Food Tank

JULY 2, 2024

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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Modern Farmer

MARCH 11, 2024

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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Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

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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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

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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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

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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Caff

JUNE 13, 2023

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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