The Self-Fed Farm and Garden
A Return to the Roots of the Organic Method
https://www.eliotbarbara.com/read-our-books/the-self-fed-farm-and-garden/
Keep Compost Local: A Roadmap for Public-Private Partnerships (December 9, 2025)
https://ilsr.org/article/composting-for-community/keep-compost-local-2025/
Kern County, California, celebrates compost facility opening
The new facility is expected to divert 100,000 tons of organic waste from landfills annually.
https://www.wastetodaymagazine.com/news/kern-county-california-celebrates-compost-facility-opening/
Researchers make stunning discovery after studying farmland treated with organic fertilizers for years: ‘This is the first direct evidence’
It could prompt changes in the agricultural industry.
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/soil-carbon-storage-agricultural-study-fertilizer-benefits/
California Legalizes On Ranch Composting for Livestock Mortalities and Butcher Waste
The Campus Community and Composting
https://www.tntechoracle.com/2025/10/22/the-campus-community-and-composting/
Green ways to discard leftover pumpkins, jack-o-lanterns
Valley Bounty: Serving sustainability: Deerfield Academy relies on local farms to feed students
The power of worms: Meet farmers transforming organic waste into wealth
A new interactive map, released today by the national environmental group Food & Water Watch, paints a first-ever comprehensive picture of all factory farm biogas projects making money off of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).
Amid SNAP Turmoil, These Options Can Help Fill the Food Gap
https://civileats.com/2025/11/05/amid-snap-turmoil-these-options-can-help-fill-the-food-gap/
Why Climate Action Must Start on Our Plates
Rebalancing industrial animal farming cuts emissions, limits disease risk, protects biodiversity, and strengthens food security, reminding us that human, animal, and planetary well-being are inseparable.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/climate-action-food-systems
Topsoil leads the way
Lana and Dan Nicholson’s Topsoil Organics won the Excellence in Large Business gong at the NSW (Australia) Business Awards. NSW Business award for visionary Forbes business.
https://www.forbesadvocate.com.au/news/business/topsoil-leads-the-way-maiye3jz
Community Farmers Markets Address Food Waste and Food Security With a Drawdown Georgia Grant
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/community-farmers-markets-address-food-141000102.html
Sowing Tomorrow: Land Access and the New Generation of Farmers
https://foodtank.com/news/2025/10/sowing-tomorrow-land-access-and-the-new-generation-of-farmers/
What the World’s Farmers Can Teach Us About Climate Resilience (audio)
As climate change transforms how we grow and eat, we look abroad for lessons in adaptability — and what they reveal about protecting our global food system.
Have the environmental benefits of insect farming been overstated? A critical review
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.70076
Agriculture Organic Farming: 7 Sustainable Ways 2026
https://farmonaut.com/blogs/agriculture-organic-farming-7-sustainable-ways-2026
Farm Aid 40 By the Numbers
https://www.farmaid.org/blog/farm-aid-40-by-the-numbers/
Mill and Compost Crew launch food scrap recycling service
The service is available to customers across Maryland, northern Virginia and the DMV.
https://www.wastetodaymagazine.com/news/mill-and-compost-crew-launch-food-scrap-recycling-service/
Student-led compost project aims to build community and fight landfill waste
Biodegradable Techniques Boost Farm Waste Composting Efficiency
https://bioengineer.org/biodegradable-techniques-boost-farm-waste-composting-efficiency/
Circular Economy in Agriculture
https://www.daily-sun.com/printversion/details/836815
Collaborations to encourage composting in the county
https://newfalconherald.com/collaborations-to-encourage-composting-in-the-county/
Cow Dung Compost: Top 5 Sustainable Benefits for 2026
https://farmonaut.com/blogs/cow-dung-compost-top-5-sustainable-benefits-for-2026
Animal Farming Is ‘World’s Biggest Cause Of Food Waste,’ Says Report
If the industry stopped using grain to feed farm animals, the food system could accommodate an extra 2.5 billion people
https://plantbasednews.org/news/environment/animal-farming-biggest-cause-food-waste/
University recognised for plan to cut food waste
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/university-recognised-plan-cut-food-171314947.html
US farmers issue warning as critical crop becomes harder to grow: ‘It’s kind of scary
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-farmers-issue-warning-critical-001500910.html
How depackaging is radically changing the organics recycling market in Vermont
Depackagers rerouted significant amounts of organic waste from composters when they arrived in the state several years ago. Regulators now wonder if they can claw back a clean stream.
https://www.wastedive.com/news/depackaging-impact-vermont-compost-organic-waste-recycling/804433/
Dining’s efforts to reduce waste go beyond the clean plate club
With SNAP in crisis, America’s epic food waste problem has become a lifeline
The U.S. throws away enough food to help tackle its hunger problem. The government shutdown is proving it.
https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/snap-in-crisis-food-waste-problem-has-become-a-lifeline/
Reduce, reuse, recycle this Oklahoma holiday season
https://www.oklahomafarmreport.com/okfr/2025/11/07/reduce-reuse-recycle-this-holiday-season/
Earthworms – the ‘biological machine’ of green agriculture
KHANH HOA, Vietnam; From agricultural waste, earthworms become a ‘biological machine’ that helps form a circular agricultural model, creating clean agricultural products, increasing value, and protecting the environment.
https://www.vietnam.vn/en/trun-que-co-may-sinh-hoc-cua-nong-nghiep-xanh
Soup kitchen crusades against food waste
A Sample Grant Proposal on “Innovative Solutions to Reduce Food Waste Globally”
Cornell’s Tech Farm II boosts food and ag innovation in the Finger Lakes
https://rbj.net/2025/11/10/cornell-tech-farm-ii-expands-food-ag-innovation-geneva/