farming

Nonprofit Loudoun farm donates a quarter million pounds of food – WTOP News

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JK Community Farm, a 150-acre nonprofit farm in Purcellville, Virginia, delivered 247,000 pounds of organic produce and protein to local food banks this year. JK Community Farm in Purcellville, Virginia, produced 50,000 pounds of food this year. (Courtesy JK Community Farm) JK Community Farm in Purcellville, Virginia, produced 50,000 pounds of food this year. (Courtesy…

Autonomous tech is coming to farming. What will it mean for crops and workers who harvest them?

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HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Jeremy Ford hates wasting water. As a mist of rain sprinkled the fields around him in Homestead, Florida, Ford bemoaned how expensive it had been running a fossil fuel-powered irrigation system on his five-acre farm — and how bad it was for the planet. Earlier this month, Ford installed an automated underground…