Remove Construction Remove Crop Rotation Remove Cultivation
article thumbnail

Should We Be Farming in the Desert?

Civil Eats

Yet carrots, cauliflower, sweet onions, honeydew, broccoli, and alfalfa all grow here, incongruous crops that spread across half a million acres of cultivated land. By most measures, the Imperial Valley is not a great place to grow food. Ronald Leimgruber farms 3,500 of those acres.

Farming 142
article thumbnail

Breaking the Chain: CIEL’s Battle to Unravel the Fossil Fuel Grip on Our Food System

Food Tank

For example, the agrochemical company, Yara, is constructing a CCS plant with ExxonMobil and TotalEnergies next to its ammonia plant. Collaborating with farmers, CIEL promotes natural agroecological practices such as crop rotation, legume cultivation, and the use of beneficial insects, fungi, and organic manure instead of chemical additives.

Food 64
article thumbnail

Envisioning a Greener Future with Nikita Shumeiko

Agritecture Blog

This umbrella term includes topics such as biophilic design, an approach to architecture that seeks to connect building occupants more closely to nature; net-zero buildings , constructing new or retrofitting existing buildings for energy efficiency , passive house design ; and so on and so forth.