Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Instead of growing rice in flooded paddies to prevent weeds from overtaking the crop, SRI farmers treat rice like a vegetable, irrigating it as needed and using other weed control methods. Opala says plantation owners were willing to pay higher prices for dragging these expert farmers across the Atlantic into North American slavery.

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Historians know that turkey and corn were part of the first Thanksgiving , when Wampanoag peoples shared a harvest meal with the pilgrims of Plymouth plantation in Massachusetts. The first Europeans who reached the Americas were shocked at the abundant food crops they found. This story was originally published by The Conversation.

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Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

But the crop-free plantings have had another effect, Farquhar explained. Additionally, the diversity of Farquhar’s crops and the chemical-free nature of his farm also attracted and supported small mammals, he said. “We For example, bats are voracious predators of insects that damage crops. farmers $3.7 billion annually.

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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. Certain farming practices and crop varieties can help farms adapt to the erratic, intensified weather patterns and disasters shaking the foundation of U.S. Take chocolate , for instance.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 22, 2024

Community gardens like Baltimore’s Plantation Park Heights Urban Farm provide a wide range of benefits to the community, including providing fresh produce in areas with few places to buy fresh fruits and vegetables and having a positive impact on young people’s lives. Our study, published Jan.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Theyre as fertile as can be. The history of how this happenedhow one of the countrys most fertile farming regions became a knot of poverty, hunger, and racial injusticeis complicated and painful. Processing the crops in the Delta would funnel even more money into the regional economy. Grocery stores are scarce.

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

We must not forget that at that time the economic options for Black Americans were scarcely more than sharecropping on former plantations or brutal industrial labor in northern cities; political and social freedoms were systematically denied. Colonel Allensworth envisioned having a Black community where people would be free and independent.

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ATTRA

MARCH 19, 2024

Bruddah began lamenting to me that he can’t afford to work or fertilize his land, that the local government has made promises ensuring water access for irrigation, but he is always left waiting and wondering when the water might come.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It’s threatened by climate change, by a deadly fungal disease that has devastated crops, and by risky farming practices. In Latin America, which produces around 60 percent of the world’s coffee crop, this figure could be as high as 88 percent. Coffee is under attack from all sides.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

Date palm plantations and orchards cover the eastern Coachella Valley to the north. the Salton Sea is also suffering from eutrophication, or loss of oxygen, due largely to algae blooms fueled, in part, by fertilizer runoff. 1 commodity for the last 64 years. The sea is twice as salty as the ocean.) What Will it Take to Spur Change?

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The crop itself is hardly new. As textile mills began to proliferate, the cotton grown on Southern plantations, which relied on the labor of enslaved people, proved to be a cheaper option than flax. These days, the flax grown for linen is an industrial crop. The latter tended to fare better in the North.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

Guzman’s parents gave up caring for the soil and growing food that nourished them in pursuit of greater opportunities that involved growing crops for export and other people’s profit. And today, even when the soil stays on the ground, we’re actively destroying it through the use of pesticides, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers, and more.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 29, 2025

Together, they left the plantation of Richard M. Theyd also seen advertisements promoting the land as vast, vacant, and fertile. The Potawatomi shared their hunts, helped us build our first homes (dugouts), taught us how to plant crops, and gave us seeds to grow. Johnson, who was vice president under President Martin Van Buren.

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 140

Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Power of State Policymaking The Cohort for Rural Opportunity and Prosperity (CROP)—a subset of SiX’s Agriculture and Food Systems program—currently includes elected officials from 43 states who are positioned to advance socially and ecologically responsible rural, agricultural, and food policy.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Share this This Story’s Impact 100 million global monthly unique visitors Business Insider Two of the largest palm oil plantations in Peru are located on the west side of the Ucayali River, which flows from the Andes to the Amazon. ” But the creation of the plantations came at a steep price.

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