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Walmart’s ‘Regenerative Foodscape’

Civil Eats

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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Food Systems 101: How Community Colleges Are Helping Students Connect Farm to Fork

Modern Farmer

On the back 16 acres of Walla Walla Community College, 30 Red Angus cows stand munching on hairy vetch, ryegrass and other cover crops that were planted to help restore the soil. The next step is to get a greenhouse going in the fall and eventually scale up into a series of shipping containers.

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The Influx of CEA Investment: Where Has the Money Gone?

Agritecture Blog

It’s noteworthy that this leaves out several other types of companies, including cannabis-only growers and technology providers, indoor aquaculture startups, and controlled environment insect rearing. Conversations on the controlled environment agriculture space usually lead to comparisons between vertical farms (VFs) and greenhouses (GHs).

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The Best of Both Worlds: Hybrid Farms are Bridging Agriculture Systems

Agritecture Blog

The term is meant to capture the nuance between different agricultural methods that are often promoted as competing against each other, [such as vertical farms and greenhouses,] when in fact, they overlap, and various combinations of them can reap greater environmental, economic, and social benefits than any one solution alone.

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Our 2023 Food and Farming Holiday Book Gift Guide

Civil Eats

With instructions on how to choose the heartiest cultivars, “harden” them for winter, and outfit a greenhouse to keep vegetables just warm enough without using massive amounts of energy, The Winter Market Gardener makes a strong case for winter growing. That’s not to say growing food isn’t hard work.

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124 Food and Agriculture Organizations to Watch in 2024!

Food Tank

Global Seafood Alliance , United States The Global Seafood Alliance is the nonprofit behind two certifications helping consumers choose more sustainable seafood: Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) and Best Seafood Practices (BSP). They currently have 13 urban agricultural facilities, school gardens, hydroponic greenhouses, and soil-based farms.

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125 Food and Agriculture Organizations to Watch in 2025

Food Tank

40 Acres & A Mule Project , United States 40 Acres & A Mule seeks to acquire Black-owned farmland to be used to celebrate and preserve the history, food, and stories of Black culture in food and farming. As we enter a new quarter century, here are 125 organizations to follow and support in 2025.

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