Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Thats because so much rice is grown around the world: Roughly 11 percent of all arable land is devoted to this crop, a daily staple for half the people on Earth. In November, her farm in Alexandria achieved a milestone by harvesting its first full acre of rice after three years of smaller trials, marking their best harvest yet.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

This will result in a far more distributed, localized food-production system that is more stable and resilient than the one it replaces. We will move from a centralized system dependent on scarce resources to a distributed system based on abundant resources. Geography will no longer offer any competitive advantage.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

That changed, however, after Moyer and her partner established an organic farm on 10 acres in the Sierra foothills of California. Because of the family fracture, she never visited India, did not speak the language, and could not replicate her grandmother’s traditional cooking.

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