You will require certified
organic land with sufficient acreage for crop isolation, irrigation, and knowledge of seed processing techniques.
Not exact matches
Iroquois Valley Farmland REIT is a restorative farmland finance company providing
land access to
organic family farmers,
with a focus on the next generation.
A year into the project, the weedy field has a compost heap full of
organic waste from the kitchen; a growing orchard
with biblical fruit trees including a fig and an apple; a Havdalah circle where visitors and residents of the farm gather weekly for a religious ceremony marking the end of Shabbat; and a shmitta area — a part of the
land that is allowed to lie fallow for one year out of every seven, as commanded in the Torah.
The dalits were impure because they had to deal
with land, and
with organic nature and its wastes.
So when I was at the grocery store yesterday and they were out of
organic parsley, my eyes
landed on a gorgeous bunch of
organic rainbow carrots
with their pristine, frilly greens still attached.
The next farm bill should facilitate transitioning to
organic with improved access to
land and capital, investment in distribution systems and infrastructure, and targeted technical assistance.
With only 0.5 percent of crop and pasture
land in
organic, according to USDA that leaves 99.5 percent of farm acres in the U.S. at risk of -LSB-...]
He has conducted on - farm research in cooperation
with USDA and
Land Grant Universities, and work on a national
organic research agenda and national legislation to fund on - farm
organic systems research.
This comprehensive collection of the latest available data (2016) on
organic agriculture worldwide contains data on area, operators, and retail sales: 57.8 million hectares of
organic agricultural
land and
organic products
with a total value of almost 90 billion US dollars were sold globally.
The countries
with the largest
organic share of agricultural
land of their total farmland are the Liechtenstein (37.7 percent), French Polynesia (31.3 percent), and Samoa (22.4 percent).
Tempore's Export Manager Elena Hernandez Hibbert noted, «We're at Vinexpo to help people understand that
organic production isn't just about sales numbers, but also about the process of working
with what the
land wants to yield.
Even if 60 % of agriculture would convert to
organic farming, concentrated feed were reduced by 50 % and food waste by 50 %, it would result in a food system
with significantly decreased environmental impacts, including lower overall greenhouse gas emissions, and only a marginal increase in agricultural
land area.
Sweet Earth Foods, Moss
Landing, Calif., added Korean recipes to its vegetarian and vegan options, including its Get Cultured Breakfast Burrito, a Korean - inspired
organic, probiotic, vegan recipe
with seasoned tofu, cabbage, fermented red pepper, edamame and ginger.
To gain the Certified Transitional logo for its new cereal, Kashi worked
with Hesco / Dakota
Organic Products, a specialty grain company, to identify and work
with two farmers interested in transitioning new
land from conventional to
organic farming practices.
Additionally, transitioning farm
land to
organic is costly
with limited return on investment since it takes three years to become eligible for
organic certification.
«We continue to seek ways to partner
with land owners to make
organic ingredients more accessible for existing and innovative new foods that our consumers have grown to expect.»
As fifth generation farmers,
with young children running around, they appreciate that once they're fully certified
organic farmers they'll receive fairer milk prices, which will help keep their kids on the
land.
More than 10 % of farmland
organic in 11 countries The countries
with the largest share of
organic agricultural
land of their total farmland are the Falkland Islands (36.3 %), followed by Liechtenstein (31 %) and Austria (19.5 %).
The Cootamundra property, comprising 1240 hectares of farming country and 400 hectares of conserved bushland, was already in conversion to
organic with Australian Certified
Organic when they acquired the
land.
For Straus Family Creamery,
organic agriculture, as practiced on small to mid-size family farms, starts
with sustainable
land stewardship.
«The high - quality flavor of our milk starts at the
organic family farms,
with sustainable
land stewardship and good animal welfare practices.
The Business: Featured on Sydney Weekender, and in numerous publications such as: Garlic by Penny Woodward; Transition Farms by Bev Buckley; The
Land newspaper; Small Farms and Border Living magazines,» Carrigbyrne» has been a thriving
organic garlic business for the past 26 years,
with a large customer base of both retail businesses and individuals from Melbourne to Darwin.
To this end, we support
organic agriculture and food production, and eschew practices that destroy the topsoil and pollute the air,
land and water
with toxic by - products.
With around 150,000 hectares of ecologically managed
land, Berlin - Brandenburg is one of Germany's most important regions for
organic farming.
By 2001 the total figure of certified
organic farms had reached 290 and 6 469 ha of
land, together
with 8 certified
organic processing companies and 11 other certified
organic companies.
This aspect indicates that the improvement of landscape infrastructure in combination
with organic agriculture may be an important factor for the conservation and enhancement of species - rich communities on agricultural
land.
However, we work closely
with Marin Agricultural
Land Trust, which arranges farm events and hosts tours on several
organic farms in northern Marin County.
There are, however, some very large scale
organic farms e.g. Pavich Family Farms in California
with over 1 600 ha of
organic land and 200 ha in conversion to
organic.
In contrast to these huge
organic animal production properties, smallholdings characterize
organic arable
lands (
with few exceptions).
«Strawberry Farmer» is totally on my (very long) «What I Want to Be When I Grow Up (And Own
Land)» list, but in the meantime, I'm grateful for the local farmers who grow them, and share
with us (though the balance of supply and demand for
organic, local, pick your own around here makes me a little nervous... and eager to get planting my own,
with plenty to share).
