Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

It’s a tedious but worthwhile process: drying mushrooms, vegetables, and herbs, making pickles and slaw, and preserving garlic blossoms and coriander seeds in airtight jars before these ingredients vanish with the end of the season. They source according to the schedule of the crops growing nearby, the waning and waxing seasons.

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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. But not just any of the 124 known coffee species.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Currently, he’s looking into a research forest in central Indiana with a crop of white oak. These trees have good bolting, they’re strong and their seeds are excellent genetic material. In Indiana here, I might want to collect seed from Tennessee or Kentucky, to look south and maybe slightly west, where it’s more drought tolerant.”

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Ranching Acre Forestry Processing 140

Civil Eats

MAY 21, 2024

Coffee plants usually take three to four years to produce their first yield, making the crop a gamble at startup, but rising global demand may provide the incentive. Coffee worldwide is increasingly grown alongside other crops, such as avocados, plantains, cacao, sugarcane, nuts, citrus, and spices. Mexico has nearly 1.5

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Yield Production Harvester Harvest 126

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The crop itself is hardly new. But the varieties now springing up in places that have long been dominated by corn, wheat and soybeans aren’t meant to be used for seed. 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.

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Textiles Supply Chain Processing Harvester 117

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

Here, in the small community of El Pedregal de San Juan, in the state of Hidalgo, Guzman says she was amazed by the rain-fed milpa system of growing corn, wheat, and squash that her uncles still maintained, using seeds that have been in her family for generations. “I I was just so enamored,” she says.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Industrial Agriculture 111

Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

—Matthew Wheeland Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography By David Gilbert Along the slopes of a volcano in Indonesia, a group of Minangkabau Indigenous agricultural workers began quietly reclaiming their land in 1993, growing cinnamon trees, chilies, eggplants, and other foods on the edges of plantations.

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Food Farming Farming Forage 124

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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Agriculture Agriculture Food Ranching 93