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Reviews: Food and farming in film 2025

Sustainable Food Trust

Shes already lost 13 acres to a private landowner and now the city of Bristol wants to take back 20 acres that have been leased to Yew Tree Farm since the 1960s. The film tells the story of Heal Rewildings journey to restore a 460-acre site in the Somerset countryside.

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Meet the Taro Farmer Restoring an Ecosystem Through Native Hawaiian Practices

Modern Farmer

Sprouting deep within the verdant pleats of Oʻahu’s Koʻolau Mountains, Heʻeia stream winds through Kakoʻo ʻOʻiwi , a non-profit organization centered on a six-acre taro farm, before emptying into the wide mouth of Kane‘ohe Bay. mile rock-walled lagoon used for aquaculture. One acre can bank about a foot of water,” he says. “If

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Faces of the Farm Bill in Mississippi: Ya-Sin Shabazz

Modern Farmer

We also started the Just Water Initiative, which maintains a two-and-a-half acre off bottom oyster aquaculture operation. Aquaculture is definitely a challenge our organization is addressing that could be affected by the Farm Bill. There are other challenges in terms of land ownership, land stewardship, and retention.

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The Future of Seaweed Farming in America

Civil Eats

Still in its research phase, the 86-acre project is operated by Ocean Rainforest, a company that aims to fight climate change by growing seaweed at scale: 1 million tons a year by 2030. seaweed farm of 1 to 4 acres—and a new frontier for ocean farming. seaweed farm of 1 to 4 acres—and a new frontier for ocean farming.

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The Kelp Business is Booming. How Big is Too Big?

Modern Farmer

Bren Smith, who started the regenerative ocean farming company GreenWave , writes in his book Eat Like a Fish that anyone with $20,000 and a boat has enough to start harvesting 10 tons of kelp per acre — and net as much as $120,000 per year doing it, given they find the right buyer. The two states account for more than 85 percent of the U.S.

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Texas A&M AgriLife expands controlled environment horticulture initiatives

AgriLife Today

It might surprise any visitor to his 10-acre farm — featuring 10,000 square feet, soon to be 50,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor growing systems — that he doesn’t have a. Read More → The post Texas A&M AgriLife expands controlled environment horticulture initiatives first appeared on AgriLife Today.

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Faces of the Farm Bill: Ya-Sin Shabazz

Modern Farmer

We also started the Just Water Initiative, which maintains a two-and-a-half acre off bottom oyster aquaculture operation. Aquaculture is definitely a challenge our organization is addressing that could be affected by the Farm Bill. There are other challenges in terms of land ownership, land stewardship, and retention.