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Wild Nuts Are Making a Comeback in Southern Appalachia

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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. 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.

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“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). The challenge facing the scientists now is the removal of the PFAS from the hemp plants once they’re harvested.

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