Tweets about farmers, the food they grow, and the people who eat it.
Santa Cruz, CA
Joined January 2009
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Join our Rainwater Collection series! 🌧️ Discover how to set up a rainwater harvesting system for sustainable living on our homestead. From gutters to PVC pipes, tanks, and pumphouses, we cover it all. Learn why rainwater is vital in dry Arkansas summers and how to reduce reliance on well water. Perfect for seasoned homesteaders and beginners! 🌱💧 #RainwaterHarvesting #HomesteadLife #SustainableLiving
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“Over a billion animals are confined in factory farms in the UK & the number of intensive factory farms is on the rise. Factory farming is the single biggest cause of animal cruelty on the planet”
@ChrisGPackham at #RestoreNatureNow
ALT "Factory farming is the single biggest cause of animal cruelty on the planet" - Chris Packham
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Last month, we alerted you to Bayer-Monsanto’s new request for EPA approval of yet another dicamba formulation following dicamba’s ban by federal courts not once, but twice...🧵
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The Risk of Freedom: Is It Safe to Allow Your #Chickens to Free Range? buymyeggs.com/blog/the-risk-… #homestead #farmlife #chickens #eggs
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Shady Grove Farmers Market opens Wed 5/17! Celebrate with us 11-2p!
Farms: strawberries, asparagus, tomatoes, sausage, lamb!
Food: pizza, slushies, fish, acai bowls, dumplings, chicken burgers, tarts, quiche!
9605 Medical Center Drive, Rockville 20850.
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Spring has sprung! 🌼 🌺 🌱
Today’s the first day of Spring, and we’re daydreaming of warm sunny days on the pasture.
Watch the heartwarming moments our rescue animals stepped onto their beautiful green pastures in 2023 after a long, cold winter!
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Legal Notice: If you purchased certain meat, poultry, pork and seafood products in a Walmart store, you may be eligible to receive a payment from a class action settlement.
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Pigs have strong maternal instincts, but in factory farms many are confined in cages to give birth.
Provide a voice for sows this #MothersDay - share this post to tell @DefraGovUK you haven't forgotten their promise to consult on cages.
#EndTheCageAge
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Cows like Diane lead rich, socially complex lives. They form strongly bonded social groups, rely on their friends and family for comfort, and experience a range of emotions.
They’re someone—not something.💚 🐮
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Slaughtering Innocence: Illegal Child Labor | THE FARM BUZZ buff.ly/3MIJaD8
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The European Commission’s proposal on new GMOs “tramples on the precautionary principle” by scandalously opening the door to a new generation of #GMOs without any independent analysis of their toxicity, say MEP @BenoitBiteau and former MEP José Bové lemonde.fr/idees/article/202…
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Disease suppressive soil has a natural ability to suppress or reduce the incidence and severity of plant diseases, even when a pathogen is present.
The problem is, the average farm doesn't manage soil or crops in a way that fosters disease suppression.
The pictured farm produces organic bell peppers and, for many years, followed the standard practice of essentially sterilizing the soil between each planting cycle. Still, they would lose 10-20% of their plants to damping-off (Pythium, Rhizoctonia, and Fusarium).
Instead of continuing to sterilize the soil, which creates ideal conditions for opportunistic soil-borne pathogens, we aggressively inoculated the soil with beneficial microbes, supplied biostimulants, balanced soil minerals, and fine-tuned plant nutrition.
As a result, this greenhouse of 32,000 bell pepper plants lost approximately 10 plants to disease instead of the customary 3,200 – 6,400.
With an integrated approach that aims to build a robust soil microbial community and optimize plant nutrition, crops can be free of disease, despite the presence of pathogens.
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Last chance for Uplands Cheese Rush Creek Reserve, made in Dodgeville, WI! This coveted "savory custard"-like cheese is only produced in the fall, when their cows begin to change from summer pasture to the winter’s dry hay. Each 12oz cheese is $31.99.
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Check out this month’s newsletter discussing the definition of regenerative agriculture as well as a range of other topics:
us.engagingnetworks.app/page…
@pearljackfarm is a living testament to all the hard work small regenerative agri farmers put in to ensure quality over quantity. Just consider how much food is wasted in large agro. First comes food wasting and then medical wasting. We are smarter than that folks! Support local
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IATP is in Oaxaca this week at the International Conference on Food Self-Sufficiency & Agroecology in a Multipolar World. From yesterday’s Mixteca field visits: nopales in an agroforestry program & maize on display at a local seed bank initiative. (Photos by Carlos Cabrera.)
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THANK YOU to every person who saw our #indiefilm in theaters, told a friend about it, tagged someone in a post, or shared the trailer to help spread the word! This movie isn’t just a love letter to our children, it’s a movement to restore our soil, our health, and our planet.
We share this achievement of being one of the Top 10 Best Performing Documentaries of 2023 with each and everyone of you!
We believe that our ability to transform ground around the world from dirt to healthy living soil is dependent on how many people watch this #film and share it’s message with others.
We’ve played in over 75+ cities across the world, and are currently adding showtimes for 2024! See below for all current showtimes, and be sure to sign up for our newsletter (lnkd.in/eBJmchFc) to hear all our exciting plans for the new year first!
#KansasCity, KS | Dec 1 | Glenwood Arts Theater
#Encino, CA | Dec 1 | Laemmle Town Center 5
#Atlanta, GA | Dec 4 | Tara Theater (super event with @RosarioDawson, @kisstheground, @captainplanetfdn, Will Harris of @whiteoakpastures), and others!)
#Kenosha, WI | Dec 9 | U of W Parkside
Fairfax, VA | Dec 11 | Cinema Arts
#AnnArbor, MI | Jan 13 | Michigan Theatre
#Toronto, Canada | Jan 17, 21 | Ted Rogers Cinema
#Provincetown, RI | Jan 17, 22 | Waters Edge
#Rosendale, NY | Jan 25 | Rosendale Theatre Collective
Get tickets or request your local theatre: commongroundfilm.org.
Thank you again for being a part of the #CommonGroundMovie movement. Together, we can save the world one acre at a time.
#LetsRegenerate #100millionacres #regenerativeagriculture #soil #soilhealth #climate #climateaction #biodiversity #foodsecurity #farming #socialimpact – at Hollywood, Los Angeles
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Let’s make the PERFECT (Raw milk) LONDON FOG: simply brew your hot tea, + vanilla, + warm raw milk, and frothed raw milk to the top {add raw honey if you like it sweet} #londonfog #tea #rawmilk #latte #cappuccino #tearecipe #diystarbucks #recipe