Civil Eats

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Their shells are harder and thicker than those of the English walnut, the most common commercially cultivated species, and are difficult to separate from the kernel within. Their hulls cling tenaciously to the nut and, as Holt’s hands attest, stain almost everything they touch. nut production became concentrated in California.

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Sustainable Harvest International

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Dave Cushing currently serves on Sustainable Harvest International’s Board of Directors where he has led efforts to expand SHI’s impact as the co-chair of the Scale Task Force since 2018. “ SHI has a long and impressive track record cultivating an important new generation of regenerative farmers in the Global South.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2023

The Burgers are among a modest cohort of small-time growers who almost exclusively cultivate cool-weather and storage crops that they sell in the wintertime. Her main planting season runs from April through late June, and she no longer spends 10-hour days planting, harvesting, and selling at farmers’ markets in the summer.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

We can fund a farm to switch from hay to grain cultivation, which requires new equipment, new storage, and new drying facilities,” she added. “In The challenge facing the scientists now is the removal of the PFAS from the hemp plants once they’re harvested.

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Farming Farming Farmland Crop 128

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

A 2020-21 survey conducted by DFWT recorded greater use of the uncropped fields for habitat and hunting by raptors and the endangered Great Blue Pacific Heron, compared to cultivated fields. Now, they absorb up to 16 inches of rain per hour,” says Jack Algiere, director of agroecology at Stone Barn.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Brazil’s national requirement that 30 percent of school food ingredients be sourced from local and regional family farms helps empower and fund women agroecological producers. Could cultivating it offer me an opportunity to make up for all that had not passed down to me?” Meanwhile, in the U.S., We no longer trembled with fear.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

Mexico’s challenge has also bolstered its standing as hemispheric leader of an agroecology movement gaining momentum across the global south. “If But whatever its judgment, the US-Mexican dispute has put a needed spotlight on mounting global concern about the consolidation of a food system dominated by a handful of biotech and chemical firms.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

As a movement, folks organizing for food and farm justice have long imagined and cultivated systems that exist beyond and outside of a political system that was never designed for life to thrive. Commodity crops—wheat, corn, soy and the like—can be harvested by machines, but the produce that we eat requires human harvesters.

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