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

Modern Farmer

The school ran an outdoor hydroponics farm this summer to help work out logistics on the soon-to-be-built indoor vertical farm. Red Angus cows help students learn about agroecology at Walla Walla Community College. Agroecology incorporates the whole food systems and dynamics of the community,” says Alan Raeder, Ph.D.,

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2024: A Year in Review

Sustainable Harvest International

Through this partnership, the Belize program and Shipstern are working together to conserve critical forestland and waterways that provide essential wildlife habitats and support the livelihoods of rural farmers. New Initiatives In October 2024, a documentary on SHIs agroecology efforts in Central America premiered.

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Will Local Food Survive Trump’s USDA?

Civil Eats

Those farms had already been expanding due to a movement toward local food as a way to produce healthier, regenerative foods while paying farmers more for their crops and therefore rebuilding a rural America hollowed out by consolidation. This is truly economic development for our rural communities, McCormick said.

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