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The Importance of Tropical Aquatic Environments in Aquaculture

Agric4profits

The article provides a general understanding of tropical aquatic environments and their role in agriculture and aquaculture. It defines tropical aquatic environments and explains the different types of these environments, which are important for supporting biodiversity and providing essential benefits to people.

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Stopping Aquaculture Rope Pollution at the Source

Modern Farmer

After asking around, Shaw realized that these little yellow ropes came from longline oyster aquaculture, an off-bottom growing technique that is particularly useful in areas where the bottom can’t support bottom-grown oysters due to the prevalence of burrowing shrimp. Longline aquaculture uses yellow polypropylene rope.

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20 Children’s Books Celebrating Our Food and Farming Systems

Food Tank

Highlighting urban gardens, aquaculture oyster farms, food forests, and more, this book shows the varied ways that farmers can sustainably feed their communities. With the help of a neighbor, the three children mix manure, spread, mulch, and sow seeds while uniting neighbors and demonstrating the power of community.

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Rescuing Kelp Through Science

Civil Eats

Here, over the next 45 days, the spores will be carefully cultivated into seed for farmers and scientists to outplant in the ocean. A Market Worth Millions If kelp forests disappear, so would wild-harvested seed for farmed kelp. American farmers can expect to pay about $1 a foot for string inoculated with kelp seed.

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Best Practices for Managing Plant Nutrients

Farmbrite

Finding the right location to add nutrients in various contexts (gardening, farming, aquaculture, etc.) You can apply a small amount of readily available nutrients near the seed to kickstart germination.You will usually apply with water. Banding: Apply fertilizer in concentrated strips near the seed row, minimizing nutrient loss.

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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 Long Reach of the Walmart-Walton Empire

Civil Eats

Today, Walmart’s public relations efforts combine with the activities of Walton charities and investments in a sprawling buffet of corporate promising, donations, and seed capital directed at a range of social and environmental issues affected by the largest retailer in the world. In 2021, their collective spending on charity totaled $969.8