Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

If we took 5 percent of the acres and diverted them into almost anything that wasnt a commodity, its literally an additional $2.5 Large plantations reemerged in the Delta, worked by sharecroppers rather than slaves. In the Delta, it is around 1 percent, and those farms cover, on average, less than 100 acres.

Acre 108

Acre Crop Farming Farming 108

Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

López’s family moved to Salton City from Arizona in 2018 when her then-husband got a job working in greenhouses in the Imperial Valley, south of the sea. Date palm plantations and orchards cover the eastern Coachella Valley to the north. 1 commodity for the last 64 years. But the effort is woefully behind schedule.

Pesticide 98

Pesticide Acre Agriculture Agriculture 98

Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

Next to the entrance is an eye-catching display of bedding plants which are grown in one of the farm’s greenhouses. A gap year of just travelling didn’t feel right, so he took a job on a palm oil plantation in Papua New Guinea. The shop is housed in a modern, one-storey building. In 2005, aged 23, he returned to the farm.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Straw Pasture 52

Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

On a crisp weekend this past fall, 30 state legislators from across the nation descended on TomKat Ranch , an 1,800-acre ranch focused on regenerative agriculture in Pescadero, California, an hour south of San Francisco.

Agriculture 140

Agriculture Agriculture Ranching Food 140