This case study describes how Cindy and Jeff started working toward their farming dreams in 1999, how they have gradually added enterprises, and how they integrate farming with their off-farm jobs and their overall lifestyle.

Using cover crops, intercropping and other techniques of organic farming to grow taro (Colocasia esculenta) to determine economic sustainability and improved soil quality.

Eric Wagoner , the creator of LocallyGrown, said that the initiative “…is best described as an online farmers market system where customers buy their produce online and come to one spot to pick it all up.” Originally developed for a farmers market in Athens, GA in 2002, LocallyGrown has expanded to 310 communities across North America, most of which are rural.

It’s a very simple concept designed to overcome the barriers of affordability and access to healthy foods. The MoGro vision is to eliminate food deserts in New Mexico so that all communities have access to healthy, affordable, and sustainably-sourced foods.

On Beech Hill Farm, College of the Atlantic integrates educational and organic production goals through the interdisciplinary degree of Human Ecology.

Ecologically-Based Pest Management at UC Berkeley’s Albany Gill Tract field

Subsistence farming and agroecological research go hand-in-hand in this partnership between a cooperative community and a local non-profit environmental organization. Farming practices are principally “biointensive,” which fosters healthy soils, conserves space, and requires low input, while maximizing yields and increasing sustainability and overall health of this small-scale food production system.

Agroecoystems in southern Wisconsin are dominated by monoculture or simple rotations of corn and soybeans. This study researches the agronomic, economic, and ecological aspects of conventional high input systems and low-input rotations.

Thermophilic (hot) composting of human manure renders it hygienic and safe to use as a valuable fertilizer for food gardens.

Ecologically destructive practices threaten sugarcane farming in Everglades Agricultural Area. Soil subsidence and phosphorus runoff are two serious problems that the industry has begun to address, but sustainability remains a future goal rather than a reality.