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20 Food Systems Reads that Will Inspire You this Summer

Food Tank

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. Food Tank is compiling a list of books that will engage, educate, and inspire you this summer.

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

Food Tank

How can gardeners and eaters use traditional wisdom and foraging to save money and save the planet? What challenges will new farmers face in a climatically uncertain future? How do racial and class inequities help giant corporations keep small businesses in the shadows?

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

Modern Farmer

Bakersfield College boasts an Edible Gardens Catalog program, Kalamazoo Community College offers Sustainable Food Systems Competencies coursework and Greenfield Community College’s Farm and Food Systems covers mushroom foraging and cultivation, permaculture design, beekeeping, food preservation and more.

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The Fifth National Climate Assessment: Implications for Agriculture

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

In response, the chapter centers agroecological solutions like enhanced soil health and diversified landscapes. The authors also note ongoing and increasing “disruptions to the ability of subsistence-based peoples to access food through hunting, fishing, and foraging.” the Osage Nation’s community orchard.

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Wild Nuts Are Making a Comeback in Southern Appalachia

Civil Eats

Holt, who also works as an independent permaculture consultant and a guide for the foraging tour company No Taste Like Home , says the cooperative’s members haven’t yet paid themselves from Nuttery activities. Justin Holt shows off a handful of hickory nuts, which he says yield a milk similar to “liquid banana-nut bread.”

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Do chickens deserve better?

Sustainable Food Trust

These animals live on a diet of mainly pasture and forage, making use of land that is often unsuitable for growing other crops. Examples of good practice are already flourishing in organic and agroecological enterprises. Sheep, cattle and other ruminants are rarely raised exclusively indoors in Britain.

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Agricultural Diversification: Practice and Policy

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

And beyond the diversification associated with cropping fields, adding livestock diversity into a system can reduce challenges like pests and diseases while allowing for nutrient cycling from livestock to soil and back to crop or forage species. Mixed summer forage in the Southeast U.S.