Nicole Rakobitsch: Sustainability on Small Organic Family Farms

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English - October 04, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutes - 40.5 MB
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Nicole Rakobitsch is the Director of Sustainability at Cooperative Regions of Organic Producer Pools (CROPP)/Organic Valley. Organic Valley is America's largest cooperative of organic farmers and one of the nation's leading organic brands. Tune in to learn more about:

Nicole’s path that led her to sustainability and to Organic Valley; Why organic farmers are the real stewards of the land; The $25 million grant awarded to Organic Valley that focuses on helping small organic family farms establish and measure on-farm practices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; The issue with methane gas from farms; Silvopasture, agroforestry and other climate smart farming practices; Carbon sequestration and what climate smart food really is; Carbon insetting;

To learn more about Nicole’s work and CROPP/Organic Valley,

go to https://www.organicvalley.coop/why-organic-valley/sustainability/.