Key Features and Functionality: -> Interactive Map Interface: The Farm Fresh App's main highlight is its user-friendly interactive map. With a simple tap, the map reveals a plethora of markers representing farmers' markets, farm stands, and organic farms near your location. Easily navigate thro...
Organic food sales in the U.S. doubled over the last decade, but organic farming hasn’t kept pace. That may change as farmers partner with brands.
The differences between the labor input needed for organic farming versus conventional farming have been discussed. Organic farming presents a tradeoff of higher labor requirements and a more desirable kind of work. From an economic perspective, the organic system requires 35% more labor, but because...
See how the city's residents sought out chinampas, human-built islands that once fed several hundred thousand people, for sustenance and solace during COVID-19.
While we love our fellow organic farmers, not everyone has the budget to buy everything organic. Also, not every food item necessarily needs to be organic, including some nuts. Like pecans, pistachios are grown on the tree “double shelled”: first with the husk, then with the shell. Pe...
Coastal aquaculture systems are complex environments with multiple microbial interactions that affect fish health and productivity. High-throughput amplicon sequencing is a valuable tool for identifying such bacterial communities and investigating the re
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With organic farming “we see that this is a system where we have an opportunity to be rewarded as farmers. Farms are primary industries that can create food out of rain and sunlight — use a little bit of seed and have a little bit of space and dirt and harness the rain and sunlight...
land and what they did right or wrong. Christensen said they use natural biological products like seaweed, kelp, or compost teas to feed the microbes in the soil but don’t want to use biotechnologies like gene-edited microbes. They are inching toward organic, he said, but aren’t...
That almost sounds like a cause PETA would be proud of, right? An almost-hippie nature-loving organic chemical-free farm where animals aren’t killed but instead raised to be as healthy, happy, and free as possible? No… instead, shame on me for trying to “profit” off of it!