30 Day Challenge: Day 8 - Teaming with Microbes

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Buncombe farmers win "slow food" sustainable-agriculture award

23.02.12

) - In the early 1990s, John Vollmer, a third-generation tobacco and small grain farmer, knew that the outlook for tobacco farming was bleak. Moreover, Vollmer had seen the number of farms dwindle in his area from about 250 in the 1970s to just 30. He realized that organic production might provide a means to keep the farm viable.  "My main goal was to keep the farm in the family for the next generation," Vollmer said.  So, John completely diversified into pumpkins, strawberries and organics.  Recently, John and Betty added organic blueberries and they are looking to expand into more organic varieties.  In addition to organic acreage, they have many improvements to soil quality, PH and water holding capacity by using compost and cover crops in their non-organic fields. Now that the family has grown, John’s goal has been realized; the 4th and 5th generations are helping sustain the farm!

Source: Mountain Xpress

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Buncombe farmers win "slow food" sustainable-agriculture award
Mountain Xpress - Feb 23, 2012
Together, these two programs now connect all elements of the food chain – from farmers and fisherman to processors and distributors. Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (CFSA) is a 32-year-old non-profit network of over 2300 members that helps people ...

New biomass alliance focuses on wood, miscanthus pellets
Biomass Power and Thermal - Feb 23, 2012
New biomass alliance focuses on wood, miscanthus pellets It will not have an effect on the Georgia food crop industries, which rely on premium, nutrient-rich soils, it added. The overriding goal of the Green Energy Farms Alliance in its fuel design is to maximize the yield efficiencies of the land resources ...

Newsline: Global Food Crisis Fund showcases projects for holiday giving
Worldwide Faith News (press release) - Feb 23, 2012
By doing so you and the recipient will be teamed with smallholder farmers in developing countriesequip those who are underfed to feed themselvespromote sound nutritionand invest in efforts to conserve water, regenerate the soil, ...

A foodie weekend in Hastings
News Shopper - Feb 23, 2012
This old-fashioned charm is appealingly teamed with fashionable shops and boutiques, and a thoroughly current enthusiasm for fine food and drink. The weekend I'm in town, it's the sixth annual Hastings Seafood and Wine Festival. ...

Visit and Conversation With Executives at Solazyme
Consumer Energy Report - Feb 23, 2012
After all, I consider sugarcane ethanol to be a potentially sustainable source of fuel (in tropical locations with ample rainfall) because sugarcane isn't that hard on the soil and the residue provides heat for the ethanol process. ...



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