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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.