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Tech and nature nerd field trip at Elphinstone Farm | Coast Cultural Alliance (CCA)
Come hang out and learn for a day with techy and farmy nerds at the beautiful Elphinstone farm in Gibson's. A recently adopted asset, this nascent farm is set
FarmBot | Open-Source CNC Farming
Farming and gardening robots for home, educational, and commercial use. Premium Hardware · Worldwide Shipping · Drag and Drop Farm Designer · Step-by-Step Assembly Instructions · Own Your Food
Elphinstone Farm (and regenerative solarpunk lab)
An aspiring small-scale agritech solarpunk venture on the Sunshine Coast, BC — building syntropic agroforestry labs, a native plant nursery, and a collaborative workspace.
We started a farming club. Why you should start one too
We are long overdue for a return to growing our own food, and the farming club offers a promising way to reconnect with that tradition.
Crop is Stardew Valley except you arrive at your farm naked and in the boot of a car
If Stardew Valley is a cosy farming game the Crop is a what you get if you make it a horror farming game.
INVESTING IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD
THE INVESTING IN REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD PODCASTThrough 400+ interviews with farmers, investors, scientists, and entrepreneurs, the podcast puts the spotlight on the pioneers in the regenerative food and agriculture space to learn more on how to put our money to work to regenerate soil, people, local communities and ecosystems while making an appropriate and fair return.
Home - Urban Harvest
URBAN HARVEST FARMERS MARKET EVERY SATURDAY 8AM-12PMInterested in Community Gardens, learn more about our growing community.Want to learn more about Permaculture Program? We Teach Classes! Interested in Community Gardens, learn more about our growing communityStart the New Year Fresh at the Farmers Market!Want to learn more about Permaculture Program? We Teach Classes! JOIN US SATURDAY […]
Crop–livestock integration beyond the farm level: a review
AbstractParadoxically, the number of crop–livestock farms is declining across Europe, despite the fact that crop-livestock farms are theoretically optimal to improve the sustainability of agriculture. To solve this issue, crop–livestock integration may be organized beyond the farm level. For instance, local groups of farmers can negotiate land-use allocation patterns and exchange materials such as manure, grain, and straw. Development of such a collective agricultural system raises questions, rarely documented in the literature, about how to integrate crops and livestock among farms, and the consequences, impacts, and conditions of integrating them. Here, we review the different forms of crop–livestock integration beyond the farm level, their potential benefits, and the features of decision support systems (DSS) needed for the integration process. We identify three forms of crop–livestock integration beyond the farm level: local coexistence, complementarity, and synergy, each with increasingly stronger temporal, spatial, and organizational coordination among farms. We claim that the forms of integration implemented define the nature, area, and spatial configuration of crops, grasslands, and animals in farms and landscapes. In turn, these configurations influence the provision of ecosystem services. For instance, we show that the synergy form of integration promotes soil fertility, erosion control, and field-level biological regulation services through organizational coordination among farmers and spatiotemporal integration between crops, grasslands, and animals. We found that social benefits of the synergy form of integration include collective empowerment of farmers. We claim that design of the complementarity and synergy forms of crop–livestock integration can best be supported by collective participatory workshops involving farmers, agricultural consultants, and researchers. In these workshops, spatialized simulation modeling of crop–livestock integration among farms is the basis for achieving the upscaling process involved in integrating beyond the farm level. Facilitators of these workshops have to pay attention to the consequences on governance and equity issues within farmers groups.
LiteFarm | Sustainable Farm Management Software
LiteFarm is a free and open source farm management software made for current and aspiring sustainable farmers.
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Square Foot Gardening: Easiest Way to Grow MORE Food in LESS Space
GainForest: Open tools for regenerative intelligence
Explore nature projects around the world, back community-led restoration, and mint Certs; verifiable proof-of-impact records signed on ATProto.
