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Profile: Grayson LandCare – Incubating Rural Innovation

Daily Yonder

Pridgen says that this garden is a “food forest” where the harvest is donated to serve the community. Grayson LandCare Members bring in a harvest from the Permaculture Garden. Photo provided by Grayson LandCare) Grayson Landcare also acts as an incubator for rural innovation.

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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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Project Director

RR2CS

Rural Routes to Climate Solutions (RR2CS) shines a spotlight on the climate solutions that Alberta’s farmers, ranchers and rural communities can benefit from. About us: At RR2CS, we’re on a mission to cultivate climate solutions in rural Alberta. Afterall, Rural Routes is in the solutions business.

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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. Harvesting and Processing Your Tea Congratulations on growing your own tea!

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Op-ed: Big Ag Touts Its Climate Strengths, While Awash in Fossil Fuels

Civil Eats

From planting to harvest, farm machinery such as tractors and combines burn diesel fuel to churn out the raw materials for our food system. The freight trucks, locomotives, and inland barges that transport bulk harvested commodity crops and livestock significantly add to agriculture’s CO2 emissions.

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Cooking Kudzu: The Invasive Species Is on the Menu in the South

Civil Eats

From architecture teams experimenting with it as a sustainable building material, to clinical applications treating binge-drinking and chefs harvesting it as a wild edible, environmental journalist Ayurella Horn-Muller investigates how kudzu’s notorious reputation in America is gradually being cast aside in favor of its promise.

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Our 2023 Food and Farming Holiday Book Gift Guide

Civil Eats

But it wasn’t until he became the beverage director at Farm and Fisherman Tavern in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, that he fully combined his passions for ethnobotany and mixology. It reads as a love letter to his land, his herd, and his rural community and a manifesto on how and why to farm in a way that protects them all.

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