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20 Organizations Cultivating the Food Movement in Atlanta

Food Tank

They also bring local government leaders together to develop plans that integrate urban agriculture into city planning processes. These efforts encompass small scale farming, agroecology, agroforestry, and reforestation. And they have children’s program that introduces young people to edible playground gardens.

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Agroecological Crop Selection, Part 2

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By Justin Duncan, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist For the past couple years, NCAT has worked with the Southern Risk Management Education Center to provide training to farmers on how to better decide which crops to plant based on agroecological methods. I may not talk to them, but I do listen, or, rather, observe them.

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20 Food Systems Reads that Will Inspire You this Summer

Food Tank

He investigates how UK food culture has grown fragmented, relying on both ultra-processed and diverse, high-quality foods. Feeding Britain argues that, although it will take time, transforming the UK food system is in the public interest and is a process that must begin now.

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Wild Nuts Are Making a Comeback in Southern Appalachia

Civil Eats

The rich stain was a natural consequence of how Holt spent his fall: processing thousands of pounds of black walnuts through the Asheville Nuttery. 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.

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The Power of Millets and Farmer Research Collaboration

Food Tank

In the spirit of this annual theme, sorghum cultivation was recently explored in depth at the Global Sorghum Conference in Montpellier, France, in early June. Increasing Equity in the Research Process AMSP’s organization name echoes the FRN paradigm; it means “knowledge must support the physical strength of farmers” in the Mooré language.

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PFAS Shut Maine Farms Down. Now, Some Are Rebounding.

Civil Eats

Once the Clean Water Act passed in 1972, many chemicals and toxins that had flowed freely from paper mills into Maine’s rivers started to be processed through sewage plants. 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

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Greens as a Secondary Income from your Cash Crop Plants

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Yet, we tend to restrict ourselves to greens cultivated primarily for their leaves, leaving them susceptible to bolting in high temperatures or losing leaves to disease. However, it’s crucial to ensure proper processing to remove cyanide. Cassava Leaves Cassava leaves can be eaten if they are ground and cooked thoroughly.