Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 15, 2023

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. Originally constructed by Native Hawaiians hundreds of years before colonization, the effort resurrected a 1.3-mile

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Civil Eats

JULY 31, 2024

That day, they’d been out to their four-acre farm and back twice, harvesting a total of 6,300 pounds. Atlantic Sea Farms, the largest seaweed aquaculture business in the country, has solved several challenges that seaweed farmers face in Maine and other states. “Anything you do on a boat is a long day,” said Scott.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management. It won’t be easy.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 11, 2024

(Photo credit: Emma Glassman-Hughes) With help from the tribes Natural Resources Department , the town of Mashpee is compiling a harbor management plan, an extensive document that will set guidelines for the construction of marinas and docks. We want to say, okay, here we are today. What do we do tomorrow?

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 21, 2024

When he isn’t raking for wild quahog, Pocknett manages the tribe’s shellfish farm, using modern aquaculture practices that are a footnote in the Wampanoags’ millennia-old relationship to the waterways of the Cape. All but one of those acres, however, are landlocked. In 2022, the tribe was awarded an aquaculture grant of $1.1

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

State and county profiles are forthcoming, and additional data on specific topics such as irrigation and aquaculture will also follow later this year.) Farm numbers decreased in every size category except one: Those operating 5,000 acres or more. Cover crop acres increased by 2.6 percentage point from 2017.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Yet Hartman and his family manage to work less and make the same income on one third of an acre—the renowned Clay Bottom Farm —as they did on an acre. That’s not to say growing food isn’t hard work. Hartman maximizes many practices from the past while implementing today’s tech “on a human scale” to reap the greatest reward.

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