Civil Eats

AUGUST 21, 2024

and sovereign Indigenous nations, and grant unlimited harvests, even from private property. People of the First Light For thousands of years, the Wampanoag —the “People of the First Light”—have harvested fish for food, trade, art, and fertilizer. In 2022, the tribe was awarded an aquaculture grant of $1.1 Not just food.”

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Aquaculture 134

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Seaweed naturally absorbs carbon as it grows, but unless it is harvested, it decomposes and releases carbon back. 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. All commercial seaweed farms are on land.

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Farming Farming Food Aquaculture 104

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. Many utilize regenerative growing and composting to maintain healthy crop life cycles from seed to harvest and foster healthy soils.

Agriculture 122

Agriculture Agriculture Food Compost 122

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.

Acre 117

Acre Plantation Cultivation Crop 117

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. Over time, the administrators hope to expand with aquaculture, waste management, raised-bed gardening and more.

Food 97

Food Farming Farming Agroecology 97

Civil Eats

JULY 31, 2024

That day, they’d been out to their four-acre farm and back twice, harvesting a total of 6,300 pounds. Maine is the heart of America’s farmed seaweed industry, supplying half its harvest— well over a million pounds —last season. Then they sell the harvest to ASF, which picks up the kelp on the dock. Transportation is one.

Marketing 99

Marketing Harvesting Harvester Harvest 99

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. Many growers see it as a bottleneck: Propagation from wild-harvested seaweed is costly, lengthy, and ties rural coastal communities to laboratories that are often hours, if not days, away.

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Science Yield Seeding Harvesting 105