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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.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 17, 2024
The team in Alexandria is testing 20 more varieties at their 17-acre farm, located on a former cotton plantation that serves as the central research hub for crop and equipment trials. Lotus Foods primarily works with farmers overseas, but teamed up with Mason to work on bringing Jubilee Justice rice to market.
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Civil Eats
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Last fall, Ava Taesali opened Kava Queen , Oahus only brick-and-mortar kava bar, after three years of building a loyal following for this traditional beverage at farmers markets in Honolulu. The rise of plantation agriculture uprooted Native communities, replacing local food systems with sprawling sugarcane and pineapple fields.
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.
Modern Farmer
OCTOBER 16, 2023
The White Oak Initiative , a group of researchers, government agencies and industry insiders dedicated to conservation, estimates that there are more than 100 million acres of white oak across the US, and roughly 75 percent of that is mature.
Modern Farmer
DECEMBER 4, 2023
The more familiar people are with where linen comes from and how it’s made, the better it’s expected to fare in a market saturated with cheap synthetic fabrics. As textile mills began to proliferate, the cotton grown on Southern plantations, which relied on the labor of enslaved people, proved to be a cheaper option than flax.
Civil Eats
MAY 21, 2024
Sometimes, the coffee is picked, but heavy rains wash out the roads, and farmers can’t get their product to market. million acres of shade-grown coffee, much of it bordering protected natural areas. food market for tamale wraps. A coffee plant wilts in the sun on a plantation near Manizales, Colombia. Mexico has nearly 1.5
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