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. Source your seeds and plants from small-scale community seed growers, seed libraries, and seed banks that are breeding diversity and resilience.

Food 129

Food Seeding Compost Ecology 129

Food Tank

JULY 2, 2024

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.

Food 131

Food Forage Agroecology Processing 131

RR2CS

JULY 18, 2023

They all seem to be part of the vast landscape of good land stewardship practices, like sustainable agriculture, organic agriculture, agroecology, permaculture, and regenerative agriculture. Back in December of 2022, we hosted a webinar with Dr. Jill Bainard, from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, on polycultures in forage systems.

Forage 52

Forage Agroecology Crop Agriculture 52

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 19, 2023

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.”

Forage 141

Forage Processing Yield Production 141

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

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.

Food 98

Food Farming Farming Agroecology 98

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

From losing seed crops as wildfires rage for weeks, losing entire crops due to erratic freezes, to losing farms as drought dries up available water, farmers’ risks are rising. The Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024 (FFNSA) fails to meet the moment for farmers across the country who are on the front lines of a changing climate.

Farming 93

Farming Farming Agriculture Agriculture 93

ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Virginia Tech and Virginia Cooperative Extension’s project team conducted 11 semi-structured interviews and conversations across Virginia to learn and better understand farmers’ and ranchers’ agroecological motivations and overall values related to the protection and conservation of water resources.

Cattle 69

Cattle Pasture Poultry Family Farming 69