I wrote about farms like this one when I did a story about #UnityMaine, the home of the #CommonGroundFair -- a celebration of #OrganicFarming in #Maine. It makes me so sad to see them having to go out of business because #MaineDEP and #EPAFail led to #sludge being marketed as "fertilizer".

‘I don’t know how we’ll survive’: the #farmers facing ruin in #Maine’s ‘forever chemicals’ crisis

Maine faces a crisis from #PFAS-contaminated produce, which is causing farms to close and farmers to face the loss of their livelihoods

by Tom Perkins, 22 Mar 2022 06.05 EDT

"Songbird Farm’s 17 acres (7 hectares) hold sandy loam fields, three greenhouses and cutover woods that comprise an idyllic setting near Maine’s central coast. The small organic operation carved out a niche growing heirloom grains, tomatoes, sweet garlic, cantaloupe and other products that were sold to organic food stores or as part of a community-supported agriculture program, where people pay to receive boxes of locally grown produce.

Farmers Johanna Davis and Adam Nordell bought Songbird in 2014. By 2021 the young family with their three-year-old son were hitting their stride, Nordell said.

"But disaster struck in December. The couple learned the farm’s previous owner had decades earlier used PFAS-tainted sewage sludge, or '#biosolids', as fertilizer on Songbird’s fields. Testing revealed their soil, drinking #water, irrigation water, #crops, chickens and #blood were #contaminated with high levels of the #ToxicChemicals.

"The couple quickly recalled products, alerted customers, suspended their operation and have been left deeply fearful for their financial and physical wellbeing.

"'This has flipped everything about our lives on its head,' Nordell said. 'We haven’t done a blood test on our kid yet and that’s the most terrifying part. It’s fucking devastating.'"

Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/22/i-dont-know-how-well-survive-the-farmers-facing-ruin-in-americas-forever-chemicals-crisis

#EPA #InformedConsent #PFOS #WaterIsLife #ToxicWaste #FoodProduction

All the time stupid ppl are in charge of world govts, brainwashing other stupid ppl to vote for them in stupidly buzzed-up election campaigns, NOTHING WILL CHANGE FOR #PLANETEARTH.

#Solarpanels, #windfarms, bans on plastic, #recycling, reusable products, #EVs, public transport concessions, #organicfarming .. ALL OF IT GOOD, BUT USELESS.

If we keep getting #narcissist MALE leaders like #Trump, #Putin, (Bolsonaro), #Netanyahu, #Xi, #Kim we are all of us #doomed to roast, starve, burn, drown, thirst to death by 2040.
Fifteen years.
That's it.
Done

U.S. States With the Most #Organic #Farms
https://www.globaltrademag.com/u-s-states-with-the-most-organic-farms/

Organic Food Sales Since 2008
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Milk & Chicken Top Organic Commodities Sold
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Organic Acreage and Farms Map
California has 20% of US Organic Farmland
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@shepard #organicfarming

Agrifood Brief: Co-existential crisis https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/agrifood-brief-co-existential-crisis/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #geneediting #ifoam #NGTs #organic #organicfarming

Timing, monitoring key to sustainable farming, says winemaker https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/timing-monitoring-key-to-sustainable-farming-says-winemaker/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #biostimulants #integratedpestmanagement #ipm #organicfarming #Wine

Organic Farming, Where Next? Royal Highland Show 2023
#organicfarming #Scotland
https://theorkneynews.scot/2023/06/14/organic-farming-where-next-royal-highland-show-2023/

Map of the Week: Organic Wildculture - find out more at http://wrld.at/motw270 #maps #cartograms #cartography #worldmapper #motw #farming #agriculture #organic #organicagriculture #wildculture #organicfarming #nature #conservation #food #foodproduction

RT @eucapnetwork: #agriresearch conference, breakout session tools & skills to bridge gap between R&I and practice:
✅Thematic Networks for #eipagri #operationalgroups
✅EU advisory networks #organicfarming #pesticides #forestry #livestock #fertilisers
✅Horizon multi-actor projects https://t.co/itll6CqDwA

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUAgri/status/1664241157172346885

Grow #HealthyFood with these eight valuable #OrganicFarming practices

https://food.news/2023-05-29-how-organic-farming-practices-preserve-world-biodiversity.html

RT @Agroforestry: 💡Inspiring insights on improving sustainability from the @FAOScienceChief at the @EUAgri #AgriResearch conference!

Ms @IsmahaneElouafi spoke about how a wide range of solutions - including #agroecology, #organicfarming, and #agroforestry - can contribute to accelerating[...] https://t.co/ZWosBzpZKr

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUAgri/status/1663899382855368705

Lodi Certified Farmers Market, every Thursday evening in Downtown Lod through end of summer. #lodifarmersmarket #lodiwinecountry #randycaparosophotography #organicfarming

Grow #HealthyFood with these eight valuable #OrganicFarming practices

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-05-29-how-organic-farming-practices-preserve-world-biodiversity.html

Yesterday I sent a toot about the only one percent of Irish farmers who grow vegetables, and look what my friend send to me as an answer.

https://www.theorganiccentre.ie/

#Farming #Ireland #OrganicFarming #Leitrim #Seeds #Vegetables

@fmhilton
Fires are a complex thing. We understand that #controlledBurns are a part of maintaining some #ecosystems and even the #Aboriginal communities would do fires.

Our understanding is #industrialAgriculture is poison for #ecosystems, with #GMO crops designed to kill #insects and other forms of #biodiversity.

With #organicFarming, there is a 35% increase in variety of species in an area, and 50% greater abundance of #wildlife.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/01/us/illinois-dust-storm-crashes/index.html people were killed after a dust storm caused dozens of vehicles to crash along a major highway in Central Illinois on Monday, officials said.

The crashes along I-55 led to the interstate closing in Sangamon and Montgomery counties dust from newly plowed fields in unstainable farming practices, took over the highway.
#Environmental #Sustainability #OrganicFarming

RT @cdeualmeria: 🚨¡Presenta tu candidatura a los Premios #EUOrganic 2023! 🌾

🐞Beneficia a la #biodiversidad
🌱Preserva la #fertilidad del suelo
🐄Promueve el bienestar de los #animales

Vía @EUAgri #Organicfarming

🔗Link ⬇️

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUAgri/status/1650444653592821761

The Future of Agriculture and Organic Farming
by Maher Asaad Baker
#agriculture #organicfarming
https://maher-asaad-baker.medium.com/the-future-of...

If you want to know if a block of land in France is being farmed organically, now you can look it up online! Filters are provided for field crops, forage crops, vegetables, fruit, grapes, perfume/medicinals and finally, others (which includes olives).

I note that our vineyards are correctly identified as being organic... :-)

#Farming #Organics #OrganicFarming #France #FruitProduction #VegetableProduction #OliveProduction #Wine #Grapes #OrganicWine #Bio

https://www.agencebio.org/cartobio/

Sutton Community Farm is fundraising to help get through the cost of living crisis.

The farm is a community-owned farm - the only one in London - and focuses on naturally-grown, local, seasonal produce; improving biodiversity; and supporting other organic farmers nationwide. They deliver across S London and NE Surrey!

If anybody would like to contribute:

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-sutton-community-farm

#Biodiversity #OrganicFarming #SeasonalProduce #LocalProduce #Fundraising #CostOfLiving #SaveSuttonCommunityFarm

RT @ruralnetwork: ATTENTION to Organics Industry - Awards application opening this Sat @agriculture_ie #organicfarming

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUAgri/status/1638190265843212289