Civil Eats

MAY 21, 2024

Underpaid pickers don’t show up, and coffee cherries rot on the ground, wasting the harvest. Some harvests last for six months instead of the standard two, and some are shockingly short. Or harvests are compressed into a two-week period, and the coffee mills can’t handle the tsunami of cherries waiting to be processed.

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Yield Production Harvester Harvest 143

ATTRA

MAY 7, 2024

By Audrey Kolde, NCAT Agriculture Specialist Tea, a beverage enjoyed worldwide, is a subject of growing interest among specialty crop farmers in the Gulf South. The journey of tea from seed to cup involves harvesting, withering, rolling, oxidizing, and drying. Harvesting and Processing Your Tea Congratulations on growing your own tea!

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Harvester Harvest Harvesting Cultivation 40

CalCAN

AUGUST 10, 2023

Even when our trees have gone through extended periods of time during harvest without water they have never reached permanent wilting point or defoliated. Anna Larson, Christine Gemperle and legislative director Mike Sharif. Yet, this equipment is usually needed only a few days out of the year.

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Orchard Farming Farming Harvester 52

Agritecture Blog

APRIL 7, 2023

Neighborhood volunteers choose what to grow, plan events and share harvested crops with food banks, nonprofit and faith-based meal programs and neighbors. The forests also serve as gathering spaces, contribute to rainwater harvesting and help beautify neighborhoods. Credit: Boston Food Forest Coalition.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 5, 2024

Fitted out with long legs and a digestive system that thrives on fibrous, spiky, thorny and salty plants, they are designed for those parts of the world too dry for crop farming, places like the Gobi and Sahara deserts. In fact, until very recently they were not kept on farms at all.

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Livestock Food Forage Cattle 75

Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This landscape doesn’t strike you immediately as a place where you could be growing the best crops in the world. The healthiest olive oil The crops here are olives – specifically, olives pressed for oil – and the measure we are talking about is the health and nutritional quality of olive oil.

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Production Farming Farming Cultivation 52

Modern Farmer

JULY 13, 2023

Although some of Napa’s grapes had already been harvested, a huge portion of that year’s Cabernet Sauvignon, the wine for which the area is best known for and which can sell for thousands of dollars a bottle given the right year and the right winery, was lost. They’re well pruned. But those numbers are lower than they should be.

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Harvester Harvest Harvesting Processing 96

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 6, 2023

It’s unclear whether this marketing inspired either John Bajema’s third son, Dingeman, who started a holly farm along the Columbia Gorge after a career as a schoolteacher, or Dingeman’s son Ken, who spent many weekends and evenings as a teenager helping his father harvest holly branches during the cold, wet winters. Ornamental holly starts.

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Ecology Seeding Acre Processing 127

Civil Eats

JUNE 29, 2023

” Center: Ramon Torres prunes blueberry bushes at the Tierra y Libertad cooperative. Some of the first year’s crop was lost to cold weather, so today the plants begin in a greenhouse long before being replanted outside. Then we harvest in September. We planted and grew corn, and then we’d harvest it.

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Greenhouse Farming Farming Food 52

Civil Eats

MARCH 12, 2025

Joan was instrumental in some of my thinking for my book Bitter Harvest , and when I went to the Ross School to build a healthy, nutritious, delicious school food program, Joan graciously gave of her time and energy to teach and educate our team. I was thrilled when she agreed to write the foreword to my 2000 book Sharing the Harvest.

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Food Ecology Farming Farming 134

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The guide is especially helpful in its specifics, literally down to the baseboards used to construct the family’s functional barnhouse and greenhouse, and it details how to get the most out of popular crops in micro spaces. Mixed greens, tomatoes, snap peas, hemp, and more—even for this black thumb, Hartman makes it seem doable.

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Food Farming Farming Seeding 145

NASDA

JANUARY 16, 2025

Custom Harvesters, Inc. Thomas Livestock Co Inc Tillamook County Creamery Association TN Feed & Grain Association U.S. Apple Association U.S. Beet Sugar Association U.S. Canola Association U.S. Hemp Roundtable U.S. Pea and Lentil Trade Association U.S.

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Grain Seeding Ruralism Poultry 147

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

On the drive, she recalled saying, “We got to get the crops!” Research shows produce begins to lose its nutrients as soon as it is harvested, making fresh food the best choice. It’s that hard time to let things kind of be without kind of aggressively pruning, trying to make things pretty. We just got to get it.”

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