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New campaign looks to build on booming organic market

Business Green

Soil Association reveals that lockdown sparked a sales surge for organic certified products. New data shows that sales of organic food in supermarkets have seen the biggest jump since December 2016, with year-on-year growth hitting more than six per cent.

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Organic Farming in U.S. Jumps 56 Percent Over 5-Year Period

Green Living Guy

David Knop checks his organic newly-planted blackberry rows for moisture in Steeleville, Ill. Isaac Smith/The Southern, via AP) First off, the number of certified organic farms in the United States increased 11 percent in 2016 to 14,217 from the previous year. The post Organic Farming in U.S.

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America is hungrier than ever for sustainable food systems. Can we build them?  

GreenBiz

If a farmer wants to transition a farm from conventional practices to organic or regenerative ones, costs are associated with that transition. These factors are different for organic and regenerative farmers, so the numbers often don’t work, resulting in loans being denied or unaffordable. These farms accounted for 5.5 Food Systems.

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Circular solution for screenings?

Envirotec Magazine

Moreover, spent biochar can be used to enhance the quality of biosolids, an organic fertiliser that many treatment plants produce, and which is applied to soils where it sequesters carbon for centuries. Untreated screenings are also a source of methane emissions, a greenhouse gas that is 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

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Global warming is threatening the iconic Georgia peach

AGreenLiving

Since then, the fruit has thrived in the state, thanks to its favorable climate and soil profile. Related: SCAD students fight food insecurity in Georgia with organic farming and beekeeping Since the 1960s, Georgia and the South overall have experienced a 5 degree Fahrenheit rise in average temperatures.

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An enduring threat to water?

Envirotec Magazine

As many PFAS are surfactants they can also coat soils and concrete surfaces at source areas, exhibiting multi-layered waterproofing effects as PFAS storage zones, where they slowly release because of rainfall. are regulated in drinking water, surface waters, soils and groundwater.

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Building Food System Resilience Through Urban Agriculture

Energy Innovation

Well managed agricultural land has also been shown to improve soil, water, and air quality in surrounding areas, as healthy soil increases absorption area for runoff water and plants absorb CO 2. These efforts are either entirely new or built upon existing campaigns, like the zero waste and organic food movements.