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Food Systems 101: How Community Colleges Are Helping Students Connect Farm to Fork

Modern Farmer

The agriculture students will be growing and raising specialty crops and animals for us, and culinary students will get the chance to get their hands in the dirt to learn what it takes to grow a crop,” says chef-instructor and Top Chef alum Robin Leventhal. Bergen Community College was one of the grant recipients, receiving a $4.5-million

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The Hard Work of Bringing Kelp to Market

Civil Eats

One type in particular, kelp—a large brown algae with many species, including sugar kelp— has been hailed as an ecologically beneficial, nutritious superfood that can be farmed on both U.S. investment doesn’t yet address a range of logistical issues that challenge—some might even say threaten—the success of seaweed production.