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Dry farming in a drought era
Olive and grape growers have used this technique for thousands of years. Now, farmers are expanding this approach for “tomatoes, pumpkins, watermelons, cantaloupes, winter squash, olives, garbanzos,...
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UC Berkeley Occupy Farm is plowed under by police but already replants
By Judith Scherr and Doug Oakley ALBANY — About 50 Occupy the Farm activists returned to a piece of land Monday evening to replant vegetables plowed under earlier in the day after UC Berkeley police...
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Truth & Transparency: Farm Audits for Producer-Only Integrity | Farmers...
An excellent webinar today from Farmers Market Coalition on one of California’s farm audit programs. Impressive how much our low-capacity markets are doing to safeguard their mission and values and to...
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Has farm-to-table helped the actual farmer yet? – LA Times
The solution for rural economies and small-scale agriculture is not to DIY everything but to build a multifaceted, participatory food system of fully employed food producers, not hobbyists. Great piece...
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Marijuana Is A Gateway Drug–To Urban Hippie Farming Utopia
Region Lewis said they soon began growing other crops when they were in season, and decided that farming was something they wanted to do with the rest of their lives.
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