Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Kava has endured a long history of adversity, said Lakea Trask, a Hawaiian farmer and local activist who cultivates kava and other Native crops for Kanaka Kava , his familys farm-to-table restaurant in Kailua-Kona, on the Big Island. For Trask, kava is also central to healing Hawaiis post-plantation scars.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The majority of the world’s cocoa is sourced from West Africa, often harvested by children on vast plantations linked to widespread deforestation. Rubba visits all the farms that supply the restaurant, asking about their crop rotations , soil health practices, and how the farmworkers are treated. “I Even when grown in the U.S.,

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 29, 2025

Together, they left the plantation of Richard M. The early settlers had been promised soil so rich theyd be able to throw seed on the ground and crops would grow, but the soil, weather, and climate were much different and less forgiving than what they expected. Johnson, who was vice president under President Martin Van Buren.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

The Illinois-based Saving Tomorrow’s Agricultural Resources (STAR) Program sets standards for regenerative practices such as crop rotation, tillage, and nutrient applications. And finally, the weekend gathering highlighted yet another perk to regenerative farming: “mind-blowing” produce cultivated in rich healthy soil. “It

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