Budding Bookworms
December 15, 2023
RAFI staff parents review their favorite books for little ones touching on ecology, food, and environmental science.
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Living Roots
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Aggregate, Collaborate, Profit
December 15, 2023
Farming collaboratives can help beginning farmers gain a foothold in the market and help develop reliable markets for members' products. Berry Hines Sr., founder of the Eastern North Carolina Farmer Collaborative, talks lessons learned from small farm aggregation.
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Farming on Sunshine
December 15, 2023
Agrivoltaics is the dual production of solar energy and agricultural goods on the same farmland. Harnessing the sun for energy alongside crops or livestock can be a path to financial opportunities and clean energy independence.
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Drones, Robots, and the Next Generation in Ag
December 15, 2023
Farmer Breyon Pierce introduces young minds to the applied science of farming, including cutting-edge technologies like aquaponics, robots, and agricultural drones.
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From Soil to Supper
September 15, 2023
Feast Down East is a nonprofit organization based in Wilmington, NC, offering farmer support, hunger relief programs, and a food hub distribution program. The organization partners with local farmers to purchase food which is distributed to the community via its mobile farmers market, food hub, and Emergency Food Relief Program. Learn more about the food hub in this Q&A with FTE Operations Manager, JT Crawford.
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Grocery Goliaths
September 15, 2023
Local and regional farmers once relied on independent grocery stores to market their products. But as massive corporate grocery chains tighten their stranglehold on the market, how can these local stores — and the farmers they source from — stay afloat?
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Keep It Covered
September 15, 2023
Cover crops build soil health by reducing compaction, improving water infiltration, preventing erosion, fixing nitrogen, adding organic matter, suppressing weeds, and feeding beneficial microbes. Learn more about cover crop benefits and planning.
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Nurturing a Neighborhood
September 15, 2023
M. Dominique Villanueva runs Fountain Heights Farm in Birmingham, Alabama with her husband Christopher Gooden. The farm has blossomed from their front yard garden to five city lots, producing thousands of pounds of food annually.
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Harvesting Hope
September 15, 2023
What would it look like for faith communities to be in sustainable, mutually beneficial, and practical relationships with farmers? RAFI's Farm and Faith Partnerships Project pairs churches with local farmers of color to create community supported agriculture programs aimed at strengthening local food systems.
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