Over the last two decades, my mother has devoted herself to creating a small homestead farm in upstate New York. I’ve had a front-row seat to the tribulations and glories of raising a large flock of ...
At the Imperial Stock Ranch in central Oregon, dozens of sheep were grazing on a recent fall day. Rancher Jeanne Carver watched a mama sheep scramble up a hill with two lambs. “Look at that family ...
The Yolo Carbon Farm Partnership is hosting a two-part Carbon Farming workshop series to showcase on-farm strategies to improve soil health and increase the amount of carbon stored in plants and soil.
Producing and distributing food is responsible for roughly a third of global greenhouse gas emissions. But food systems are highly vulnerable to the droughts, floods, fires and heat waves made more ...
The move to climate-smart farming practices has felt like a disorganized and chaotic movement of different opinions and attitudes toward an elusive and dynamic end point. That is — herding cats. The ...
L’ANSE, MI – The Nature Conservancy this week issued the first 211,000 carbon credits from its Michigamme Highlands project. Scientists with the nonprofit say they take extra measures to ensure the ...
This is how carbon farming works. Farmers plant trees on abandoned farmland. The trees take in carbon from the atmosphere as they grow, acting as a natural sink to offset some emissions. For farmers, ...
BASF and Nutrien partner to help farmers access low-carbon biofuel markets through digital tools and sustainable practices ...
Find out more about our Reverse Course series here. Mary Yap adjusts her hard hat and looks over the cavernous expanse of the Sunrock quarry in Butner, North Carolina. It’s a blast day and Yap is a ...
In Europe and other parts of the world hit by climate change in the agriculture sector, carbon farming, which refers to agricultural practices focused on sequestering carbon dioxide from the ...
Brooke Singer may laugh when she calls herself “a self-taught soil nerd,” but she is quite serious. When Singer looks at soil, she sees something beyond just the microbes, minerals and organic matter ...