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20 Sustainable Sips to Cheer For

Food Tank

Kernza® is a deeply rooted perennial grain harvested from intermediate wheatgrass and provided to the breweries by A-Frame Farm in Minnesota. “By Proof & Company, Singapore In partnership with ecoSPIRITS , Proof & Company distributes 14 of its spirits in Singapore using circular packaging. for a new beer initiative.

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Almonds are Under Threat. The Key to Saving Them Could Be in the Soil

Modern Farmer

He’s tinkered with different irrigation systems, moving from a sub-surface drip setup to his current above-ground micro-sprayer, which he says has the best distribution of water with the least waste. Plus, there are multiple uses for each nut harvested. The shells are used in cosmetics, as bedding for livestock and in biofuels.

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Climate savior or ‘Monsanto of the sea’?

Food Environment and Reporting Network

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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Can Biden’s climate-smart agriculture program live up to the hype?

Food Environment and Reporting Network

These practices include reducing or eliminating tilling of soil, planting “cover crops” that grow during the off-season and are not harvested, improving how farmers use fertilizer and manure, and planting trees. Here, manure is put into a digester to be turned into biofuel at Vanguard Renewables in Haverhill, Massachusetts, on Jan.

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A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. Then billions of crabs died.

Food Environment and Reporting Network

slide-intro --> A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 170 MILLION MONTHLY UNIQUE VIEWERS GLOBALLY Grist This article is part of FERN’s series The Biodiversity Crisis /.slide-intro Then billions of crabs died.

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The whole dam truth

Food Environment and Reporting Network

slide-intro --> The ranching industry’s toxic grass problem By Robert Langellier , March 27, 2024 Buzzkill By Dan Charles , December 18, 2023 How mushrooms can prevent megafires By Stephen Robert Miller , July 10, 2023 A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. Then billions of crabs died.

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The deep roots of Mexico’s trade dispute with U.S. over GMO corn

Food Environment and Reporting Network

slide-intro --> A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 170 MILLION MONTHLY UNIQUE VIEWERS GLOBALLY This article is part of FERN’s series The Biodiversity Crisis /.slide-intro Then billions of crabs died.

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