Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2024

Robb sees his work of coaxing beneficial fungi back into the soil, which he largely learned from an online program called the Soil Food Web School , as both a challenge to mainstream agriculture and as a way forward to restore agricultural soils. He mostly grows salad greens across 3 acres of farmland.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

In our series of butcher profiles, food and farming writer, Marianne Landzettel, meets butchers from across the UK who have built their business around high welfare, sustainably produced meat. Every Thursday, a group of 20 to 25 is transported in a trailer with thick straw bedding to a small abattoir which is just over six miles away.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

SFT CEO Patrick Holden and his wife Becky Holden farm 300 acres in West Wales and produce a raw milk cheddar called Hafod with the milk from their herd of Ayrshire cows. We farm 300 acres, and each field has its own unique identity, character and distinctiveness.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2023

Burger, who owns Bethel Springs Farm on 3 acres in Rickreall, Oregon with her husband, grows copious amounts of Rockwell beans, along with a host of other vegetables most likely to make an appearance in a winter soup. The final straw for Hachmyer was losing half of her crops in 2021 to drought.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

Over that time, only a handful of smaller-scale research projects have attempted to document current sediment contaminants on what is now almost 20,000 acres of exposed playa that is adding dust to the region’s already poor air quality. But the effort is woefully behind schedule. As of March 2023, only 290 had been completed.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As part of a new, two-part series, food and farming writer, Marianne Landzettel, meets with upland farmers in northeast England who explain why the shift to the new farm payments scheme – the Sustainable Farming Incentive – poses an existential threat for many upland farmers. At present he farms 485 acres, of which he owns 160.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

Textiles are a major source of microplastics in the ocean, where they weave their way into the food chain, causing untold harms to marine life. The claim is controversial, however, in terms of biodegradability and because plant-based plastics require crops such as corn and farmland that could have been used to grow food.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

When two small Western grass-fed beef brands combined forces in the name of growth in fall 2022, Jeff “Trip” Tripician was tapped to lead the newly formed company, Grass Fed Foods. Photo courtesy of Grass Fed Foods) Buyers from Costco, Sysco, and Whole Foods climbed onto a hay wagon, eager to get started.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

While some farmers are undoubtedly making real efforts to farm in more sustainable ways, all the indications to date suggest that the bulk of the food we consume will continue to be produced in exploitative ways that are associated with a wide range of negative impacts and increased risks , including reductions in important soil microorganisms.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Your food prices Inflation has cooled significantly since 2022 , but high prices — especially high food prices — remain a concern for many Americans. Meanwhile, Trump has said he will tax imported goods to lower food prices , though analysts have pointed out that the tax would likely do the opposite.

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