Co-author Hayley Hung, a scientist
with Environment Canada's Air Quality Division who studies toxic
organic pollutants in the Arctic, said that in recent years, researchers had posited that warmer conditions would liberate POPs stored in
land, ice and ocean reservoirs back into the atmosphere.
A new study led by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science reveals that
land use in the watersheds from which this «dissolved
organic matter» originates has important implications for Bay water quality,
with the
organic carbon in runoff from urbanized or heavily farmed landscapes more likely to persist as it is carried downstream, thus contributing energy to fuel low - oxygen «dead zones» in coastal waters.
Despite these hurdles, several years ago the team discovered chlorobenzene, a ring - shaped molecule containing six carbons, along
with other chlorinated
organics, using a sample from a mudstone Curiosity drilled at Yellowknife Bay near its
landing site in Gale crater.
Regarding the Paleocene - Eocene event itself, the field seems to be coming around to the idea that it had something to do
with a greatly accelerated oxidation of
organic carbon stored on
land, perhaps associated
with the drying up of interior shallow seaways.
The lower
land - use efficiency of
organic systems means that «large - scale conversion to
organic would likely require bringing more natural habitats into agricultural production,»
with a potentially severe impact on global biodiversity due to the loss of rainforests and other currently wild areas.
Remediating,
with added value, metal and
organic wastes from contaminated
land
To become certified
organic, pasture and the
land on which it is grown can not be treated
with synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides or GMOs for a minimum of three years.
Please choose an
organic yerba mate brand that is grown in harmony
with this magical
land.
When I explore this landscape I find myself connecting
with the textures and patterns that nature provides, finding interest in detritus that washes ashore, both
organic and in -
organic, for even the smallest of objects contain the beauty of randomness and irregularity.We live in one of the most dynamic environments on the planet, where ocean meets
land; ever changing, our lives are deeply connected to this place where tides ebb and flow revealing aggregate shapes, leaving imprints, and proving that time is both fast and slow.
The construction method extremely
organic: no concrete, no
land modification, very little footprint.All the accommodations have low consumption lights (LEDs) and are equipped
with two outlets to reload cell phones and camera batteries.
Because, Toledo is a vast
land, some of it deep and dark, full of caves, wild rivers, Mayan healers, the sounds of the jungle and remote small Mayan villages, some of it full of virtue and promise
with its
organic cacao plantations and snug little jungle lodges, and some of it full of brighteness, sun and sea
with its excellent snorkeling, diving and fly fishing at the Snake Cayes and the Sapodilla Caye Range.
With still and moving images of
land and cityscapes, and in taxidermy and fabricated figures, the exhibition not only examines today's concerns about the Anthropocene and damage to the environment, but how nature meets technoculture and how the new natural is both
organic and manufactured.
With the grant award Traviesa intends to expand further into the realm of community oriented projects with Native & Contemporary, an organic land - based installation comprised of flora native to the area, landscaped to spell out «NATIVE & CONTEMPORARY.&ra
With the grant award Traviesa intends to expand further into the realm of community oriented projects
with Native & Contemporary, an organic land - based installation comprised of flora native to the area, landscaped to spell out «NATIVE & CONTEMPORARY.&ra
with Native & Contemporary, an
organic land - based installation comprised of flora native to the area, landscaped to spell out «NATIVE & CONTEMPORARY.»
The «Water» pictures include large - format color images that often read like artful abstractions at first glance: the dried - up Colorado River Delta in Baja, Mexico,
with its lunar - like silvery gray surfaces; a great swirl of water at China's Xiaolangdi Dam on the Yellow River that brings the British painter J.M.W. Turner to mind; and an aerial picture of dry - farming
land in Aragon, Spain, whose jutting
organic forms suggest the shapes of Picasso or Jean Dubuffet.
And as complex as «Between Island and Mainland» (2012) and «Ferryman» (2012) appear,
with their swirling /
organic forms
with interlocking edges, painted
with varying differences in thinness, thickness, and modeling, they evoke so distinctly the serenity and simplicity of the Buddha Amitãbha's ascendance, the grace of which was so essential to Pure
Land Buddhist painting for over a millennium.
We identified as most promising measures: the promotion of
organic inputs on arable
land instead of grassland, the introduction of perennials (grasses, trees) on arable set - aside
land for conservation or biofuel purposes, to promote
organic farming, to raise the water table in farmed peatland, and —
with restrictions — zero tillage or conservation tillage.
Regarding the Paleocene - Eocene event itself, the field seems to be coming around to the idea that it had something to do
with a greatly accelerated oxidation of
organic carbon stored on
land, perhaps associated
with the drying up of interior shallow seaways.
Re «I believe the best thing to do now
with «threatened tropical rain forests» is to harvest all their timber, then clear the
land, then grow
organic sugarcane for ethanol production.»
I believe the best thing to do now
with «threatened tropical rain forests» is to harvest all their timber, then clear the
land, then grow
organic sugarcane for ethanol production.
CATA will develop a series of workshops around nutrition, engage
with organic farmers in the Bridgeton area, set up an an
organic farmers» market that is easily accessible, and finally cultivate a plot of
land to be used by our membership to grow their own food that they can bring home to their families as well as sell their produce.