Every Acre

The Official Farm Blog

Introducing: Farm Portfolio

Farm Portfolio is designed to be a streamlined & diversified way to invest in U.S. farmland that enables regenerative agriculture, renewable energy, and nature-based carbon projects to move forward faster. Our focus is U.S. Farmland with energy potential and overlooked natural capital.

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Local grain with Cairnspring Mills

If you’ve never found yourself particularly excited about grain milling, all it takes is a conversation with Cairnspring Mills CEO Kevin Morse and you’ll want to shout about it from the rooftops (silo-tops?). Kevin started exploring the idea of local grain in his home state of Washington in 2015, and within a few years he was stone milling artisanal flours extolled by the nation’s finest chefs. Beyond making for a delicious loaf of bread, Kevin believes Cairnspring flour demonstrates how decentralized grain markets offer a better future for farmers and consumers alike. He talked to us about the blending of ancient technology with modern efficiencies, the passionate grain farmers of Skagit Valley, and helping to uplift his rural community.

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Chestnuts for the people with Breadtree Farms

Russell Wallack is the founding farmer at Breadtree Farms, a Hudson Valley based organization working to grow the regenerative chestnut industry in the Northeast. By developing and managing chestnut farms, expanding opportunities for carbon removal, and co-creating regional agroforestry infrastructure, the team at Breadtree envisions a safer and more equitable climate-friendly food system. Rest assured, after reading this conversation, you’ll never look at a humble chestnut the same way again.

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Why Farm?

At Farm, we’re working with farmers and ranchers that care deeply about the health and productivity of the land, and want to expand the footprint of their operations to regenerate soil at scale.

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Silvopasture strategies with John Foye of Working Trees

Silvopasture — the intermixing of trees and grazing land — has the potential to sequester gigatons of carbon while increasing revenue for farmers and providing better habitats for livestock. But right now, the barriers to transition are too high for most ranchers. In our conversation, John shared how Working Trees is making silvopasture an accessible proposition for operations of all sizes, and his dreams of shadier grazing everywhere. John Foye believes in meeting farmers where they are. The CEO and co-founder created Working Trees because he couldn’t reconcile how, despite the widely known climate benefits of tree cover, millions of acres of deforested farmland still bake beneath unshaded sun.

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Sustainable food foundations with Jayce Hafner of FarmRaise

Funding is a notoriously burdensome process for small farmers, especially if they’re working to transition to climate friendly practices. Enter FarmRaise, a self-proclaimed ‘farmer obsessed’ team helping lighten that load so producers across the U.S. have the resources they need to keep their soil healthy and their businesses running.

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Alternative investing with Stefan von Imhof of Alts.co

The landscape of alternative investing is massive and hard to make sense of. How do you find assets that align with your values if you don’t know where to look? Alts.co is a new global community dedicated to guiding you through that journey. Co-founders Stefan von Imhof and Wyatt Cavalier do in-depth research and quantitative analysis across dozens of asset classes, and offer thoughtful, unbiased recommendations. We called up Stephen at his home in Melbourne to learn more about the resource they are building and why alternative assets are the way of the future.

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A quick guide to carbon offsets

A growing number of the world’s largest companies are committing to a “net-zero” emissions target as a means of addressing climate change. Included among them are giants in oil, mining, chemicals, utilities, cement, steel, and food processing — industries that together represent 64 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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