Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

land, with cropland expanding by 1 million acres per year, fueling habitat loss for wildlife and mammals. We found that when these natural elements were included in croplands, and also for forest plantations, that species abundance and species richness can be similar. A good example is Christina Allen’s 10-acre farm in Maryland.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The young couple started a 180-acre dairy farm for livelihood to raise their 14 children. In his debut book, Nuggets of Gold , historian Patrick Dixon offers a primer on the history of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), the poultry industry, and the chicken nugget. And she could. By 1926, she had 10,000 birds.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

—Matthew Wheeland Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography By David Gilbert Along the slopes of a volcano in Indonesia, a group of Minangkabau Indigenous agricultural workers began quietly reclaiming their land in 1993, growing cinnamon trees, chilies, eggplants, and other foods on the edges of plantations.

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