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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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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. Like eating wild nuts itself, Holt says, such an approach to forestry would represent a return to older patterns of life. “I

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

Civil Eats

“We are trying to be as optimistic as possible that there will be feasible scientific strategies in the future,” says Nancy McBrady, deputy commissioner of the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry (DACF). From an agriculture perspective, we want the soil to come out the other side usable and healthy.

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