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20 Sustainable Sips to Cheer For

Food Tank

According to a study published in the Journal of Cleaner Production and Beverages , the production of alcoholic beverages can contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, land degradation, and water depletion. It also reveals that the production cultivation of barley and hops is responsible for most of the environmental impact of beer.

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

Food Tank

Many utilize regenerative growing and composting to maintain healthy crop life cycles from seed to harvest and foster healthy soils. They grow healthy, seasonal food as well as culturally relevant options familiar to the diverse populations they serve such as bissap (a beverage made from hibiscus) and callaloo (a dish made with leafy greens).

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The Unsung Heroes of the Plants We Drink: Tea

ATTRA

By Audrey Kolde, NCAT Agriculture Specialist Tea, a beverage enjoyed worldwide, is a subject of growing interest among specialty crop farmers in the Gulf South. The journey of tea from seed to cup involves harvesting, withering, rolling, oxidizing, and drying. Cultivation Techniques Are you excited to grow some tea?

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Profile: Grayson LandCare – Incubating Rural Innovation

Daily Yonder

Instead of applying industrial chemicals to amend soils or introducing irrigation to regulate crop growth, permaculture gardening is an adaptive, self-regenerative, and diversity-driven approach in food production and pollinator habitat cultivation. Grayson LandCare Members bring in a harvest from the Permaculture Garden.

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Climate Solutions for the Future of Coffee

Civil Eats

Underpaid pickers don’t show up, and coffee cherries rot on the ground, wasting the harvest. Some harvests last for six months instead of the standard two, and some are shockingly short. Or harvests are compressed into a two-week period, and the coffee mills can’t handle the tsunami of cherries waiting to be processed.

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Project Director

RR2CS

About us: At RR2CS, we’re on a mission to cultivate climate solutions in rural Alberta. Phase 2 is currently underway working with agricultural producers and other stakeholders like extension groups, colleges and research institutes, agricultural inputs companies, government and food and beverage companies.

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Coffee as we know it is in danger. Can we breed a better cup?

Agritecture Blog

Workers dump harvested coffee cherries into a truck on a farm in Brazil on June 2. Our reliance on just two coffee species to brew the drink we love could threaten the future of this delicious beverage. Our reliance on just two coffee species to brew the drink we love could threaten the future of this delicious beverage.

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