Civil Eats

OCTOBER 1, 2024

But the discrepancy is by design, says Joshua Stoll, associate professor at the University of Maine and founder of Local Catch Network , a hub of seafood harvesters, businesses, researchers, and organizers that supports the growth of community-based seafood. A healthier system more reflective of the diversity of U.S. Alaska drives the bus.

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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.

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

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Food Tank

JUNE 22, 2024

AlgaeProBANOS wants to help businesses sustainably harvest algae, market it, and sell it to populations. They are planning to sustainably harvest seaweed from the coast of Kvarøy, a Norwegian island to produce a plant-based seafood alternative to other snack foods. One company, Sjy , hopes to sell kelp chips to the public.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2024

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. It also shortens the seaweed growing season, as sorus tissue can only be harvested for a few months of the year. According to the U.N.’s

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The small, invasive shore crabs are easy to find—they like to hang out in tidal marshes, alongside rocky shores, and on sand flats, but finding fishermen and seafood harvesters willing to catch the crabs for human consumption is a challenge. David Standridge is on a mission to bring green crabs to more plates. And it’s not just crabs.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Seaweed naturally absorbs carbon as it grows, but unless it is harvested, it decomposes and releases carbon back. The company is also developing a harvesting machine that will reap the seaweed “using minimum cost and time.” 70 (for PET polyethelene) or $.67 67 (for cotton) per pound. Large-scale farmed U.S.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 17, 2024

Farinella’s whistleblower account coincides with a three-year investigation, “ Hidden Harvest ,” published in March by the Corporate Accountability Lab (CAL), exposing the human rights abuses rampant across India’s shrimp sector. wild shrimp harvesters have been calling to curb imported shrimp, which undermines their shrinking industry.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2024

She points out that most of the shellfish she harvests these days have been seeded manually by the town of Southampton and local universities, “almost like a science project,” she says. Volunteers help to hand-harvest the Shinnecock Kelp Farmers 2023-2024 sugar kelp haul on New York’s Shinnecock Bay. That’s not right.”

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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.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 3, 2024

Then, in 2015, they were mandated to put more traps on each buoy to reduce the number of end lines, or individual points of harvest, in the water. Making these changes was costly and time-consuming for lobster harvesters. By 2020, Maine lobsterers had to ensure their gear was labeled in case of a whale entanglement.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 6, 2024

Shellem began foraging five years ago, after many years of harvesting wild shellfish. As a conservationist, Shellem is careful when and where she harvests, only bringing in what is in season and in small quantities.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

When Otto began fishing in the 1960s, there were thousands of independent small-scale fishers harvesting seafood along B.C.’s Imported seafood can either mean it was harvested from global waters, or caught in the US, but exported to other countries for processing and then returned to the US. For decades, independent harvesters in B.C.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 12, 2024

Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure (RFSI) funds will support expanded capacity for food crops for activities that happen post-harvest and prior to the arrival at a retail market. RFSI “Equipment Only” applications will be accepted for purchases between $10,000 and $100,000.

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Food Tank

MARCH 8, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services; Adrian Lipscombe , The 40 Acres Project; Chaunte Lowe , President’s Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition; Amanda Masino , Huston-Tillotson University; Melanie McAfee , Barr Mansion; Kerri McClimen , Niman Ranch; Will McIntee , White House; Liz Mella , Farmers Fridge; Mike Meyer , The Farmlink (..)

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 15, 2023

mile rock-walled lagoon used for aquaculture. Although Shultz’s goal is to triple production, scaling up has its challenges: Cultivation is a year-round, labor-intensive job that involves planting 1,000 bulbs weekly, in standing water, and harvesting an equal amount.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

These authentic salmon cells are harvested and combined with several plant-based ingredients in order to lend them the flavor, texture and appearance of a traditional salmon filet. It’s not clear how an already stretched-thin aquaculture industry will rise to meet these demands, particularly with more public pushback on environmental damage.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Futures market carries have improved for all three major classes of wheat and the buy basis is widening following a bigger harvest. The larger harvest follows two years of poor production and a historic run of inverted futures markets that sapped profitability for storing wheat. A modest rebound in U.S.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

Harvesting in a spot that’s accessible fewer than 20 days per year, during negative tides, Welcome pulled a long strand of alaria, a golden ruffled kelp, from the riffles. A variety of seaweed harvested from the Gulf of Maine, including sugar kelp, sea lettuce, dulse, bladderwrack, and Irish moss.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 25, 2023

Szeliga says that aspects of catch composition, species, harvesting methods, transport means and using salt for moisture retention should be considered when discussing seafood sustainability. Conditions for fishermen are not always transparent and can be overlooked in the narratives around sustainable fish.

