. OREI also prioritizes research that takes place on working farms, like this research project that investigated the pest management services a robust bird population can provide orchards.

Food

Food Seeding Poultry Crop

The whole dam truth

Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 25, 2024

By Rowan Jacobsen , July 24, 2019 An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees By Paige Embry , June 20, 2019 In January, with the almond bloom in California’s orchards a month away, beekeepers across the country were fretting over their hives. The process of getting the bees to the almonds adds another stressor. Will it work?

Orchard

Orchard Acre Pesticide Farming

20 Sustainable Sips to Cheer For

Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Drop Bear takes care of some of their energy needs with solar panels and uses excess heat generated during the brewing process to warm their buildings. Mijenta grows agave without pesticides or herbicides. They practice biodynamic agriculture to encourage biodiversity and cultivate successful vineyards without pesticides or herbicides.

Beverage

Beverage Ecology Compost Cultivation

Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In a county that was intentionally poisonedand a world suffering from a changing climatehe is reviving the soil under his feet by transitioning away from pesticide-dependent row crops like tobacco to industrial hemp, which is known to sequester carbon and remediate soil, and using earth-friendly organic and regenerative methods.

Plantation

Plantation Farming Farming Acre

A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. Then billions of crabs died.

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 5, 2023

By Rowan Jacobsen , July 24, 2019 An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees By Paige Embry , June 20, 2019 In January, with the almond bloom in California’s orchards a month away, beekeepers across the country were fretting over their hives. The process of getting the bees to the almonds adds another stressor. Will it work?

Harvest

Harvest Harvester Harvesting Orchard

Regenerative Food Certification: Gold Standard or Greenwashing?

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

But she maintains that “organic is still really important,” and that’s why USDA organic standards, food grown without most pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, is the minimum baseline for the ROC certification. During this transition period, farmers have to adhere to organic regulations without benefiting from the price premium.

Food

Food Ranching Ecology Fertilizer

The deep roots of Mexico’s trade dispute with U.S. over GMO corn

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 21, 2022

By Rowan Jacobsen , July 24, 2019 An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees By Paige Embry , June 20, 2019 In January, with the almond bloom in California’s orchards a month away, beekeepers across the country were fretting over their hives. The process of getting the bees to the almonds adds another stressor. Will it work?

Orchard

Orchard Acre Pesticide Farming

Trouble at sea

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 11, 2023

By Rowan Jacobsen , July 24, 2019 An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees By Paige Embry , June 20, 2019 In January, with the almond bloom in California’s orchards a month away, beekeepers across the country were fretting over their hives. The process of getting the bees to the almonds adds another stressor. Will it work?

Orchard

Orchard Acre Pesticide Farming

A chilling effect: How farms can help pollinators survive the stress of climate change

Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

By Rowan Jacobsen , July 24, 2019 An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees By Paige Embry , June 20, 2019 In January, with the almond bloom in California’s orchards a month away, beekeepers across the country were fretting over their hives. The process of getting the bees to the almonds adds another stressor. Will it work?

Farming

Farming Farming Orchard Acre

New School Meal Standards Could Put More Local Food on Students’ Lunch Trays

Civil Eats

APRIL 30, 2024

Starting July 1, when districts put out a call for an unprocessed or minimally processed food—whether it’s tomatoes, taco meat, or tuna—they’ll be able to specify that they’d like it to be “locally grown, locally raised, or locally caught.” “We’re. We’re. That’s where this change comes in.

Food

Food Orchard Cattle Processing

Organic Farming for Ecosystem Biodiversity & Diversity – Larchgrove Farm, Barrhead County

RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

They’re also in the process of establishing a shelter belt and heirloom flower garden. Today, Jenna and Thomas are in the process of rebuilding the market vegetable and herb garden, while focusing on restoring health and vitality back into the compacted hayfield. We’re growing peas and oats to bring nitrogen back into the soil.

Farming

Farming Farming Forage Seeding

Regenerative Orchard Floor Management

UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Maximizing Photosynthesis: The #1 Soil Health Building Approach B y: Chuck Schembre , Understanding Ag, LLC In the previous regenerative orchard blog, we discussed the connection between perennial crops and soil fungi , and introduced the importance of maximizing photosynthesis on the orchard floor. Historically in the western U.S.,

Orchard

Orchard Seeding Crop Acre

Our mango republic

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 20, 2023

As a result, countless people have been caught in a bureaucratic bottleneck, as Mexico’s immigration system struggles to process a surge in cases. an hour for his work in the mango orchards. Hours later, though, he messaged me again saying he had borrowed money to cover the cost of his immigration process. “Am Am I crazy?”

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Agriculture Agriculture Plantation Harvest

Agriculture Informer

The Tribal Elder Food Box Program: 94,500 Boxes and Counting

Guide To Starting a Fruit Orchard on Your Farm

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Guest Post: Is the Future of Organic Food at Risk? Research Funding Holds the Answer

The whole dam truth

20 Sustainable Sips to Cheer For

Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. Then billions of crabs died.

Regenerative Food Certification: Gold Standard or Greenwashing?

The deep roots of Mexico’s trade dispute with U.S. over GMO corn

Trouble at sea

A chilling effect: How farms can help pollinators survive the stress of climate change

New School Meal Standards Could Put More Local Food on Students’ Lunch Trays

Organic Farming for Ecosystem Biodiversity & Diversity – Larchgrove Farm, Barrhead County

Regenerative Orchard Floor Management

Our mango republic

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