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20 Food Systems Reads that Will Inspire You this Summer

Food Tank

Food Tank is compiling a list of books that will engage, educate, and inspire you this summer. Rethink your relationship with gardening in Tama Matsuoka Wong’s Into the Weeds: How to Garden Like a Forager , or learn about food systems innovations in the face of climate change in Food Systems of the Future.

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To Solve Climate and Food Challenges, We Need Ambitious Ideas Like These

Food Tank

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. I’m still reflecting on something Zitouni Ould-Dada, a Senior Advisor at FAIRR, said during Food Tank’s inaugural London Climate Action Week Summit earlier this summer. And as Food Tankers, we need to reflect on ourselves, too.

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

Modern Farmer

Walla Walla’s hands-on coursework is bringing together agriculture and culinary students as part of a nascent movement among community colleges that are increasingly bringing food production into curricula in new and innovative ways. Walla Walla Community College hopes to offer surplus agricultural products at its food pantry, too.

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Wild Nuts Are Making a Comeback in Southern Appalachia

Civil Eats

Given their labor-intensive harvest and processing requirements, however, wild nuts largely fell out of favor as the country’s food system became more industrialized and commercial U.S. They’re creating new equipment, new processing methods and food types,” he says. nut production became concentrated in California.

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The Fifth National Climate Assessment: Implications for Agriculture

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

from Chapter 11 of the Fifth National Climate Assessment The agriculture chapter notes that all dimensions of food security will be affected by climate change and that crop insurance costs have already risen in response to increased losses. high-efficiency irrigation and genetic modification) rather than systems approaches.

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Digging into the House Farm Bill: Part 4

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth post in a multi-part blog series analyzing the Farm Food and National Security Act of 2024 (FFNSA), which was reported out of the House Agriculture Committee on Friday, May 24. The second post explores the FFNSA’s impacts on local and regional food systems. 2501, 2502).

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

Civil Eats

Farmers were hurting, consumers were worried, and Maine’s food system looked to be in crisis. Leafy greens, such as lettuce, have a high transfer rate and can easily carry dangerous levels of forever chemicals as can hay and grasses usedfor animal forage.

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