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Agritecture Blog

JULY 31, 2023

Example: Vertical Harvest, which develops urban vertical farms focused on employing vulnerable communities and integrating proven Dutch CEA technology. I can think of some examples in aquaculture, but I am curious if you have any other examples of this in other areas of agriculture.

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 15, 2024

Equipment Loans These loans can be used to purchase new or used farm equipment, such as tractors, harvesters, and irrigation systems Farm Improvement Loans This type of farm loan is for improving or upgrading existing farm structures or systems. They can be less scrutinized by lenders.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

Alternative Proteins Mattia Marinello, farm owner and operator, collects snails for harvest. Some of these solutions include aquaculture to help reduce the amount of wild-captured fish, as well as mushrooms , insects , and algae grown in controlled environments. Snails live in pens that measure 3m x 40m, as shown here.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

When you harvest oysters, you have to make sure you aren’t crossing over into restricted territory. Shellfish are both culturally and economically significant in coastal communities across the continent, but knowing which waters are legal and safe to harvest can present a significant obstacle. Screenshot of the ShellCast web app.

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Agritecture Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

It’s noteworthy that this leaves out several other types of companies, including cannabis-only growers and technology providers, indoor aquaculture startups, and controlled environment insect rearing. Plenty, Bowery Farming, and AppHarvest lead the way, having raised nearly 1/3 of the $7.1B fundraising amount.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2023

A quick taste test proves it true: Their crop is ready to harvest. Monocropping, the introduction of non-native species, and poor management have led the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration to declare “commercial kelp harvesting is potentially the greatest threat to long-term kelp stability nationwide.”

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The slippery, scaly skin of the Atlantic Cod is usually thrown out when the fish is harvested. As part of its management of a sustainable fishery, Iceland enforces strict quotas , and so Icelandic fishermen, limited in how many fish they can harvest in a year, have had to innovate to find profits from a smaller quantity of fish.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Since the arrival of European settlers 400 years ago, not a single season has passed without humans harvesting as much as possible from waters that are now increasingly fouled with pollution. Each Cape Cod town has a shellfish constable, who enforces shellfish bylaws and oversees aquaculture projects.) What do we do tomorrow?

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The Salmon Sisters: Harvest & Heritage by Emma Teal Laukitis and Claire Neaton The Salmon Sisters: Harvest & Heritage celebrates the seasons of Alaskan food and rituals through photography, illustrations, recipes, and traditions.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 23, 2023

Their most recent venture into hybridized farming was in 2021 with the launch of the new micro-farming system that combines aquaculture with vertical farming. Combining aquaculture and regenerative agriculture, the farm grows fish and plant crops in a closed loop system. Credit: Hudson Valley Fisheries.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Collaboration is also critical, says Tiare Boyes, a commercial fish harvester. The speakers argue that these groups, who know their communities so intimately, need support and investment so that they can carry out their work effectively.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Our conversations with amazing speakers will cover topics including strengthening water management for food systems, building environmental resilience into business, the private sector’s role in transforming water use, steps policymakers are taking to improve water conservation, and more.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Bio-fouling tunicates have severely affected mussel harvests. In 2008 , tunicates were found in Lake Tashmoo, a protected marine pond with shellfish aquaculture operations located on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 15, 2023

Assembled in response to new aquaculture sites planned off the coast of California, the gravestones were brought to the offices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Long Beach, California, in April by activists keen to register their discontent. established aquaculture as a national policy priority.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Because the book explains not just how to conserve one’s garden produce but also when to plant, harvest, and prune, as well as whether to cross-pollinate, it serves as a how-to guide for gardening novices—and a beneficial resource for anyone looking to understand their garden better, from planting to plating.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 22, 2024

It was probably for good reason,” says Chris Sherman, CEO of Island Creek Oysters , an aquaculture business based in Duxbury, Massachusetts. Sherman is no stranger himself to the environmental and economic challenges of running an aquaculture business. The same is true in aquaculture.

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Food Tank

MAY 17, 2024

Harvesting, processing, transporting, cooking, and serving food can be hard on people’s bodies—and their mental health and well-being. Fishers and those working in aquaculture also face long hours working in isolation, exposed to harsh environmental conditions.

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