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Butcher profile: Will Simkin, Essington Farm Shop, Wolverhampton

Sustainable Food Trust

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.

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As the Salton Sea Shrinks, Agriculture’s Legacy Turns to Dust

Civil Eats

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.

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These State Lawmakers Are Collaborating on Policies that Support Regenerative Agriculture

Civil Eats

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.