Civil Eats

APRIL 7, 2025

His most recent book, Food Freedom: A Year of Growing and Foraging 100% of My Food , covers his efforts to live entirely independently from the industrial food system. Harvest food thats already growing, but not getting utilized, and get this nourishing, local produce to the people who need it the most.

Food 117

Food Seeding Compost Ecology 117

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 19, 2023

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. nut production became concentrated in California. There have been successes on each front.

Forage 141

Forage Processing Yield Production 141

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

The cattle, which were artificially inseminated by students in the spring, will eventually be harvested at a USDA plant and incorporated into the fine dining menu at the college’s student-run campus restaurant, Capstone Kitchen. Red Angus cows help students learn about agroecology at Walla Walla Community College.

Food 98

Food Farming Farming Agroecology 98

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

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.

Agriculture 105

Agriculture Agriculture Forage Livestock 105

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

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

Farming 145

Farming Farming Farmland Crop 145

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

The GLSAs provide vegetative cover for foraging, roosting and nesting wildlife including raptors, wading birds, songbirds, pollinating insects and small mammals such as moles and mice. “We Now, they absorb up to 16 inches of rain per hour,” says Jack Algiere, director of agroecology at Stone Barn.

Farming 97

Farming Farming Farmland Livestock 97

Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Brazil’s national requirement that 30 percent of school food ingredients be sourced from local and regional family farms helps empower and fund women agroecological producers. The book spotlights Quabbin Harvest, a food co-op in downtown Orange, Massachusetts, a former mill town that has seen better days. Meanwhile, in the U.S.,

Food 145

Food Farming Farming Forage 145