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What’s Left Out of the Conversation When it Comes to Urban Agriculture

Food Tank

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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The Shrimp on Your Table Has a Dark History

Civil Eats

He didn’t travel to the rural area for any of his job responsibilities; he was there to document injustice. 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.

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Rescuing Kelp Through Science

Civil Eats

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

Modern Farmer

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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Is It Possible to Talk About All Things Food in One Day? We’re Doing It Next Week!

Food Tank

Here’s who will be joining us (alphabetically): Bleu Adams , IndigeHub; Joke Aerts , Tony’s Open Chain, Tony’s Chocolonely; Robert Nathan Allen , Little Herds; Daisy Berg , New Seasons Market; Jayson Berryhill , Wholechain; Carmen Blackwood , EarthRise LLC; Gary Blackwood , NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Keliann Blazek , Special Assistant (..)

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Industry Ag News 9/22

Agwired

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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5 Critical Agriculture Topics to Incorporate Into Any Climate-Related Event

Agritecture Blog

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.