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20 Food Systems Reads that Will Inspire You this Summer

Food Tank

Rethink your relationship with gardening in Tama Matsuoka Wong’s Into the Weeds: How to Garden Like a Forager , or learn about food systems innovations in the face of climate change in Food Systems of the Future. He explores how cultivating indigenous trees and investing in new, modified tree crops can produce food, medicine, money, and jobs.

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Making ‘Weeds’ Part of the Food System

Modern Farmer

And so, even though they grew abundantly without being planted, most of them just went to the compost pile. Not only does she mention them, she lists them as one of the top species to forage. Wong is a professional forager, finding, growing and collecting edible plants, many of which are considered weeds by the general population.

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20 Sustainable Sips to Cheer For

Food Tank

It also reveals that the production cultivation of barley and hops is responsible for most of the environmental impact of beer. The company composts all fruit scraps, tea, herbs, cultures, and paper towels while also saving over 1,100 gallons of water per day through their recapture system. In 2016, Rhum J.M Rise & Win Brewing Co.,

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Could Dry-Farming Wheat in San Diego Seed a Local Grain Economy?

Civil Eats

But intensive cultivation and lack of variety led to challenges in productivity. percent, and it’s concentrated in the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys and used mostly for animal forage. In good rain years, it can yield a harvest; in dryer years, it can be used for forage.” feet high in this exceptionally rainy year.

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Farmer Conservation Stories: Why Inflation Reduction Act Funding Must Remain Focused on Climate Change

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

After heavy grazing, a mixed summer forage is still building soil. She also employs cover crops, composting, and reduced tillage. The mix includes sorghum-sudangrass, sunn hemp, cowpeas, and millet. Photo credit: Cathy Day Editor’s Note: This post is the second in a two-part series. We appreciate your work!

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‘An Insane Amount of Water’: What Climate Change Means For California’s Biggest Dairy District

Modern Farmer

His 580-acre farm grows enough forage to supply the herd, so “I’m good with where I’m at,” he adds. Orchards, vines and other perennials cultivated as long-term investments have steadily replaced ephemeral crops such as tomatoes and cotton, which are far less costly to sacrifice or replace.

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What to Know About Wildfire and Food Safety

Caff

Many agencies have established minimum thresholds for pollutants of concern to human health, livestock, forage, soil, and water. Keep flammables away from cultivation and livestock holding areas as well as from freshwater and/or irrigation sources to minimize the potential for drift.

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