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Post-Planting Maintenance and Services of A Tree Crop Plantation

Agric4profits

Post-planting maintenance is essential to ensure the healthy establishment and growth of tree crops. Fertilization ensures trees receive necessary nutrients for optimal growth.

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Vanilla is in Crisis. Producers in Mexico Are Not Giving Up

Modern Farmer

He is working on the plantation,” his wife announces. As we stroll through the plantation, Huberto’s son nudges the oranges on a nearby tree, handing a few to us to enjoy along the way. Francisco Mendoza and his daughters at the vanilla plantation. The oldest vanilla plants at Juan Martinez’ plantation are six years old.

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

In a county that was intentionally poisonedand a world suffering from a changing climatehe is reviving the soil under his feet by transitioning away from pesticide-dependent row crops like tobacco to industrial hemp, which is known to sequester carbon and remediate soil, and using earth-friendly organic and regenerative methods.

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In Hawai‘i, Restoring Kava Helps Sustain Native Food Culture

Civil Eats

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. Along with its ceremonial and medicinal role, kava was also an important social drink.

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Southern Black Farmers Sow Rice and Reconciliation

Civil Eats

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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21 New Books to Inspire the Movement for Sustainable Food Systems

Food Tank

Silvohorticulture : A Growers Guide to Integrating Trees into Crops by Ben Raskin and Andy Dibben Agroforestry can provide a range of benefits to a farm or garden, including improved soil, pest and nutrient management, biodiversity, and optimized yields. The Kidney and the Cane: Planetary Health and Plantation Labor in Nicaragua by Alex M.

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Returning the ‘Three Sisters’ – Corn, Beans and Squash – to Native American Farms Nourishes People, Land and Cultures

Daily Yonder

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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