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Emma Naluyima (born circa 1980) is a Ugandan veterinarian, urban farmer, businesswoman, elementary school educator and animal & crop farming instructor. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is calculated that she earns approximately US$100,000 annually from her farm situated on 1.0 acre (0.40 ha), in Bwerenga, Wakiso District , Uganda.
Agroforestry is a key part of One Acre Fund's work; in 2020, One Acre Fund farmers planted more than 24 million trees. [12] The organization has also been recognized for its model of financial sustainability. [13] In 2020, 77% of its field operating costs were covered by farmer repayments. [14] "Field operating costs" excludes R&D, pilot ...
Clarkson's Farm is a British television documentary series about Jeremy Clarkson and his farm in the Cotswolds.The series documents Clarkson's attempts at running a 1,000-acre (400 ha) farm near Chipping Norton in West Oxfordshire.
Salatin's father worked for a major petroleum company, Texas Oil, using his earnings to purchase a 1,000-acre farm in Venezuela. Salatin describes in his book You Can Farm how his family were involved in “wildcat oil drilling,” and after “clearing some of the jungle” to establish a chicken and dairy farm, "in a totally free market…without government regulations” they quickly ...
King Corn is a documentary film released in October 2007 that follows college friends Ian Cheney and Curtis Ellis (directed by Aaron Woolf) as they move from Boston to Greene, Iowa to grow and farm an acre of corn. Coincidentally, the trip also takes them back to where both of their families have roots.
Salatin also harvests 450 acres (1.8 km 2) of woodlands and uses the lumber to construct farm buildings. [7] One of Salatin's principles is that "plants and animals should be provided a habitat that allows them to express their physiological distinctiveness. Respecting and honouring the bigness of the pig is a foundation for societal health." [8]
In United States agricultural law, a farm’s base acreage is its crop-specific acreage of wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, upland cotton, soybeans, canola, flax, mustard, rapeseed, safflower, sunflowers, and rice eligible to enroll in the Direct and Counter-cyclical Program (DCP) under the 2002 farm bill (P.L. 101-171, Sec. 1101-1108).
Andrew Millison [1] is a Permaculture designer, instructor, and documentary videographer based out of the Pacific Northwest of the United States of America. He has been an instructor in the Horticulture Department at Oregon State University (OSU) since 2009 where he founded OSU Permaculture Design [2] which runs the premiere online university Permaculture program in the world.