Construction Harvester Orchard 
Modern Farmer
MARCH 29, 2024
Across the Phoenix metro area, citrus trees sag under the weight of more produce than homeowners can harvest and use. Part of the problem lies in the city’s construction. Thousands of pounds of fruit go to waste every year while more than half a million area residents struggle with food insecurity. The Homegrown team.
Caff
OCTOBER 22, 2024
They’ve taken a somewhat experimental approach in the orchard to see what grows best, and found that jujubes, apricots, and pomegranates thrived while apples and chestnuts didn’t do well due to the heat of the region and plums were too susceptible to disease.
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Modern Farmer
DECEMBER 15, 2023
Originally constructed by Native Hawaiians hundreds of years before colonization, the effort resurrected a 1.3-mile Along with taro patches, the triangular swaths encompassed a range of terrain, from upland timber forests to rain-fed crop fields and orchards in the lowlands. mile rock-walled lagoon used for aquaculture.
Agritecture Blog
OCTOBER 13, 2022
Sweetland tends, harvests and sells the blueberries, and shares profits with the landowner. We realized because of the way they’re harvested, we didn’t need a lot of clearance for equipment, but we really needed to protect the soils and protect the plants during the construction phase.” But they all recovered quite well.”
Modern Farmer
DECEMBER 6, 2023
The first holly to invade Stokes’ study area sprouted in 1966, during a residential construction boom north of the park, where ornamental holly still grows today. Plant a holly orchard and let nature do the work for you,” read one brochure. Wood rounds gathered, Stokes and his assistants counted their tree rings to discern their age.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
JANUARY 17, 2024
Focus on Solutions Although there are clear, negative impacts for agriculture, the agriculture chapter effectively lays out the ways in which agriculture can respond constructively to increasing challenges. the Osage Nation’s community orchard. Many of these activities have long cultural traditions.
Civil Eats
JUNE 29, 2023
Torres had been a city boy, raised in Guadalajara, and he was the son of a construction worker. Ramon Torres My father was a construction worker and my mom cleaned houses. Then we harvest in September. Ana Lopez inspects a tree seedling in a Tierra y Libertad orchard. We also had a business on the weekends selling tacos.
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