WATCH: How AgriSolar Helped the Cows Come Home to One Northeast Farm
For more than 150 years Knowlton Family Farms in Grafton, Massachusetts has been a family-owned operation. It’s grown and shrunk over the years, and now is back in a period of expansion thanks to combining solar energy production with agriculture.
The…
NCAT Supports Bipartisan Effort to Expand AgriSolar Research
The National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) applauds Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Senator Mike Braun (R-IN) for introducing a bill that will expand research for agrivoltaics, or agrisolar, which pairs appropriate farmland with…
NCAT’s Free Farmer-Veteran Training Headed to Massachusetts
The National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) is partnering with New Entry Sustainable Farming Project (NESFP) to bring NCAT’s free Armed to Farm training to the Bay State for the first time. Armed to Farm will take…
How You Can Support Biochar Research
Biochar is one of the most promising tools to build soil organic matter, remove carbon from the atmosphere, and improve soil health. That promise has prompted growing support for federal legislation to increase biochar research.
Biochar…
NCAT Offers Free Summer Sustainable Growing Series
The National Center for Appropriate Technology is offering a series of free monthly workshops this summer on how to grow food sustainably.
The workshops are from 10 a.m. to noon at NCAT’s Small-Scale Intensive Farm Training (SIFT) demonstration…
Montana-Grown Food to be Showcased at Farm to School Workshop in Gardiner
Montana-grown and raised foods will take center stage in Gardiner on Friday, April 21, when the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) joins with Farm to School of Park County, Gardiner Public Schools, and other partnering organizations…
Leading Agricultural Organizations Say Biochar Promise Can Be Realized When Government, Research, NGOs and Industry Come Together
American Farmland Trust, the National Center for Appropriate Technology and the U.S. Biochar Initiative today released Recommendations to Scale Up Sustainable Biochar Research and Commercialization for Agriculture and Conservation, which…
WATCH: AgriSolar Partnerships Bloom in Minnesota
Minnesota energy companies, solar developers, farmers, and chefs are partnering in innovative ways to grow food, renewable energy, and pollinator habitat all within the same piece of land. The National Center for Appropriate Technology’s (NCAT)…
VIDEO: How A Shepherd and Solar Developer Are Joining Forces to Grow Sheep, Clean Energy
The National Center for Appropriate Technology’s (NCAT) AgriSolar Clearinghouse today premiered its short film “The Solar Shepherd” during the 2023 Solar Farm Summit in Chicago.
The film showcases a family-owned farm in central Massachusetts…