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Cultivating Profits in a Compact Crop

Modern Farmer

Given the cost of Long Island real estate, the space efficiency is “one of the great benefits of [farming] microgreens,” says DiLillo. Two years ago, after a grueling search in Oahu’s tight real estate market, the cousins landed on a residential property in Kahaluu, on the island’s windward coast. Kaʻinapu Cavasso agrees.

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

Civil Eats

Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s. as an account executive in the real estate market for the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited. He made good money, but rather than putting it into the farm, he splurged. I was young, I was in my 20s.

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Hydroponics Help Urban Schools Grow Food Year-Round

Agritecture Blog

Reidy, the founder and CEO of a real estate design company that helped build and raise funds for the Green Street greenhouse. At Baltimore’s Green Street Academy, the greenhouse grew out of their robust agricultural training program, which includes a small hoop house for growing vegetables, an orchard, and a chicken coop.

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California Will Help BIPOC Collective Cultivate Land Access for Underserved Farmers

Civil Eats

After six years of enriching the soil and cultivating neighborly relationships, however, We Grow Farms is up against an insurmountable challenge facing many farms and pastures across the state: the real estate market. While Hawkins is sympathetic to the need, he says the farm’s uprooting will come at a great cost.

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JD Vance Funded AcreTrader. Here’s Why That Matters.

Civil Eats

Its current offerings include 83 acres of almond trees in the San Joaquin Valley, advertised as “an opportunity to invest in a water-secure almond orchard in the world’s most productive almond-producing region.” It’s just the expansion of the Real Estate Investment Trust [REIT] business model into farmland,” said Taber.

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