Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

In Alaska, seaweed farmers can only cultivate seaweed varieties that grow natively within 50 kilometers of their farm. That’s a lot of ocean to potentially cultivate. Can you take this biomass that is naturally growing, can you cultivate it and then use it as a food and feed product, or use it as a way to improve people’s well-being?”

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Food Tank

JUNE 14, 2024

Urban agriculture can take on many different forms including, but not limited to, community gardens, urban farms, greenspaces, bioswales, rain gardens, community composting, beekeeping, and aquaculture. It is rooted in practices that support the environment, promote sustainable methods of food production, and minimize waste.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2023

Hailing from a commercial lobstering family in Maine, Patryn sees cultivating this marine crop as a lifeline for a community threatened by fishing’s uncertain future. In response, cultivators are calling for more policies to govern their business and protect waterways and marine ecosystems. in the four years since its founding.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 15, 2023

mile rock-walled lagoon used for aquaculture. Enlisting a staff of 16 and an army of volunteers, the organization cultivates the crop in knee-deep water diverted from Heʻeia stream. In 2001, executive director Kanekoa Shultz, a marine biologist and seaweed expert, helped rebuild the adjacent Paepae o Heʻeia fishpond.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 19, 2024

To cultivate robust crops, understanding the soil's condition is vital, which is where soil testing comes in. Finding the right location to add nutrients in various contexts (gardening, farming, aquaculture, etc.) Healthy Crops Start with Your Soil The foundation of healthy crops begins with healthy soil.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 21, 2024

When he isn’t raking for wild quahog, Pocknett manages the tribe’s shellfish farm, using modern aquaculture practices that are a footnote in the Wampanoags’ millennia-old relationship to the waterways of the Cape. In 2022, the tribe was awarded an aquaculture grant of $1.1

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2024

Here, over the next 45 days, the spores will be carefully cultivated into seed for farmers and scientists to outplant in the ocean. I don’t know any other agricultural or aquaculture industry where the cost of seed can be as much as 50 percent of the farmer’s revenue.” According to the U.N.’s produces less than.01

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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.

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Agritecture Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Today, we have farms beyond the imaginable : Rotterdam’s floating dairy farm that houses 40 cows, Peconic Escargot’s greenhouse that raises snails, GreenWave’s 3D ocean farm for regenerative aquaculture, and the first-ever underwater cultivation of terrestrial plants by Nemo’s Garden.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

They have made engagement on “restorative aquaculture” one of their philanthropic planks, funding numerous ventures on both sides of the notebook. When it comes to groundfish especially, all fisheries policy today is based entirely on the kind of policies [Walmart and the Walton family] peddled about 10-12 years ago.”

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Civil Eats

JULY 31, 2024

Atlantic Sea Farms, the largest seaweed aquaculture business in the country, has solved several challenges that seaweed farmers face in Maine and other states. But for small farmers like himself, he says, kelp farming “wouldn’t be possible for us if we didn’t have a good business to deal with.” Transportation is one.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2024

The Scientists Who Kickstarted American Kelp Farming The science behind this boom in seaweed cultivation began in New England nearly 50 years ago. Seaweed farming, a longstanding tradition in Asia for more than a hundred years, is now gaining a place on U.S.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The towns Harbor Management Committee , with support from the Urban Harbors Institute at the University of Massachusetts Boston, is compiling its second draft of hundreds of pages detailing everything from dock compliance to potential new aquaculture sites, which can help improve water quality over time. What do we do tomorrow?

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

They sell the wild and cultivated seaweed dried, and use the less delicious, more abundant kinds to fertilize the saltwater farm they’re reviving nearby. It was slippery, al dente, and tasted a little, but not unpleasantly, like blood. In a more sheltered part of the bay, the Welcomes farm sugar kelp and oysters.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Black Urban Growers (BUGs) , United States BUGs is committed to fostering a strong, supportive community for cultivators in both urban and rural settings, while empowering Black leadership in agriculture. ReFED , United States ReFED is a U.S.-based based nonprofit focused on reducing food loss and waste through data-driven solutions.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 16, 2024

What We Sow: On the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds by Jennifer Jewell What We Sow comes from gardener, writer, educator, and advocate Jennifer Jewell, who since 2016 has hosted the award winning radio program and podcast Cultivating Place.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Black Urban Growers , United States Black Urban Growers (BUGs) is dedicated to fostering a robust community that supports cultivators in urban and rural environments, while nurturing Black leadership. By supporting the capacity of food banks, they also work to reduce food loss and waste and strengthen the resilience of communities.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Sprinkled throughout the recipes are fascinating historical tidbits about the Quaker who first cultivated rhubarb in the 1730s, for example, and the Indigenous tribes that used spruce tip tea to ward off scurvy. To make an amaro (relatively easy!) you need to first learn to make a tincture.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 31, 2024

There have been myriad overfishing crises, but cultivation of the oceans has been limited. Marine and coastal aquaculture production has soared since 1990 , reaching a record 78.4 (Credit: Emma Bautista) For most of human history, the world’s oceans have been largely free of intensive farming. That may soon change.

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