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To Solve Climate and Food Challenges, We Need Ambitious Ideas Like These

Food Tank

How can gardeners and eaters use traditional wisdom and foraging to save money and save the planet? What challenges will new farmers face in a climatically uncertain future? How do racial and class inequities help giant corporations keep small businesses in the shadows?

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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 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. Food Tank is compiling a list of books that will engage, educate, and inspire you this summer.

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20 Sustainable Sips to Cheer For

Food Tank

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. The certified B-Corp brewery composts all organic waste and is working to reclaim runoff for crop irrigation. In 2016, Rhum J.M Rise & Win Brewing Co.,

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PASTURE INSURANCE

The Lunatic Farmer

This is called the Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) program and has apparently been in place for 15 years at least. I can think of other things more important than water, like controlling the grazing, putting on compost, but let’s take this sentence at face value and play along.

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Good Goats Make Good Neighbors

Civil Eats

Happy Goat also helps recycle food waste from local school cafeterias, using it to create compost for small school gardens and its farm. We’re building topsoil, we’re sequestering carbon, we’re improving the forage, the trees, the grasses,” says Fouch, who designed the farm and is also an associate educator with the Savory Institute.

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

Civil Eats

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.” Ernie Klemm, forage manager at Konyn Dairy in San Pasqual Valley, has been dry-farming grains for 50 years—as food for cattle.

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